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Learn how to use EndNote to manage and cite references.  Attend an introductory workshop in the James Hardiman Library on Tuesday, December 2nd from 7:30 - 9 p.m. Booking is essential Please reserve your place here

Learn how to use EndNote to manage and cite references.  Attend an introductory workshop in the James Hardiman Library on Saturday, December 6th. from 11:15 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.  Booking is essential Please reserve your place here

The current trial of  Translated Texts for Historians E-Library will end on Thursday 27 November 2014. Translated Texts for Historians E-Library contains scholarly English translations of over 50 works from late antiquity and the early middle ages. The translated texts span 300-800AD and have been translated into English from Greek, Latin, Syriac, Coptic, Arabic, Georgian, Armenian and Old Irish. Types of writing include histories, chronicles, letters, annals, formularies, compendia, political speeches, military and theological handbooks, poems, documentary sources, records of church councils, biblical and theological commentaries, sermons, church histories, Christian treatises, Christian and pagan panegyric and polemic, Neoplatonic texts, Lives of saints, bishops and popes. Access to this trial is available via: http://www.library.nuigalway.ie/aboutourcollections/databases/databasetrials/ Please complete the feedback form from the link above if this resource...

The WiFi service is subject to disruption between 16:00 and 17:00 on Tuesday November 25th in the James Hardiman Library. This downtime is required to facilitate essential maintenance of the wireless system and will affect both NUIGWiFi and eduroam users. The wired network service will not be impacted. If you have any queries, please contact the Service Desk (Tel. x5777 Email servicedesk@nuigalway.ie ).

Our November spotlight exhibition is drawing to a close, and this week in Bad Books we focus on the cancel. A more radical and costly alternative to the simple acknowledgement of errors as achieved through the insertion of an errata list or slip, the cancel involved the removal of an offending leaf and the pasting of a new (and hopefully error-free) one to its stub. Cancels are not always easy to detect. An unusually obvious cancel in The commercial restraints of Ireland considered in a series of letters to a noble lord . (Dublin : William Hallhead, 1779) While errata hint at the fallibility of the printing process, cancels erased errors without a trace and as such have more in common with the fluid and ephemeral electronic texts of our digital age . If you would like to view the Bad Books exhibition, please contact the staff of the Special Collections Reading Room in the Hardiman Research Building at specialcollections@nuigalway.ie . The spotlight exhibition ...

Reminder there will be a session tonight, 3rd March, on plagiarism and copyright infringement in the training room at 7.30, JHL. Topics considered will be:- Copyright legislation Do's and don'ts Best practice Photocopying Downloading from the Library website Guidelines for staff and postgrads The session will run for one hour, depending on demand. For further details, or follow up questions, please contact: Neil O'Brien at 493338 or neil.Obrien@nuigalway.ie If you wish to submit questions in advance of the session please free to contact me at my details above