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Plant Atlas 2020: Mapping Changes in the Distribution of the British and Irish Flora is the most in-depth survey of British and Irish flora ever undertaken, based on more than 30 million individual records. This new publication presents the results of field surveys by the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland, building on past atlas surveys undertaken by the Botanical Society in the early and late twentieth century.  Drawing on the work of thousands of botanists who covered the entirety of Britain and Ireland between 2000 and 2019, this book features introductory chapters that provide a detailed assessment of the changes to the region’s flora over the past hundred years.  Plant Atlas 2020 contains a wealth of distribution maps and accompanying text and graphics display the phenology, altitudinal range, and time-series trends for 2,616 native and alien species and 247 hybrids. The online version of Plant Atlas 2020 is available here and print copies of Vol. I and Vol. II ...

The Library has access to an excellent range of LGBTQ+ films and documentaries via our Kanopy video streaming service. Listed below are the main subject categories for browsing. All of these titles are also available from our Library Catalogue and can be incorporated into reading lists .   LGBT Activism LGBTQ Cinema LGBTQ History LGBT Artists International LGBT Studies Transgender Studies LGBT Filmmakers Lesbian Documentaries LGBT Families and Youth Kanopy  has thousands of available films to stream.  Viewers can add films to their watchlists, create  film clips and playlists  highlighting particular sections or lists of films.    Kanopy  is accessed via the Library catalogue and a mobile app is also available. Collection Development

Currently in the Library foyer there is a display of banned and controversial books from recent history with a selection of associated reference and related works on censorship.  This display will run until Thursday April 6th Collection Development

    On 31 March 2023 starting at 01:30 am GMT individual Lippincott online journal sites (found at   https://lww.com/pages/journals.aspx ) will be unavailable for around 45 minutes due to maintenance work. You can still access all our journals via the Ovid platform throughout this time. We will do everything we can to minimize any downtime.

   Feabhra 2023, Maeve O' Neill Fostaíodh in Ollscoil na Gaillimhe mé i mí Iúil  2022   chun codanna de chartlann Chonradh na Gaeilge a dhigitiú.  D'oibrigh mé roimhe seo   i Leabharlann Náisiúnta  na hÉireann  (NLI), áit a raibh mé  i mo  ghrianghrafadóir digiteach don Bhailiúchán ‘Towards a Republic’.    Bíonn raon trealaimh á úsáid agam i nGaillimh chun an bailiúchán a dhigitiú. Déanann an tionscadal digiteach príomhcháipéisí ó fheachtais Chonradh na Gaeilge ó na 1960idí i leith a dhigitiú. I measc théamaí an bhailiúcháin tá seirbhísí teilifíse agus raidió Gaeilge, stádas na Gaeilge mar theanga oifigiúil de chuid an AE, an Ghaeilge sa chóras oideachais, reachtaíocht teanga, Gluaiseacht Chearta Sibhialta na Gaeltachta, rialachas áitiúil don Ghaeltacht mar aon le cainteoirí Gaeilge i dTuaisceart Éireann. Ach leagan digiteach den chartlann a bheith ar fáil don phobal níos leithne, cuirfear go mór lenár dtuiscint ar an bpróiseas...

  February 2023, Maeve O' Neill I was employed at the University of Galway in July  2022   to digitise sections of the archive of Conradh na Gaeilge . Prior to this I  worked a t the National Library  of Ireland  (NLI), where I  was  a digital photographer on the ‘Towards a Republic’ Collection.    In Galway I work with a range of equipment to digitise the collection. The digital project digitises key documents from the Conradh na Gaeilge campaigns since the 1960s. Themes covered include Irish language television and radio services, the status of Irish as an official EU language, Irish in the education system, language legislation, the Gaeltacht Civil Rights Movement, local governance for the Gaeltacht and Irish speakers in Northern Ireland. When available to a broader public through digitisation, the archive will greatly enrich our understanding of the process of state formation in Ireland and the continuing use of the Irish language th...

Help spread the word to create a national inventory of Open Repositories. Repository owners/managers can register their Irish Open Access Repository at https://universityofgalway.ie/openrepositories/register/ by Thursday, 16 March 2023, at 17:00.    This is the first step in a National Open Research Forum (NORF) project where many great partners are aiming to create a sustainable national community for Irish Open Repositories. This project strengthens our existing national network of repositories for open access publications. Work will audit, reinforce, and align the repository network to each other and to international best practice.  Open repositories are typically operated by research active institutions to openly publish their own research. For example, University of Galway open repository is the open access publications and data repository .  More impactful openness and alignment At the moment, most Irish open repositories take different approaches to meta...