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Gaeilge has been introduced as a language interface option within some of Gale's database platforms, including Gale Primary Sources. Enabling this feature is very simple: once you log into a Gale database from the library website , e.g. Archives Unbound the interface language can be changed by clicking on the language drop down menu choices in the upper righthand corner and selecting Gaeilge. Once this language switch is made, key elements to the interface such as labels, buttons and menus on the page become translated.  This initiative has been supported by Maynooth University Library and Oifig na Gaeilge, Ollscoil Mhá Nuad.  Collection Development

  22 January 2021 marked the 120 th anniversary of the death of Queen Victoria. The Library has many resources which our readers can use to find out more about life in the Victorian era in Ireland, Britain and around the world. The broad-ranging Cambridge Companion to Victorian culture could be a good starting point. It is available online through the library catalogue. Some details of the lives of all classes of society can be gleaned from the census returns, taken every 10 years between 1841 and 1901, spanning almost the whole of Queen Victoria’s reign. The Find My Past database, to which the library subscribes, provides access to images and transcriptions of all of these census returns for England, Scotland and Wales. Unfortunately, only the 1901 Census returns for Ireland survive. Here we see an image of the return for Queen Victoria’s own family from the 1851 census in which Prince Albert is recorded as the head of the household. The census records the ages, occupatio...

Introducing The Academic Writing Centre Tutors The Academic Writing Centre ( AWC ) will reopen for virtual consultations on 2nd February 2021.   To book a consultation email awcbookings@nuigalway.ie  and please make sure to include your student number, your subject area, and your year of study. Please also confirm if you are registered with the DSS service.   The following are the AWC Tutors for this academic year: Beatrice Bichara Beatrice is a final year medical student and researcher with an undergraduate degree in East Asian Studies (Language and Philosophy stream). She enjoys writing in her free time, especially poetry. Through her studies in both Arts and the Sciences, she has discovered that these two fields complement and enrich each other. Eva Bromell Eva is an MA History student at NUI Galway. She has completed a BA in History and Léann an Aistriúcháin (study of translating to and from Irish). She has a great passion for learnig and academia as well as for ...

  We are currently experiencing some problems linking to journal articles from EBSCO databases from within the Library catalogue. The problems happen intermittently, so you might not always have difficulty getting to EBSCO articles. When clicking the link to access an EBSCO article, you may find yourself landing on the EBSCO databases homepage, rather than the article you’re looking for. The problem is only for EBSCO journal article links, linking to journal titles from the catalogue is working normally. We’ve reported the issue, and our system providers are actively working on a solution. Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause you. As a workaround, take a look at the catalogue entry to see what journal the article is published in:   You’ll also find the Volume, Issue and usually Page Number for the article too. All you have to do now is do a catalogue search for the Journal title, and follow the link through to the journal homepage. From...

Christmas Entertainments [1740]. This pocket sized item comes to us, like some many other titles in this field, from the Delargy collection. This, the personal library of the renowned folklore specialist, Seamus Ó Duilearga [James Delargy], includes many rare titles, and was originally acquired by the library in 1981. The original edition of this book was published in 1740 but, as it was intended to be used to entertain around a winter fire, it was, as the later publisher asserts “thumbed out of existence”. It is full of fantasy tales of conjurors, witches and fairies. This nineteenth century reprint is itself a rarity now and harks back to a time when household entertainment depended almost exclusively on the oral tradition and the idea of Netflix or Now TV was far in the future!

IReL   has recently purchased journal backfile collections from Sage, American Medical Association and Wiley on a p erpetual access basis. The Sage, American Medical Association and Wiley collections were chosen based on  usage denials  data: evidence that many IReL users had been attempting to read these articles but didn’t have access.  Access to the titles in these three journal backfile collections is now available from the   library catalogue. Collection Development

Trial access to all  Elsevier e-Books (29,989 titles) has been extended until  12th January 2021.  A complete title list is available  here. NOTE: Fulltext access is only available via the library catalogue.  Please log in to http://www.library.nuigalway.ie/ and search for the Elsevier e-book you wish to access.  We very much welcome feedback from staff and students on this trial of Elsevier e-Books. A link to a trial feedback form is available from each Elsevier e-book record on the library catalogue. Collection Development

The Library requests that academic staff submit module reading lists via the Reading List Service for next semester by Friday December 4th. This will give us sufficient time to: review the reading list purchase available e-books purchase print copies of new books process the digitisation of requested chapters/articles check e-links All reading lists must be created and published using the   Reading List System . This enables us to process the reading lists efficiently and manage the volume of ordering and digitisation requests. It also ensures ease of access for students via the Blackboard module.  There are a range of short helpful video tutorials as well as our  printed guide  available from our  Reading Lists Page .  Academic staff new to the Reading List Service, may be particularly interested in the the following tutorials: Creating and Structuring a Reading List Adding Resources and Publishing your Reading List Requesting a Book Chapter for Digitisa...