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   Tuesday 10th January 2017, 1000-1200 G010 Hardiman Research Building All new staff (academic, research, administrative and technical) at NUI Galway are invited to attend this Library Induction event. For catering purposes please book Programme 1000               Welcome 1005               Library & IT Service Desk 1010               Academic Skills 1015               Academic Writing Centre 1020                Reading List Management System 1040                             ...

  30,000 e-books added to the catalogue The James Hardiman Library has added nearly 30,000 e-book records to the catalogue under an initiative called Demand Driven Acquisition.   These e-books are discoverable in the catalogue and comprise of scholarly works published in the last three years across all subject areas that are relevant to NUI Galway.   While the books are fully accessible to users, the Library won't pay for these e-books unless they are used! A purchase is ‘triggered’ only when one of the books is used for more than 5 minutes, or part of a book is downloaded or printed. We hope that this will really open up access to the material you need, without us buying what we’re not sure you will use.  It gives you a role in selecting material to be added to the library's collection.  

NUI Galway wins CONUL Annual National Teaching and Learning Award for 2016 Congratulation to Barry Houlihan, James Hardiman Library, Paul Flynn, School of Education and CELT for winning the 2016 CONUL Teaching & Learning Award for their Explore project - ‘ Breaking the SEAL’ – Student Engagement with Archives through Learning. The project received a glowing citation from the award judges with particular points highlighting the innovation in breaking down barriers to academia, from third to second level, the focus on critical thinking and learning, digital literacy innovation and partnership between the Library, School of Education and also the community of schools involved. The prize fund of €1000 will be used to expand the project to additional schools, along with presenting at next year’s CONUL conference and an opportunity to publish findings of the project in the Journal of Information Literacy . Barry and Paul would like to ...

On  Tuesday 17th January 2017 ,  we will continue our  series of lunchtime brown - bag events   to focus on   Duanaire, A Treasury of Digital Data for Irish Economic History .  Duanaire   is the work of Dr Aidan Kane and his team.  This innovate project  has  unearth ed  a wealth of Irish fiscal history data  and made it  accessible online in a range of form ats . At its core are the detailed accounts of revenues and expenditures  from  the  Journals of the House of Commons of the Kingdom of Ireland  throughout the 1700s. These remarkably sophisticated and consistent accounts give unique insights into the evolution of the Irish economy and the press of political and military events during this fascinating period. Dr Kane   has assembled  a unique infrastructure for the imaginative curation, exploration and sharing of significant tranches of Irish economic history data. Its construc...

Christmas has inspired personal stories and writings for so many of Ireland's writers. From playwrights to novelists, the story of Christmas and what it means, in comedy and tragedy, for so many has resulted in great works, many of which are within the Archives of the Hardiman Library here at NUI Galway. Draft of story,  Christmas , by John McGahern The writer John McGahern explored this particular time of year in one of his short stories. How that story even came to be is a story in itself.  Christmas  is the story of the young boy deposited to a family at Christmas time from an orphanage. He rejects a gift he is given, that of a toy aeroplane and this act forms the centre of McGahern's attention in the drafting of the story. The McGahern Archive contains numerous drafts of the story which was first published in the  Irish Press  in 1968. Numerous titles range from  Santa Claus ,  A Gift for Himself ,  The Aeroplane , before finally bein...

Season's greetings to all from the Library Staff If you are planning on studying over the festive period the Library Reading Room at basement level will be open as follows: Monday 19th - Saturday 24th December 2016: 07.00 - midnight Sunday 25th - Monday 26th December 2016:   Closed Tuesday 27th - Saturday 31st December 2016:   07.00 - midnight Sunday 1st January - Monday 2nd January 2017: Closed Tuesday 3rd January 2017 onwards normal opening hours (07.00 - 02.30) resume

Library Christmas/New Year Opening Hours Friday 16th December 2016 - Sunday 8th January 2017     Fri 16th Dec:   08.30 - 17.30     Sat 17th Dec  / Sun 18th Dec:   Closed   Mon 19th Dec - Thurs 22nd Dec:   08.30-17.30   Friday 23rd Dec - Monday 2nd Jan: Closed   Tues 3rd Jan - Friday 6th Jan: 08.30-17.30   Sat 7th Jan / Sun 8th Jan: Closed     Normal Opening Hours will resume on Monday 9th January 2017   Please note that the Library Reading Room, at basement level, is open over the Christmas/New Year period, please see related blog post for full details