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What academic skills do you think first year students need for success at University?   Do you know of the supports available in NUI Galway to help students develop those skills?   There is an opinion widely held, that students entering third level education from secondary school are not well prepared for the needs of higher education and do not have the core academic skills they need.   The provision of support for academic skills development is recognised as a key factor in student engagement and retention, particularly in first year.   NUI Galway has a range of different services that provide support for these academic skills, e.g. : ·           Skills4Study Campus (online module available via The Learning Centre in Blackboard) ·          The Academic Writing Centre ·          SUMS: Mathematics drop-in support centre ·  ...

    Library Reading Room (Basement Level)   Christmas/New Year Opening Hours             Monday 22nd – Wednesday 24th December 2014: 07.00 – midnight Thursday 25th/Friday 26th December 2014: Closed Saturday 27th – Wednesday 31st December:   07.00 – midnight Thursday 1st January 2015: Closed Friday 2nd – Sunday 4th January 2015: 07.00 – midnight Monday 5th January 2015 onwards normal opening hours (07.00-02.30) resume  

There will be a session tonight on using the library's link resolver, SFX, to locate fulltext content of e-journal articles Venue : James Hardiman Library Training Room Time : 19:45 Duration : 1 hour  Topics covered will be how it works where the SFX button can be found bX Recommnder Service reporting questions / problems

The current trial of Loeb Classical Library expires on Friday 19 December 2014. Founded by James Loeb in 1911, the mission of the Loeb Classical Library has always been to make Classical Greek and Latin literature accessible to the broadest range of readers.  The Loeb Classical Library presents an interconnected, fully searchable, perpetually growing, virtual library of all that is important in Greek and Latin literature. Epic and lyric poetry; tragedy and comedy; history, travel, philosophy, and oratory; the great medical writers and mathematicians; those Church Fathers who made particular use of pagan culture—in short, our entire Greek and Latin Classical heritage is represented here with up-to-date texts and accurate English translations. More than 520 volumes of Latin, Greek, and English texts are available in a modern and elegant interface, allowing readers to browse, search, bookmark, annotate, and share content with ease. Access is available via: ht...

Every once in a while in Special Collections, we happen upon an item which perfectly illustrates the circuitous and often serendipitous journey a book can make from its printing house origins to a shelf in the James Hardiman Library. The Blunt Bible is one such treasure. Printed anonymously in Cork in the early C19th, this Bible appears almost 70 years later as a well-intentioned gift from an equally anonymous Galway woman to the fractious English poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840-1922) currently lounging in Galway Gaol. Much to Blunt’s displeasure, the Bible was swiftly confiscated by his jailers on the grounds of its large size, and they parted ways, only to be reunited on an unfettered return to Galway a few years later following a chance sighting of the Bible in the window of local bookseller T.J. Connolly. It remained in Blunt's library until its bequest at his death to his long-time friend Lady Augusta Gregory (1852-1932), and it now forms part of our wonderful Lady Gregory C...

Counseling and Therapy in Video Vol. I and Vol. II This is a multi-part online collection that provides over 1,000 hours of training videos. It includes re- enactments and also footage of actual therapy session. It allows viewers the opportunity to view expert therapsists at work and learn intricacies of behaviour, tone, facial expression, and body language that define successful counselling experiences. Click here to link

The current trial of  English Historical Documents Online expires this Friday 12 December 2014. Access is available via: http://www.library.nuigalway.ie/aboutourcollections/databases/databasetrials/ English Historical Documents is the most comprehensive, annotated collection of documents on British history ever compiled. Conceived during the Second World War with a view to ensuring the most important historical documents remained available and accessible in perpetuity, the first volume came out in 1953, and the most recent volume almost sixty years later. The sources include treaties, statutes, declarations, government and cabinet proceedings, military dispatches, orders, acts, sermons, newspaper articles, pamphlets, personal and official letters, diaries and more. Each section of documents and many of the documents themselves are accompanied by editorial commentary. The sources cover a wide spectrum of topics, from political and constitutional issues ...

We continue our whirlwind journey through all things biblical in Special Collections, and on display in the reading room this week are items from the C17th and C18th. We begin with this commentary on the Song of Solomon composed by Paul Sherlock (1595-1646), an Irish Jesuit and president of the Irish College in Salamanca. Bible. Song of Solomon. 1637-1640 . (Lvgdvni : Sumptibus Iacobi & Petri Prost, 1637-1640) Next up is the first complete edition of the Bible in the Irish language . The O.T. translation from Hebrew was commissioned by William Bedell (1571-1642), and the N.T. was translated from Greek by Huilliam O’Domhnuill (-1628). Bible. Irish. 1690. (A Lunnduin : Ar na chur a gcló re R. Ebheringtham, 1690) From the C18th we have this ambitious biblical atlas by a Dutch theologian who in fact never travelled to the Holy Land at all. His work was nonetheless an influential one, and it is believed that parts were borrowed by Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?-1618) ...