MORE TRIALS...... not that kind of Trial, it's a Library!

NexisDirect – Database trial

Students and staff....The latest interface from Lexis Nexis is now being trialled at L.I.T. NexisDirect allows more efficient and user friendly access to all the resources of the Business and News Database Nexis Professional. Resources include company profiles with company accounts, industry and personal profiles, news, as well as acquisitions and mergers information.
This trial will run until 14th December 2009. Please click on the Database trials link on the library homepage.http://mislibsrv.lit.ie/ Enter your elit username and password, and follow the simple instructions to log on for trial 2 NexisDirect.
If you encounter any access issues please contact Sarah Landy, Systems Librarian at https://webmail.lit.ie/.

Trial Access to GreenR –

Global Reference on the Environment, Energy and Natural Resources

L.I.T. Library are delighted to have trial access to the GREENR database. GreenR is an interactive database which covers such subject areas as Energy Systems, Population, Climate Change, and Resource Management etc. To access the trial please click the Database Trials link on the library homepage, you will be prompted to enter your elit username and password. GreenR is currently Trial 2 listed on this page. Please follow the simple instructions to access the trial. The trial will run until 1st December 2009. Your feedback on this trial is welcome. Please send feedback to https://webmail.lit.ie

I'M LOVIN' ALL THE NEW INFORMATION ONLINE!

Institute Librarian Jerald Cavanagh's talk on Web Search Strategies & Tactics is now available on the LIT Library Website- you can find the presentation on the Library website- go to https://webmail.lit.ie then click on Information and Research Skills Tutorials.
Also

check out our new online information skills tutorials on L.I.L.T., Information Literacy and Epigeum Research Skills available at https://webmail.lit.ie with built in quizzes, practice scenarios and online videos dealing with topics such as research methods, literature review, information searching and evaluation, referencing. citation and plagiarism....what's not to love!

Database Trial – Academic Onefile
L.I.T. library are delighted to announce a trial on the Academic Onefile database. Academic OneFile provides diverse content across a range of disciplines. Some of the content which is included in Onefile is as follows:
Strong coverage of hard sciences, medicine, engineering and business
Full collection of Elsevier abstracts for every Elsevier journal, from 1996 to present
Full-text of the London Times and Financial Times
Full-text for periodicals covered in major bibliographic databases such as CINAHL, BIOSIS, MLS, PsychInfo, ERIC, EconLit, RILM and others
Peer-reviewed journals in multiple languages and ability to translate all content to multiple languages
Staff and students are encouraged to use Academic Onefile for the period of the trial which runs to the 31st October, 2009.
The trial is accessible via the Database Trials link on the library website. Please enter your elit login when prompted. Your feedback is welcome. Please email Sarah Landy at sarah.landy@lit.ie

Trial Access to BIZ / ED Premier

L.I.T. library are glad to announce trial access to BIZ / ED Premier. BIZ / ED Premier is a fulltext book database, giving the user fulltext access to the latest editions of core texts in the areas of business and economics.
Titles include:
Drury, Colin “Cost and management accounting”, 9th edition.
Lucey, Terry “Management information systems”, 6th edition
Cole, Gerald “Management theory and practice”, 6th edition

To access this trial please click on the database trials link on the library homepage and follow the instructions for logging in.

This trial will run until 19th November, 2009.

October is Dyslexia Month

Einstein, Pablo Picasso, Richard Branson, Leonardo da Vinci, Sir Winston Churchill, John F. Kennedy and Hans Christian Anderson, ...just a few great people who had something thing in common, they were brilliant.....Oh and they had Dyslexia!
October is National Dyslexia Awareness Month ant to mark it The Dyslexia Association of Ireland is inviting all book clubs (and other interested groups) to join our Novel Idea ... Read for Dyslexia Campaign. With your support the Dyslexia Association will be able to provide more specialist tutorial assistance to help people with dyslexia to discover the joy of reading. How? Every €40 raised will provide one hour of specialist tuition for a group of people with dyslexia.
Book clubs can help to raise funds in any way they choose, e.g. collecting donations at your next book club meeting, selling second-hand books, a sponsored reading marathon, a coffee morning, or a book-themed quiz night. The more novel the idea the better. The most Novel Idea will win a fantastic prize - a visit to your book club/group by Don Mullan, noted Irish author and human rights campaigner, and book vouchers to the value of €300. Detailed information and a registration form for the Novel Idea contact

Dyslexia Association of Ireland
Suffolk Chambers
1 Suffolk Street
Dublin 2
Tel. 01 6790276
www.dyslexia.ieCharity No. 10044

getting ready to welcome you back

Well.........it's been a pretty miserable Summer weather wise but we hope you enjoyed your break regardless. We've been busy here at the two Campus Libraries getting ready for your return.......the shelves are sorted, the new stock is in and we're rested and ready to rock!