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Alexander Street Press has provided 12 months trial access to the online resource  British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries. British and Irish Women’s Letters and Diaries   includes over 100,000 pages of material assembled from numerous bibliographies and from newly conducted research. Alongside the published material are 4,000 facsimile pages of previously unpublished manuscripts. Further information on this collection is available  at:  http://alexanderstreet.com/products/british-and-irish-womens-letters-and-diaries Trial access is available until  15 June 2014  via: http://www.library.nuigalway.ie/aboutourcollections/databases/databasetrials/databasetrialfeedback/trialfeedback-britishirishwomenswriters/ Please complete the feedback form available from the link above if this resource is of interest to you. There is also a link to this resource from the library catalogue:  http://www.library.nuigalway.ie/

Teachers TV from Education in Video This is the first online collection of streaming video developed specifically for training and developing teachers. Upon completion, the collection will contain more than 3,000 video titles totalling 1,300 hours of teaching demonstrations, lectures, documentaries, and primary-source footage of students and teachers in actual classrooms. It will give education faculty, students, and in-service teachers a single source for the best research-based professional development video resources available. This release now provides 3,530 titles, equalling approximately 840 hours. Access to Teachers TV is now available via http://www.library.nuigalway.ie

Please note that access to your final year results will be blocked if you have overdue loans or fines on your library account. The same applies to any outstanding course fees. To ensure you can access your final year results you should return any overdue books to the library and pay any outstanding fines through print credit by following this link -  https://printcredit.nuigalway.ie/webcentre/Login.aspx Please check your library account to make sure it is clear -  http://www.library.nuigalway.ie/ Following the return of any overdue books and the payment of fines, access to your results will be granted within 24 hours. If you have any queries please email library@nuigalway.ie or call 091 493399 Customer Service Desk James Hardiman Library NUI Galway

Having looked at our loan usage patterns we are increasing the number of times you can renew a book loan from 3 to 5 times as long as no other user has requested the book. This change will take effect from 1st June , 2013.   Additional information on renewing books is available here

A trial of Drama Online (beta version) is available until Wednesday 29 May. For further information about Drama Online click here . To access this trial click here Please complete the feedback form available from the trial link above if this resource is of interest to you.

Peace Process: Layers of Meaning is a hybrid project involving collaboration between Queen Mary, University of London, Trinity College Dublin and Dundalk Institute of Technology. The project has three main elements: the collection and storage of one hundred heritage interviews of the recollections and views of key figures in the Peace Process; the imparting of interview skills to students, teachers and community members in the border area; and the development of an online directory of all extant interviews relating to the Peace Process ( LOMOND ). The LOMOND directory is intended as a select but authoritative archive, maintained regularly and available on-line, providing an essential research tool for students across the educational spectrum. In the manner of a decades-long time-lapse camera, it will permit users to access an instructive and suggestive record of changes in thinking, in public styles and statements, in sets of possibilities, in pressures experienced and insights gai...

A trial of University Press Scholarship Online (UPSO) is now available. UPSO offers 11,000+ titles available in 25 subject areas from Oxford and 10 other leading university presses. It brings together the best scholarly publishing from around the world. Aggregating monograph content from leading university presses, UPSO offers an unparalleled research tool, making disparately published scholarship easily accessible, highly discoverable, and fully cross-searchable via a single online platform. Research that previously would have required a user to jump between a variety of books and disconnected websites can now be concentrated through the UPSO search engine. To access this trial click here Please complete the feedback form available from the link above if this resource is of interest to you.

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