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We have been alerted to an upcoming change to Google Chrome that will require Chrome users to update their browser in order to continue watching video content on Digital Theatre Plus. Google is making changes to their Content Decryption Module (CDM) within their Widevine DRM system. This is what is responsible for decrypting DRM (digital rights management) protected content, like that offered on the Digital Theatre+ platform, allowing you to watch it.  Most devices using the Chrome browser should update automatically. However, browsers using Widevine CDM and which have automatic updates turned off for any reason will need to be manually updated to the latest CDM. If using older versions of Google Chrome after 6th December 2022, your browser will no longer be able to decrypt media content on our platform and you will not be able to watch it. The required update was first made available on 25th October 2022. As long as your browser has been updated after this date, you shou...

Bronnadh cartlann agus leabharlann phearsanta Phroinsias Mhic Aonghusa   (1933–2003), nach maireann, ar Leabharlann Shéamais Uí Argadáin le déanaí agus tá catalógú an bhailiúcháin leabhar agus liostú na cartlainne ar siúl faoi láthair chun go mbeidh an t-ábhar ar fáil do thaighdeoirí, d’fhoireann agus do mhic léinn na hOllscoile.    Ba í bean chéile Mhic Aonghusa, an Breitheamh Catherine McGuinness, a bhronn an bailiúchán orainn agus cuireann sé go mór le cartlanna agus bailiúcháin speisialta na Leabharlainne.   B’iriseoir, scríbhneoir, polaiteoir, gníomhaí agus láithreoir teilifíse Éireannach a bhí i Mac Aonghusa. Rugadh é i mBóthar na Trá, Gaillimh in 1933 agus d’fhreastail sé ar Choláiste Iognáid agus ina dhiaidh sin ar Scoil Aisteoireachta Amharclann na Mainistreach i mBaile Átha Cliath. Chuir sé tús lena ghairm bheatha sa chraoltóireacht in 1952 nuair a thosaigh sé ag obair do Raidió Éireann, agus sna 1960idí d’oibrigh sé i gcúrsaí teilifíse do RTÉ, UT...

Please be advised that LexisNexis will be performing systems maintenance on Sunday, November 20th, 2022.   The maintenance window is 07:00 to 11:00.  The works will affect the whole product so users will not be able to log in during these hours on Sunday morning.      LexisNexis apologise to users for any disruption and inconvenience that may be due as a result of the required maintenance work.   

In preparation for the upcoming semester we are providing in-person   training sessions   to assist lecturers in publishing their reading lists.  For lecturers new to our service, this is a sample  reading list  with links to our Library and web resources. In summary, t he Library's  Reading List Service  is  a one-stop teaching support service for academic staff.  W hen you use our service we will:  prioritise your reading lists   order required books/e-books request chapter and article digitisation (one chapter/up to 10% of a publication) provide direct linking to the list from Blackboard for your students In addition, the Reading List Service fully supports the teaching cycle. O nce the reading list is created, it will roll forward for the next academic year. R eading lists can also be shared if there are a number of staff teaching a module. Further Information More information about using our   Reading List Serv...

  Open Voices Interview with Ana Enriquez, Penn State University Library In this interview of our Open Voices series we are talking to Ana Enriquez , the Interim Head, Scholarly Communications and Copyright at the Penn State University Libraries , about recent changes in federal Open Access policy in the US and what means for US libraries and the wider publishing environment. Hardy: Hi Ana, nice talking to you and we appreciate your time. Can you please introduce yourself to readers of this blog? Ana : Sure. I am the Scholarly Communications Outreach Librarian at the Penn State University Libraries and I am the Interim Head of our Office of Scholarly Communications and Copyright . I am a copyright lawyer and a librarian, and an advocate for Open Access. Hardy: Thanks. I would like to talk to you about the recent policy announcements by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) that got a lot of attention here in Europe as well. Could you first explain the cha...

Access to British Library Newspapers, Part 6: Ireland, 1783-1950 is now available via the library catalogue. This new collection contains 80 titles all published in Ireland in the late eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Below is a list of some of the key titles contained in this new collection: Connaught Patriot and The Galway American Irish Catholic and Irish Catholic and Nation United Ireland The Irish Nation and The Peasant An Claideamh Soluis : Fáinne an Lae and Dublin Penny Journal The Volunteer’s Journal Irish Felon Collection Development

 Open Voices Interview with Kris Meen In this interview, we hear from Kris Meen , Academic Skills Librarian at the University of Galway, about his views on Open Education and his current work on Open Educational Resources (OER) locally and within European initiatives. Hardy: To start off our conversation how would you define Open Education? Kris : Open Education opens up barriers that might exist to education otherwise. Famously, Open Educational Resources (OER) in particular in the North American context have reduced barriers of affordability to education by cutting down on the cost of textbooks. Open Education also brings down barriers in terms of what you can do with educational resources because a lot of the times they are mediated by open licenses. The Open licenses allow you to do what is sometimes defined as the Five Rs : Reuse, Revise, Remix, Redistribute, Retain, Reuse. You give your education and your pedagogy some sort of superpowers in terms of the ways that you can s...