EndNote Training for Staff and Post-grads

Aungier Street library will be running 2 introductory Endnote training sessions on Wednesday 28th November and Wednesday December 5th at 1:10pm. The venue is the library training room. The session will cover:
· Introduction to Endnote
· Creating an Endnote Library
· Manually adding references to an Endnote library
· Selecting a reference type and style
· Inserting references into a Word document.
· Deleting a reference from a Word document.

To book a place, please contact Israel Chidavaenzi at 402 7167 or email at Israel.chidavaenzi@dit.ie. Places are limited so they are offered on a first come first served basis. This session is for staff and PG students only.

Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive Repository (IVRLA)

Monday September 17th saw the launch of the Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive repository (IVRLA), a research strand within the Humanities Institute of Ireland and a key component in humanities research infrastructure for Irish third level institutions.

IVRLA is a digital archive containing a number of digitised collections from UCD’s holdings, of use and interest to Irish humanities researchers. The IVRLA has developed a sophisticated interface enabling users to browse, search, tag and cite digital objects and view or download them in a variety of file formats. The repository is accessible at http://ivrla.ucd.ie/

Have you used MetaFind?

Tired of repeating searches in multiple databases, catalogues, search engines? Let MetaFind make it easy. MetaFind provides a single interface which allows you to simultaneously search multiple sources in one fell swoop! Find it at http://library.dit.ie

Attitudes to Advertising

Mintel has recently added a number of new reports to its suite of Irish reports. “Attitudes to Advertising” (November 2007) provides detailed coverage of key drivers as well as the very latest volume and value data. Also included are assessments of emerging trends, the activities of existing market players, brand ownership details, future scenarios and statistical forecasts. Other recent additions include :

• The Night Out: is one venue enough? (November 2007)


• Wine: are we becoming more European in our outlook? (October 2007)


• The Day Out: where families spend money outside the home. (September 2007)

Access Mintel through the library web pages

Irish Times Digital Archive – Free Trial

The Library has arranged a free trial of The Irish Times Digital Archive for the month of November. It is a fully searchable online archive containing every page of The Irish Times published since the newspaper's foundation in 1859.

Follow the Irish Times link from the Library Database website http://www.dit.ie/DIT/library/resources/databases/index.html and click on the Digital Archive logo on the right of the screen.

We are trying to negotiate a site licence to cover all DIT users. Comments/feedback to Allison at ext. 3166, Israel at ext. 7167 or Ciaran at ext. 7166.

Embedded classes

Following DIT Library Services’ summer Information Literacy project, Aungier St Library has been working with academic staff to deliver embedded information literacy classes in a number of courses.

Aungier St librarians are currently delivering information skills courses of between four and seven hours in duration to first year students of the BSc in Accounting & Finance, BSc in Business & Legal Studies, BSc in Marketing, BA in Media Arts, BA in Photography, and BSc in Product Design. We also have several other courses in the pipeline.

Books from All over the World.

Are you searching for a book, report, paper or journal article which just does not seem to be available anywhere? We can help!

The Document Delivery service at Aungier Street Library can search all Irish and UK academic libraries for your request as well as the British Library Document Supply centre – the largest ‘lending factory’ in the world. We can even, through the British Library, initiate a world wide search for the item if it is important enough and borrow from anywhere in the world on your behalf. In addition we can organise electronic delivery of papers to your desktop. AND – there is a 24 hour delivery service available if the need is great.

Standard cost to the Library is €22 per book and €20 per paper. We charge our undergraduate users €6 per item and €8 for staff and post-graduates. (World-wide searches are obviously more expensive.) For further information contact Fiachra at 7176.

Information Literacy – A menu of choices!

Today’s students are surrounded by extraordinary quantities of information and often have difficulty in locating the right information effectively and ethically. Allison Kavanagh, assistant librarian at Aungier Street Library, was seconded for three months over the summer to examine the current and potential role of Library Services in achieving DIT’s strategic aim of producing information literate graduates.

As part of her report, Allison produced a menu of course options, with learning outcomes and objectives, which allows library and academic staff to work together in constructing an information skills course relevant to the level and needs of the students in question. A number of advanced courses aimed at staff and post-grads is also included.

The menu includes:

• Finding Books
• Finding Journal Articles from a citation
• Developing a Search Strategy and Using it in Library Databases
• Specialised Library Databases
• Effective Internet Searching and Evaluating Information
• Plagiarism, Referencing and Citing
• Endnote – introductory, intermediate and advanced courses
• Current Awareness for Researchers
• Citation Searching and using Journal Citation Reports.

If academic staff would like to organise a tailored session for their students please contact Allison at 3266, Israel at 7167 or Ciaran at 7166.