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Access to Naxos Music Library is now available as part of Library support for the new BA in Music. Naxos Music Library is the world´s largest online classical music library. Currently, it offers streaming access to more than 140,330 CDs with more than 2,172,000 tracks of both standard and rare repertoire. Over 800 new CDs are added to the library every month. The contents of Naxos Music Library can be searched by composer, work, genre and label; by keyword search; and by an advanced search engine with up to 11 combined search criteria. In addition to allowing users to listen to recordings, liner notes are provided for many recordings. Furthermore, a vast array of background information is available. Resources include: Audio book transcriptions about the history of classical music and opera with listening examples Libretti and synopses of over 700 operas A pronunciation guide for composer and artist names A glossary An overview of important musical terms Work

In support of the new BA in Music, the Library has taken out a subscription to Met Opera on Demand , an online streaming database of full-length opera performances from the New York Metropolitan Opera. The archive consists of 650 performances, going back seventy years, offering video and audio streaming of the Met's classic repotoire. The composers range from Mozart, Handel, Puccini, Bizet, Benjamin Britten and contemporaries such as John Adams. Performers include: Luciano Pavarotti Joan Sutherland Kiri Te Kanawa  Plácido Domingo Jon Vickers Also included: More than 100 presentations from the Met’s award-winning "Live in HD" series of global cinema transmissions Classic Met telecasts dating from 1977, including "Aida" starring Leontyne Price, "La Bohème" starring Luciano Pavarotti and Renata Scotto, Jon Vickers as Otello, and more More than 400 radio broadcast performances dating back to 1935, representing many of the mo

Chad Norman The James Hardiman Library welcomes Chad Norman, a poet from Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada. Chad will be reading from his oeuvre of poetry, which covers 35 years of writing, most recently  Selected & New Poems,  by Mosaic Press. Chad will be joined by local poets contributing readings from their work. Celeste Augé hails originally from Northern Ontario, but has called Ireland home from the age of 12 years. Celeste's works include  The Essential Guide to Flight , published by Co. Clare's Salmon Poetry. We will also welcome Gerry Hanberry, whose collections of work includes  What Our Shoes Say About Us , also published by Salmon. We're very excited to be welcoming these poets to the Library on Culture Night. A light lunch will be provided afterwards. Please book for catering purposes! https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/poets-at-the-library-tickets-50123948078

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Gale is seeking to recruit two NUI Galway students to become Gale Ambassadors. Gale publishes primary source digital archive collections such as Eighteenth Century Collections Online, The Economist Historical Archive, The Times Digital Archive, State Papers Online and many more, all of which you can access via the Library catalogue. The selected students will undertake awareness-building activities, so more students will find out about and use these archives. Gale Ambassadors will be paid €570. Benefits of becoming a Gale Ambassador: *Business experience: You will be working directly with the marketing team at Gale throughout the course of the programme and gain great experience of the ins and outs of working in a business. *Work publication: Writing for Gale's blog, The Gale Review, can raise your publication profile and provide accessible, online evidence of your work with Gale. *Public speaking experience: This is a skill applicable to numerous jobs and a