The HardiBlog

ARAN is NUI, Galway's new open access repository. ARAN collects preserves and makes freely available scholarly communication, including peer-reviewed articles, working papers and conference papers created by NUI, Galway researchers. The ARAN -(Access to Research at NUI Galway) team are happy to announce the addition of Michael Madden of the College of Engineering and Informatics as ARAN’s new Featured Researcher. Michael established and leads the Machine Learning & Data Mining Group in NUI Galway. His research work is inter-disciplinary, inter-institutional, and focuses on the development of new machine learning methods, Bayesian, SVMs, and others, and their application to scientific, medical and other domains, and includes contributions ranging from theoretical algorithms to practical real-world applications. Click here to find out more and view Michael’s scholarly communications in ARAN. If you are interested in depositing material in ARAN or becoming a featured researche...

This addition to ECCO brings the fulltext coverage of titles indexed in English Short Title Catalogue up to a whopping 85%. There is also a significant body of material in ECCO part 2, as library holdings from TCD and NLI are included. Access the trial from this link We would be very interested in hearing the extent of interest in this addition to ECCO so please take time to complete the feedback form after checking out the resource. Trial expires 1st May

Mind, Body and Soul collection of books has been added to the Library. These are located in the Browsing Room at the end of the Popular Reading section. There are just over 100 titles and are all loanable. They range in titles from Potatoes not Prozac to The academic career handbook .

We welcome suggestions and recommendations from students for books you'd like to see added to the Library's holdings. Please use the online Suggestion Form .

Are you interested in a career in Librarianship, and are applying for Library School? Most Library schools have a requirement for in-service training, pre-Library school work experience, or placement as part of their Library and Information Studies Programmes. As a CONUL member Library, and in support of the profession, the James Hardiman Library have committed to accepting one student who has been accepted for a place in an Irish or UK Library School. Our Staff Development Group has worked on a placement programme to ensure that students benefit to the maximum from their time with us, gaining experience in each of our major divisions, and at the same time making a meaningful contribution to the work of the Library. Timing : We have a preference for placements during the summer vacation. Minimum duration is six weeks full-time attendance. Archives students – these normally seek post course completion experience for 3-4 weeks – requests for such will be considered separately and are m...

Gwen Ryan has recently been appointed as Research Support Librarian for Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences and is available to postgraduate researchers in these disciplines. Gwen can be contacted by email gwen.ryan@nuigalway.ie or on extension 5959. Rosarie Coughlan continues to support STM researchers and is contactable on rosarie.coughlan@nuigalway.ie or extension 5697. Both Gwen and Rosarie are based in the Research Support Office which is now situated on the 1st floor of the James Hardiman Library. Please visit the Research Information Gateway for more information on services available to research staff and students: http://www.library.nuigalway.ie/rig

The Library has produced the first in a new series of useful guides for library users, called HardiGuides . This first set is specifically for commerce users . At the moment, there are three guides for your use, but we'll be updating these often, so expect to see more added to the list! How Do I Find ... Company Information How Do I Find ... Economics Databases How Do I Find ... Market Research Resources

We welcome suggestions and recommendations from students for books you'd like to see added to the Library's holdings. Please use the online Suggestion Form .