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Fáilte - Welcome to all our new First Year Students Welcome to all our new first year students.  We're delighted that you have chosen to come and study in NUI Galway and we will do everything we can to help you be successful in your studies. Orientation Week Tours of the Library: Mon     31.08   14:00-17:00     Medicine, Nursing, Midwifery & Health Sciences Tue      01.09   12:00-17:00     Business and Econmics Tue      01.09   12:00-13:00     Arts, Social Sciences & Celtic Studies Tue      01.09   15:00-17:00     Science Wed     02.09    09:00-13:00      Public Policy and Law Wed     02.09    10:00-12:00      Science Wed     02.09    12:00-13:00      Arts, Soc...

  We would like to take this opportunity to welcome all NUI Galway students, both new and returning, to the Library. We're delighted that you have chosen to come and study in NUIG and we will do everything we can to help you be successful in your studies.   The Library provides training on a variety of topics - all designed to help you gain the skills of finding, evaluating and using information more efficiently. Please visit our  Training  page, to find details of what we have to offer, to help you with your studies.   Training Events             Training Calendar              Useful Guides    

Essential training for all students - in just 30 minutes you will learn how to find your way around the Library, what services are available and how to find the books you need in the Library.  You will be shown how to search the library's catalogue to find out if the library has the books or journals you need.  You'll also be given a short tour of the library, so that you can learn how to find the books on the shelves. No booking required - this is a drop in session.  This training will be held in the   Library Training Room   on the ground floor of the Library at the following times: September 7th to 11th:  11am and 2pm every day September 14th to 18th: 11am and 2pm every day   No need to book - Just Drop In!

Scopus will soon be discontinuing support of its product on IE8, please see message below. It's unlikely you will have to make changes, as most machines in NUI Galway run a more recent version of Internet Explorer. If you do encounter an issue, you can let us know via this form: http://www.library.nuigalway.ie/contactus/helpcentre/e-resourceenquiry/ Scopus to cease support of Internet Explorer 8 on October 1 Why are we ceasing support of IE8? We are following Microsoft’s directive to focus our support on newer, officially-supported IE browser versions. Microsoft announced in 2014 it would only support the most recent IE browser version with technical support and security updates. We strongly encourage our customers to also follow Microsoft’s directive by updating to more recent versions of IE or by using other supported browsers . We will discontinue support a few months ahead of Microsoft’s official deadline of January 2016 in order to get an earlier start on some ...

Yeats & the West  is an exhibition focusing not just on the work and influence of W.B. Yeats, but on the influence on him and wider impact of people, landscapes, languages, crafts, arts, and music from the west of Ireland and beyond. A major addition to the exhibition is a rare oil painting by Gerard Dillon of a night-time scene featuring a moonlight vista of a ‘typical’ Connemara landscape, its figures recalling some lost play by J.M.Synge. These characters, a shawled woman and a virile, moondrunk (or just drunk) young man, bowed in ritual before a moonlit boghole, also appear as shades from out of Yeats’s western phantasmagoria, reminding a viewer of landscapes Yeats himself had created in his first book,  The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems  (1889) (a volume praised by Oscar Wilde and William Morris) – in particular these lines from his poem “Ephemera”: ‘Your eyes that once were never weary of mine Are bowed in sorrow under pendulous li...

Essential training for all new students - in just 30 minutes you will learn how to find your way around the Library, what services are available and how to find the books you need in the Library. You will be shown how to search the library's catalogue to find out if the library has the books or journals you need.  You'll also be given a short tour of the library, so that you can learn how to find the books on the shelves. No booking required - this is a drop in session. This training will be held in the Library Training Room on the ground floor of the Library at the following times: Week beginning September 7th:  11am and 2pm every day, Monday to Friday Week beginning September 14th:  11am and 2pm every day, Monday to Friday No need to book - Just Drop In!

Online Registration (Quercus Web Portal) is currently unavailable Thursday, 20th of August, 2015 Online Registration (Quercus Web Portal) is currently unavailable. ISS are working to resolve this issue as a priority and we apologise for the inconvenience caused. If you have any queries, please contact the Service Desk (Tel. x5777 Email servicedesk@nuigalway.ie ). Conor McMahon Head of Operations Information Solutions and Services Tel. 091 495777

On Sunday, 23rd of August from 07:00 to 15:00, the following Library services will be unavailable in order to facilitate necessary maintenance. Real-time information regarding items on loan or availability Booking of group study rooms Placement of reservation requests Online Renewal If you need to access our books and journals you can search our Library Management System at http://opac.nuigalway.ie Our apologies for the inconvenience.

Refurbishment work at the Medical Library, Clinical Sciences Institute, is now complete and the Library will re-open on Monday 17th August.  Some of the newly integrated spaces have yet to be fitted out, and this work will be completed before the start of the School of Medicine academic year at the end of August.   Medical Library Opening Hours - August 2015   Monday - Friday: 08.00-22.00 Saturday/Sunday: Closed  

The EBSCO eBooks app enables easy discovery and simple download capabilities from your library collection to any mobile device, and a best-in-class reading experience. Available 24/7  Quick access to intuitive app features Place holds on best-selling titles and new releases Adjust font size, margin, contrast and more Sync libraries, bookmarks and recent positions in the same    titles across mobile devices The EBSCO eBooks app is available for: iOS devices (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch) from the  iTunes app store Android devices from  Google Play Kindle Fire and Nook devices from  this FAQ To find out more information,  click here .