The HardiBlog

In support of film studies, the Library has continued to add to our dvd collection located on floor one. Below is a selection of well-known titles from all genres that we have purchased over the last year or so. All of our dvds are available to be borrowed. Finally we would like to remind you of our film streaming resource Kanopy which provides access to many classic films and documentaries.   DVD Titles (click on title to see holdings) Florida Project                        Call me by Your Name            The Breadwinner       Borg vs McEnroe                   The Big Sick                             Get Out                       Blade Runner 2049           ...

We are very pleased to announce that our project, 'Supporting Diversity in Academic Writing', has received funding from the NUIG Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Project Fund.  Thanks to this grant, we will be able to hold a unique interactive workshop given by writing tutors from the University of Hawaii on 29 January 2019 at 5pm.   How can one support diversity through the teaching of academic writing? Do some practices reflect tutors’ unconscious biases and thus unintentionally lead to the silencing of diverse voices? Can cultural awareness be fostered through particular tutoring strategies?  The workshop, conducted via a video-link, will address these questions through presentations and specially designed activities.  Located in a culturally diverse area with a long history of colonialism, the Writing Centre of the University of Hawaii is committed to facilitating inclusivity through querying current teaching practices and its state-of-the-a...

14 December 2018 is the 100th anniversary of what was probably one of the most significant elections in Irish history. On Saturday 14 December 1918 the electorate on the island of Ireland, expanded from c.700,000 to over 2 million due to the Representation of the People Act (1918), went to the polls in what was the only 32-county general election. It was significant also because it was the first time women (over 30) were granted the right to vote to elect members of parliament and to be candidates in such elections. To mark the occasion Mary Clancy from Global Women's Studies in the School of Political Science and Sociology and Marie Boran, Special Collections Librarian, have collaborated on a visual display which tells the story of some of the women who campaigned in Galway and the West of Ireland for women's right to vote. The display will run on the Hardiman Building foyer video wall from 14-21 December. Please do drop by to view it.

CFP:  Writing and Well-being National University of Ireland, Galway 5 April 2019 Procrastination, writer’s block, failing a course due to being unable to finish writing assignments, and even debilitating anxiety—many of us who work with writers, whether in the classroom,   the writing centre, or in another support capacity, encounter students who regularly experience these kinds of challenges. There are also those writers who explain writing as essential to their being, a form of therapy, and a release. Both sides of this spectrum point to the ways writing intersects with students’ well-being. Given that academic writing constitutes the core activity across multiple disciplines, professionals responsible for students’ workload and supporting writing should understand how mandatory writing assignments affect students’ physical and mental health and their emotional state; however, the subject remains under-researched, and the answers in hand are ambivalent. For e...

We are looking forward to the arrival of Dr. Georganne Nordstrom, who has been awarded the Fulbright Fellowship to work with the AWC in the James Hardiman Library and in the Discipline of English in Spring 2019. Dr. Georganne Nordstrom is an Associate Professor of Composition and Rhetoric and Director of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s (UHM) Writing Center. Her research and teaching focuses on writing center studies, critical and place-based pedagogy, and examinations of Indigenous and minority rhetorics, with a specific focus on Hawaiʻi’s Creole, Pidgin. She is the co-editor (with Jeff Carroll and Brandy Nālani McDougall) of Huihui: Aesthetics and Rhetorics of the Pacific (UH Press, 2015), a multi-genre anthology whose authors represent different nations of the Pacific. Her work has also been published in College English, College Composition and Communication, and The Writing Center Journal. Dr. Nordstrom is the recipient of UHM’s 2016 Chancellor’s Citation for Meritorious...

It has been an amazing year for Irish fiction - a Booker prize winner and a bestseller from Castlebar . As well as Anna Burns and Sally Rooney there has been a wealth of new and established writers publishing new material in all genres. Here are some of the recent Irish novels we have added to our collection. All of these books are available from our Popular Reading Collection, currently on floor 1. We always welcome suggestions for new books to added to the Library's collection. Milkman by Anna Burns Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne Normal People by Sally Rooney The Orchid and the Wasp by Caolinn Hughes A Keeper by Graham Norton Skin Deep by Liz Nugent The Importance of Being Aisling! by Emer Lysaght & Sarah Breen  Collection Development

The Library is currently running a short student survey about access to your reading list materials. We would like to know: do you have difficulty accessing your required readings - books, ebooks or articles?  would you like your course modules to use our  Reading List System  as described below?  Please take a minute to fill out the  Student Reading List Experience survey . (survey ends Friday 14th December) The Library's Reading List System In the last two years we have, where possible, provided your lists online with our dedicated  Reading List System . The list is created by the lecturer and links to ebooks, scanned chapters, full-text articles and our Library holdings. The list is accessed via the relevant Blackboard module. Using this system allows us to quickly check and keep track of your reading list requirements. It is easier for students to find their readings and we do everything we can to provide access to high demand materi...

Oxford Bibliographies in Music combines the best features of a high-level encyclopedia and a traditional bibliography in a style tailored to meet the needs of today’s online researchers. Each article, written and reviewed by top scholars in the field, is rich with citations and annotations, expert recommendations, and narrative pathways to the most important works for virtually all areas of music. Click here to access the trial of  Oxford Bibliographies in Music . Please submit the feedback form available  here   to assist in evaluating this resource. The trial ends on Friday 07 December 2018 .