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Learn how to create 3D printable objects using the SketchUp Make software. Tuesday 27th September, 2016 from 4 to 5 pm in the library training room. Click the image below for further details.

Programme cover, T he Beauty Queen of Leenane, 1996 The Beauty Queen of Leenane  by Martin McDonagh was a point of departure for many reasons. When it opened to a world premiere production by Galway's Druid Theatre Company, in a co-production with London's Royal Court Theatre, on the first of February 1996, it also marked the opening of a new theatre building – Galway's Town Hall Theatre. The play would also be a whirlwind success for Druid and open up one of the most important and celebrated relationship's in contemporary Irish drama – that of director Garry Hynes and the plays of Martin McDonagh. it also, of course, exposed audiences both in Ireland and around the world, to a very different 'Irish' play. Within two years of the play's opening in Galway,  Beauty Queen  would make history and secure four Tony awards, including Best Director for Garry Hynes, the first female director to win the award. The play would tour extensively in Ireland, the...

This Friday, 16th September, sees another packed Culture Night across the country and across Galway city and county. The Archives of the Hardiman Library and NUI Galway bring you two events to keep you topped up with culture on this busy evening. First is a lunchtime event of music, song, spoken word and archives. Celebrating the heritage and culture of the West of Ireland, this event promises to be a special lunchtime gathering of a range of artists .The Galway Music Residency and NUI Galway invite you to join the Galway ConTempo Quartet in the President’s Drawing Room, NUI Galway, where you can view the historic art collection on display; a rare work by Lady Gregory’s son Robert, a portrait of actress Siobhan McKenna and more, with talks, readings and rare archival film, photographs and props from McKenna’s acting legacy and from the archives of Galway's celebrated company, Druid Theatre. Time: 1300 - 1430 Location: President's Drawing Room, NUI Galway Details: http://www.c...

We are currently updating essential software; the update process is affecting e-book access.  Instead of accessing content on the DawsonEra e-books site directly, we are getting warning screens about access not being secure. However you can still (securely!) access the e-book content you need. When the warning screen pops up, click on the 'Advanced' link at the bottom of the page. this brings up the link in the screenshot below, and you can click it to navigate through to the content. We're working on the upgrade as a priority, and don't worry, all access to e-book content is safe and secure.

On Wednesday, 7th of September from 08:00 - 10:00 , the following Library services will be unavailable in order to facilitate necessary maintenance: Online Book Ordering System Exam Papers Archive Our apologies for the inconvenience.

Tuesday 4 October 2016, Room G010, Hardiman Research Building, NUI Galway   This seminar tells the story of the Abbey Theatre Digital Archive, created by the largest theatre archive digitisation project undertaken worldwide. It reflects on challenges faced, lessons learned, new opportunities and impact on academic mission, library and archives.   Programme 1030 Registration and refreshments 1100 Welcome and Introduction (John Cox, University Librarian, NUI Galway) 1110 A brief history of the Abbey Theatre archive (Mairéad Delaney, Archivist, Abbey Theatre) 1140 Digitising the archive (Martin Bradley, Archives Consultant, and Aisling Keane, Digital Archivist, NUI Galway Library) 1210 The Abbey Theatre Early Minute Books Project (Cillian Joy, Digital Library Developer, NUI Galway Library, and Patricia O’Beirne, Abbey Digital Archive PhD Fellow, Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, NUI Galway) 1240 Lunch, including opportunity t...

How To Access Databases Finding databases is a very simple process: To choose a specific database you type the database name into the search box on the library homepage.  To see what databases are available on a specific topic you need to go to the list on the  Subject Support pages . You will need to use the 'Including Articles' functionality for cross searching across different databases. Remember, you have to be signed in first for this to work. If you want to find certain types of databases, e.g. reference, statistics, etc., then on the catalogue page choose  'Browse Search' . On the new page, choose ' By subject ' in the drop-down list, and then type " databases [type] ". So "databases reference" would bring a list of the reference resources the Library subscribes to: Note that links to Online Tutorials can be found on the right hand side under 'Details' Making Your Own Database Lists In The Catalogue You...

The digital archive of the Gate Theatre, Dublin, is now accessible in the Archives Reading Room of the Hardiman Building. Comprising a wealth of material in a range of formats and media, the archive and documents of one of Ireland's leading theatres, from the late 1980s to present, is newly open to study and research. Rosaleen lenihan as 'Mary Tyrone' in Eugene O'Neill's 'Long Day's Journey into Night', (1998) The scale of the archive and its digitisation ensures it is a vast resource for the study and understanding of plays performed at the Gate but also of Irish theatrical, social and wider cultural history. Already available within the digital archive are over 10,000 photographs, 11,000 press files, 6,500 pages of programmes, over 2,000 pages of play scripts, 1,700 pages of annotated prompt-scripts, 600 lighting designs and wealth of other material such as posters and handbills. Audio-visual material, including video recordings of producti...