Last Call for Book Orders !

The Aungier Street Library will be completing it's book ordering for this year in the third week of November 2008 and will not be recommencing until the end of January 2009.

As you will appreciate it takes time to source and order new material so the earlier we have your requests in the better chance we have of having them available to students as promptly as possible.

Orders can be placed on the Book Purchase link on the library page of the DIT website http://www.dit.ie/library/a-z/bookpurchases/ or you can contact me directly at Ciaran.quinn@dit.ie or at ext.7166.

Information needed includes: Author, Title, Publisher, Year of publication, Edition, Essential or Supplementary Reading,Course Code, number of students in the class and number of copies required.

It would also be appreciated if you could check the shelves in the Library that pertain to your subject and let us know if any of the titles are obsolete and need to be removed/updated.

Image Searching on the Internet

Calling all Photography, media and design students and staff!
"Internet for Image Searching" is a new, free online tutorial to help staff and students in universities and colleges to find digital images for their learning and teaching:

http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/tutorial/imagesearching/

The emphasis of the tutorial is on finding copyright cleared images which are available free; facilitating quick, hassle-free access to a vast range of online photographs and other visual resources.

This tutorial has been created by TASI - the JISC Advisory Service for digital media, and Intute as part of the Virtual Training Suite, with funding from the Higher Education Academy/JISC Collaboration Initiative.

Top Ten Global Insurance Companies

The US subprime crisis has led to turbulence in the financial services industry and is likely to have significant impact on insurance companies. The capital and stock market turbulence is likely to moderate the growth in the life insurance market, while pricing pressures and economic slowdown in industrialized markets are likely to flatten the growth in the non-life insurance market.

The Top Ten Global Insurance Companies is a new report published by Business Insights that examines market dynamics in the retail insurance sector focusing on the top ten insurance companies. This new report highlights the strengths and weaknesses of the top ten insurers, analyzes the reasons behind the growth of their businesses and indicate any potential problems they could face in the short term. Through analysis and forecasts, this report provides insight into the direction of the retail insurance market. See it on the library website at www.dit.ie/library. Select Reuters Business Insights from the A-Z list of databases.

Free Online Access to all SAGE journals until October 31, 2008

SAGE Journals Online provides users access to more than 500 journals in business, social science, humanities, science, technology, and medicine.

Earlier this year SAGE celebrated the launch of the 500th journal on the SAGE Journals Online platform.

To mark the occasion SAGE are offering free online access to over 500 SAGE journals with content available from 1999-date until October 31, 2008.

Since DIT Library already subscribes to several Sage journals, no registration is required to access the free content. Simply go to http://www.online.sagepub.com/ and browse or search all Sage journals.