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ARAN will be undergoing essential maintenance between 10.00 and 14.00 on Thursday 1 April. The system will remain ‘live’ during most of that time however it will be intermittently ‘down’.

This workshop is aimed at Arts and Social Science researchers with some prior experience of using EndNote to manage citations. The workshop will cover: Working with your EndNote Library Effective citing & referencing, including using footnotes Editing import filters & output styles Date: Wednesday, 24th March Time: 2.30pm - 4pm Venue: The Nursing & Midwifery Library PC Suite, Nursing & Midwifery Library wing To reserve a place click here

Several Database Focus workshops have been arranged for the week beginning 22 March: Trish Finnan will be covering Business Source Complete: Monday 22 March 12-1 Tuesday 23 March 2-3 Wednesday 24 March 10-11 Kathleen Burke will be covering Academic Search Complete, SocINDEX, and Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection Tuesday 23 March 10-11 Thursday 25 March 10-11 The workshops take place in the Library Training Room on the ground floor of the Library, and booking is not required.

From 22-24 March, the Library will be focussing on important databases that will help students find good quality journal articles for their research and assignments. The Library has been able to upgrade to Academic Search Complete and Business Source Complete . Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive multidisciplinary database, covering more than 7,400 full-text journals. Business Source Complete is a major business database, and includes financial data, industry and market reports, and company profiles. Both databases will feature strongly in workshops with Subject Librarians in the Library Training Room. There will also be drop in sessions based in the Library foyer at 11.30am and 3pm each day.

Floor 1 - Short Stay Zone For your convenience and to ensure that you can get a study place in the library when you drop in between lectures, or just for a short period at any time of the day, we have introduced the Short Stay Zone on Floor 1. Short Stay means Short Stay! If you vacate a seat you give up the seat You cannot reserve a seat, and the 30 Minute Rule does not apply to this area Belongings will be removed from vacant seats

On 22 March, the Library will be launching an online survey of taught postgraduate students. We are keen to have students' views of the Library, so that we can further develop services that meet students' needs. The link to the online survey will be sent to students' NUI Galway email addresses, and all respondents will be entered automatically into a prize draw. The survey will take only ten minutes to complete, and there is plenty of opportunity to add comments. Please note that all responses are treated with the utmost confidentialty.

This one-hour session will explore online services that can help you to keep up with recently published material. Participants will have opportunity to set up alerting services that best suit the way they work. 3-4pm Friday 19th March Nusing & Midwifery PC Suite on the ground floor of the Nursing & Midwifery Library This workshop is aimed at humanities & social science researchers and others who need to keep in touch with the current literature in their field Follow this link to reserve your place

Find out about thousands of Irish lives by visiting the exhibition in the Library foyer. The nine volume set is available for consultation, and there is an exhibition of items from the Library's archives and special collections - photographs, letters and other documents. The exhibition has been compiled to mark Library Ireland Week and Seachtain na Gaeilge. The online version of the Dictionary will be available very soon.

The ARAN Institutional Repository service has been restored and is now available for searching.

To access this database click here . Please note, you need to be on campus to gain access. British Periodicals provides access to the searchable full text of hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth, comprising millions of high-resolution facsimile page images.

The ARAN Institutional Repository is currently offline due to a system error. We hope to have this service restored as soon as possible. We apologise for any inconvenience.

Introduction to EndNote bibliographic management software. Learn how to Set up and manage your EndNote library Add & Import Citations Create and edit bibliographies using Cite While You Write Following this workshop you will be ready to start using EndNote to manage the results of your literature review and you will be able to use EndNote's CWYW function when writing papers with bibliographies. Venue: Nursing & Midwifery Library PC Suite Basement Nursing & Midwifery Library wing James Hardiman Library Date & time: 11am-1pm, Tuesday 2nd March Please click here to reserve your place