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The ARAN Institutional Repository is currently offline. We expect it to be available on Monday March 1st by 17:00 hrs. We apologise for any inconvenience.

Topic: Market research - how to find the information you need Time: 1400-1500 Date: 23rd February 2010 Venue: Library Training Room Trainer: Trish Finnan, Subject Librarian (Business and Economics) Email: trish.finnan@nuigalway.ie This training session will guide you through library resources for market research. It is a 'drop-in' session ie., no booking required.

As part of the LARK information schedule we will be presenting an information session on a variety of E-Resources for literary and historical research on the 19th Century. Venue is the Library Training Room at 12noon on Thursday 18 February.

Meet your Subject Librarian and discover how they can help you find quality information quickly. Subject Librarians and other members of the subject support teams will be available in the Library Foyer from 22 to 24 February, between 11am and 3pm: Monday 22 February: Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies Tuesday 23 February: Science, Engineering, Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences Wednesday 24 February: Law and Business They will be very pleased to help with any aspects of your work, especially if you want to find better ways to research your assignments.

The latest item to be made available to researchers through the archives service is a medical manuscript from the mid-nineteenth century. Entitled an Atlas of Anatomical Drawings to illustrate the work of Wilson, Carpenter and others … (Dublin, 1859), the work consists of 28 plates of drawings of anatomy, with hand-written notes on each plate. The item is listed under A41, and is available for consultation at the Special Collections Reading Room. The item was donated by Prof. Seán and Mrs. Frances Lavelle to the Library, and will be a welcome addition to a number of collections dealing with teaching in Irish universities in the later nineteenth century.

*** Access has now been restored to SFX. Apologies once again for the inconvenience * ** We're currently experiencing some problems with our SFX service . This means that Find E-Journal , and some other SFX linking services are being affected at the moment. We're working hard to fix the problem, and we'll restore services as soon as possible. Apologies for the inconvenience, please bear with us!

An updated version of the Library publication "Your Literature Search: a step by step guide" is available to download. This guide is aimed at anyone beginning a research task and will help you quickly get to grips with the process and research tools available. This is an e-only publication in pdf format. To read and download please click on the following link: Your Literature Search