Fun stuff to do with books:)

Just because you don’t enjoy reading a good book,……. doesn’t mean there aren’t other uses for them...we just adore these images of book sculptures found on the website “offbeatearth.com”.

Richard Ruth Reading

This summer Richard Ruth, Head of LSAD is retiring. We will miss him greatly. We asked him a few bookish questions before he said farewell though! What was your favourite childhood book? “Swiss Family Robinson” by Johann David Wyss What was the book that had the most influence on you in your college days? “Design for the real world” by Victor Papanek If you were stranded on a desert Island what book would you like to have with you? “Goodbye to all that” by Robert Graves What part do you think the library has played in College Life here in LSAD? Nothing but praise for the library. It has been a major catalyst in putting LSAD/LIT to the forefront in art and design education What lovely answers Richard!..and we certainly hope you will be a regular visitor back to the LSAD Library!

Database Trial of "ECONOMIST HISTORICAL ARCHIVE 1843-2003

The Economist Historical Archive 1843 – 2003
L.I.T. Library are delighted to announce trial access to the Economist Historical Archive 1843 - 2003. This archive delivers a complete searchable copy of every issue of "The Economist" spanning 160 years. The database incorporates multiple search indexes, access to full colour images, exportable financial tables and a gallery of front covers highlighting a key topic of each week.
The trial is accessible via the library homepage. Please choose the “database trials” link and follow the instructions for access. The trial runs until May 20th, 2009.

REVIEW IF LIBRARY IRELAND WEEK

Limerick Institute of Technology kicked off a week of activities with the Launch of Library Ireland Week for the Limerick Region. The event was held in LIT’s Millennium Theatre and was attended by local and regional Librarians, members of the Institute and members of Limerick’s Business Community. In keeping with the theme of 2009 Library Ireland Week, “Libraries: Inspiring Entrepreneurship” and incorporating International Women’s Day, the guest speaker was Dorothy Quinn, President of “Network Limerick” an organisation for women in business, the professions and the arts. Dorothy spoke highly about the benefit of both academic and Public Libraries for any entrepreneurs, of the vital role that Libraries play in our communities, and finished with some anecdotes about her own personal experiences.
Throughout Library Week the Librarians gave tutorials on databases, bibliographic software and search engines. A stand was placed on the LIT Streetscape, where Librarians were at hand to offer advice and information on Library resources (while also giving away a few generously donated promotional gifts!)
The Library also held some competitions, a library quiz, which was a great success as the simple multiple choice questions encouraged many applicants while also helping to reinforce some Library Information. Another competition, “Write a Limerick about the Library” asked the patrons to compose a Limerick beginning with the line; “The Library is a wonderful space…”, the amount of entries was staggering and we’ve had great fun reading them. Here is one of our winners:
“The Library is a wonderful space.
I borrow my books by the case
Someday – for the crack…
I’ll bring them all back
In a truck with a smile on my face”
All in all a busy week was had by both staff and patrons and now we face into the second half of the academic year with renewed gusto!

ENDNOTE TRAINING

As part of the celebrations for Library Ireland Week LIT Library are pleased to announce Endnote 'Tame your bibliography' training sessions on the following dates:

Thurdsay 5-3-2008 Library Training Room Moylish 2.30PM to 3.30PM
Friday 6-3-2008 Library Training Room Moylish 1-2PM

You may book a session or if you would like to just 'drop in' on the day that fine too.

EndNote is the leading bibliographic software program on the market today. It can be used to search for literature, develop a personal library of references, and create and format citations for papers and publications.

To book a session please contact:

Padraig Kirby BA (Hons) HdipLIS
LNSS Librarian Project Coordinator

5 NEW DATABASES!

L.I.T. library are delighted to announce the introduction of 5 new online databases, 4 of which are Ebsco databases acquired in association with the IRel initiative. These databases cover a wide range of subject disciplines, and will be of benefit to all L.I.T.’s student body. The 4 Ebsco databases are as follows: 1. Academic Source Premier – “The world’s largest scholarly, fulltext multidiscipline database..”. Coverage includes biology, chemistry, engineering, I.T., physics and psychology to name but a few. 2. Business Source Premier - “The industry’s most popular business research database”. Its extensive fulltext content includes, all business disciplines, as well as, market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and S.W.O.T. analyses 3. Regional Business News – A supplemental database to customers of Business Source Premier with access to over 50 regional business publications U.S.A.). 4. UK/ Ireland Reference Centre – A database of British and Irish reference sources, including encyclopaedias, photos and maps.
And finally ,our fifth new database 5. PubMed Central, a free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature, provided by the United States, National Institutes of Health (N.I.H.)
All these new databases are available online at http://litlintra.lit.ie/LibraryServices/ElecResources.html
Sarah.landy@lit.ie

LIBRARY QUIZ FOR LIBRARY IRELAND WEEK

Test your library knowledge

The LIT Library is holding a Quiz hosted on Moodle as part of our Library Week Activities. Great Prizes to be won. All you have to do is log on and answer some simple multiple choice questions related to the LIT library.
For a copy of the LSAD quiz, come to our Clare Street Library issue desk. Go on, you know you want to…….