Good book for the weekend that's in it!

DANGEROUS STORMS

Due to the dangerous weather conditions the library will close at 5pm today.....apologies for inconvenience...BE SAFE OUT THERE!

launch of Artists Books in LSAD Library

Most splendid this evening. Great talk by Denis from WABE and great introduction by Dawn West. These books can be looked at all this week in the Library. Talk on Artists books tomorrow in the Church Gallery at 11am - open to all. We'll be in the front row!

lsad Library Exhibition to celebrate Library Ireland Week 2013

LSAD are delighted to be part of this exciting installed in our library from the 11th until the 22nd of November 2013 as part of the events organized for ‘Library Ireland Week’ 2013. Do come along to see it. Mysterious labyrinths, sparkling nuggets, obscure caves, alphabets ... where do these enigmatic marvels come from? From living organisms, observed at the microscopic level, and from the work of France’s most visionary writer, Jules Verne. The panels on display are a superimposition of scientific photographs from the Inserm image bank and old engravings illustrating the writings of Jules Verne. These striking images are the creation of Eric Dehausse, an iconographer at Inserm.

ANNE CULHANE…….LSAD Library legend gives us the lowdown.

What was your favourite childhood book? I can remember reading ‘The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe’ by C.S. Lewis and being so enchanted by it - that as soon as I would finish it – I would start again at the beginning. I bought it again lately just for the memories and was delighted when my daughter read it and was just as enchanted as I had been. What books had the most influence on you in your college days? ‘Heroes’ by John Pilcher, without a doubt. This book opened my mind to the struggles of people throughout the world. We are carried along on his journey as he traces his family history back to a number of countries and races including Ireland and Russia. He explores the reasons many of his ancestors were forced to emigrate in difficult and often brutal conditions. The resulting stories are at once harrowing, engrossing and illuminating. Do you have any memory or story about your college library? When I was an art student (many, many years ago !) There wasn’t any library!!! (Shock! Horror!) I joined both city and county public libraries and found them to be great. I always saw libraries as a haven where I felt at home. No wonder then, that I eventually landed up working in one and being perfectly happy to do so! If you were stranded on a desert Island what book would you like to have with you? It would either be the Bible or An Anthology of Irish Poetry. I would not consider myself to be overly religious but I think there are many lessons to be learned from the Bible. Plus, any book that mentions wine 228 times has to be good! I would also be happy with an anthology of Irish poetry. Poetry is music that is spoken and every time of reading or speaking can bring a different interpretation.

Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney 1939 – 2013 Bogland for T. P. Flanagan We have no prairies To slice a big sun at evening-- Everywhere the eye concedes to Encroaching horizon, Is wooed into the Cyclops' eye Of a tarn. Our unfenced country Is bog that keeps crusting Between the sights of the sun. They've taken the skeleton Of the Great Irish Elk Out of the peat, set it up An astounding crate full of air. Butter sunk under More than a hundred years Was recovered salty and white. The ground itself is kind, black but-ter Melting and opening underfoot, Missing its last definition By millions of years. They'll never dig coal here, Only the waterlogged trunks Of great firs, soft as pulp. Our pioneers keep striking Inwards and downwards, Every layer they strip Seems camped on before. The bogholes might be Atlantic seepage. The wet centre is bottomless.

LIT Library ASPIRE towards inclusive education in Europe

From July 29th to August 15th in the Absolute Hotel, Limerick, LIT Library proudly hosted the visit of academics and practitioners from Armenia and Georgia who were participating in curriculum training as part of the ASPIRE European Union funded TEMPUS project. ASPIRE (Access to Society for People with Individual Requirements) which aims to develop access to inclusive education in Armenia and Georgia. The project which is led by Ilia State University, Tbilisi Georgia also involves Edge Hill University (UK), The Pyramid Group (Germany), Technical University Of Kosice (Slovakia) as well as 5 institutions in Armenia and 4 institutions from Georgia. This TEMPUS project will promote and develop access to Inclusive education, to social integration and to non-discrimination treatment of those with special needs in education in accordance with the Bologna Process and United Nations criteria. This will initiate the right of individuals with special needs to access education, to enjoy the right of participation in everyday society and to combat discrimination against them in society by instilling awareness and acceptance in society, as in line with Bologna Process and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Pictured: Jerald Cavanagh- Institute Librarian,Padraig Kirby LIT, with project participants from Armenia, Georgia, Germany and Slovakia