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The AWC Summer Camp: A Three -Day Free Course in Academic Writing: 7-9 August 2015. This summer camp has been designed for students of all disciplines wishing to improve their writing skills. We will focus on the following: working with secondary sources essay structure sentence structure grammar the writing process  We also hope to identify each student's areas of improvement and work specifically on these issues. On 7 - 9 August, we will meet at 11am, break for lunch at 1pm, and study until 4pm. The camp is free and open to all students of the NUIG and the affiliated colleges. Please register in advance: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-awc-summer-camp-a-three-day-free-course-in-academic-writing-tickets-17721258762 Attendance is limited to 20 students. For this reason, please let us know in advance if you are not able to attend the camp.

  Regular access to the Library catalogue has resumed and all services have been fully restored. Thanks for your patience and once again apologies for the inconvenience. We are experiencing an issue with some of our indexes at the moment. This is impacting search results for library books and journals. Article searches are operating correctly. Please bear with us while we deal with this issue. In the meantime, you can search our Library Management System for books and journals at http://opac.nuigalway.ie

We're currently experiencing some problems with our Library Catalogue . 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!

   The Sunday Times Digital Archive 1822-2006 is on trial until Friday 10 July 2015 via http://www.library.nuigalway.ie/aboutourcollections/databases/databasetrials/ .   Please complete the feedback form if this resource is of interest to you.      

Please note   Due to the Refurbishment Project underway at the Clinical Sciences Institute the Medical Library is currently  off limits in order to facilitate required structural works. The precise duration of the closed period is at present unknown, but is likely to extend well into July.     Please check our Medical Library Opening Hours website page for the latest updates: http://www.library.nuigalway.ie/usingthelibrary/openinghours/medicallibrary/        We apologise for any inconvenience caused  

W.B. Yeats - subject of a new Library exhibition The exhibition will be open from 29 June 2015 and will run throughout 2015. Admission is free and all are welcome. 2015 is a year dedicated to the national and international celebration of the life, work and legacy of Ireland's Nobel-prize winning poet, W.B. Yeats. 'Yeats150' marks the 150th anniversary of Yeats' birth and is the inspiration behind the upcoming exhibition, Yeats and the West taking place at the Hardiman Building. The foyer space will be transformed into a story-telling space of the influence of the West of Ireland on W.B. Yeats; his spiritual home and eventual burial place, and how the West was a living presence in Yeats' work but also on those around him, who collaborated with him and inspired those who came after Yeats. The exhibition will present a range of items from the Archives and Special Collections of the Hardiman Library in a display of material and digital content. The themes of th...

The inaugural CONUL (Consortium of National and University Libraries) annual conference, which took place in Athlone from 3-4 June featured wide representation from across the Library. With eleven speakers in total across the two days of the conference programme, the Library was well represented among peers and colleagues from across the country. The conference thme was 'Innovation and Evolution: Challenges and Opportunities for 21st Century' and considered the broad challenges facing academic and research libraries in Ireland. The conference identified and debated such challenges and provide an opportunity for staff to network, learn, discuss and share their expertise and best practice. Among the speakers from the Hardiman Library were John Cox, Ann Mitchell, Evelyn Bohan, Peter Corrigan, Monica Crump, Cillian Joy, Aisling Keane, Barry Houlihan, Ronan Kennedy, Marie Boran and Connell Cunningham. The issues address by this group in their individual and joint presentations ...

The LibQUAL+ survey Ipad-mini winner was Ms Aoife McHugh, 3rd year Bachelor of Arts (Mathematics and Education). Congratulations Aoife!