NOW WHO'S "ICE" TO YOU?

ICE.....Brought to you by the Institution of Civil Engineers. The largest online civil engineering resource in the world. It gives the user access to the Institution of Civil Engineers back-file to 1836. This database allows access to the following journal titles :
Bridge Engineering, Civil Engineering, Construction Materials, Energy, Engineering and Computational Mechanics, Engineering History and Heritage, Engineering Sustainability, Geotechnical Engineering, Ground Improvement, Management, Procedure and Law, Maritime Engineering, Municipal Engineer, Structures and Buildings, Transport, Urban Design and Planning, Waste and Resource Management, Water Management

CHOOSE YOUR FAVOURITE LIBRARY BOOK AND TELL US WHY IT'S

As part of Library Ireland Week, LSAD and LIT Campus Libraries are asking you, our patrons, to choose your favourite LSAD/LIT LIBRARY book and to tell us why it holds a special place in your heart...your explanation can be a sentence or a paragraph. All entries will be entered into a draw for numerous lovely prizes. Closing date 12th March….

What’s yours?

Brid Foster, Deputy Institute Librarian, Retires

Brid Foster began her career in the LIT when the Library was a Porto cabin with buckets strewn around to collect the dripping rainwater! She worked tirelessly through the years to improve the services and oversaw the renovation of both campus Libraries. She had an uncanny knowledge of the materials and was a blessing to any student struggling with their research. As Deputy Librarian for the LIT & LSAD. She was a very popular member of staff amongst both academic and administrative personnel and will be dearly missed by all. To mark the occasion we had a lovely celebration in the Greenhills Hotel, where Brid was surrounded by friends and family, presented with gifts and danced the night away. (pictured below)

ART AT YOUR FINGERTIPS

ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM) provides a full abstracting and indexing service of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogues, PhD dissertations and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art.
ABM is the premier source of information on modern and contemporary arts dating from the late 19th century onwards. It includes abstracts of English and Foreign-language material on famous and lesser known artists.
ABM's coverage includes the traditional disciplines like illustration, painting, printmaking, sculpture and drawing, as well as, performance art and installation works, video art, computer and electronic art, body art, grafitti, artists' books, theatre, conservation, crafts, ceramic and glass art, ethnic arts, graphic and museum design, fashion and calligraphy.
You can access ARTbibliographies Modern by going to the Library homepage and clicking on "database trials", please avail of the trial which continues to the end of December 2009 and forward all feedback to Anne Culhane at mailto:anne.fculhane@lit.ieor Sarah Landy at sarah.landy@lit.ie

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!