Bestsellers in the Library!

Missed out on some of the top business bestsellers this Christmas? Then you will be pleased to hear that the Library has them all!

Amongst recent arrivals are:

Fintan O'Toole's Ship of Fools: how stupidity and corruption sank the Celtic Tiger;

Matt Cooper's Who really runs Ireland?;

Shane Ross's The Bankers and

Marc Coleman's Back from the Brink - Ireland's road to recovery.

TaxFind seamless access restored

Seamless access for the TaxFind database has been restored for users accessing the database from within DIT's network.

Users accessing TaxFind from outside DIT's network will still need to log in with a username and password.

Call the library at 402-3068 or use the Ask a Librarian service if you have any questions about using TaxFind.

New Reports from Mintel

Mintel has issued a number of new reports in the last 6 months that may be of interest. These include:

The impact of cross border shopping - July 2009
Capitalising on the short breaks market in Ireland - July 2009
Evaluating the commercial benefits of Online social networking - September 2009
Online Banking - December 2009
Expansion of non-food items in supermarkets - December 2009
Redefining the lifestyle of the 55+ Irish consumer - December 2009.

Plans for 2010 include reports on Online Shopping, Ready Meals, Food to go, Convenience Retailing, Own label brands, Reaction to the recession - changes in shopping behaviour, new media and the Irish consumer as well as the annual Irish Lifestyles report - the theme of which has yet to be decided.
Access via the library website under Databases.

More on Budget 2010

The Department of Finance's Budget 2010 website provides access to the full text of the Minister's speech, the Summary of Budget Measures and the Annexes to the Summary of Budget Measures, which include illustrative examples of the impact of Budget 2010 on different categories of income earners.

Minister for Finance's Budget Speech December 9th 2009

The full text of today's Budget Speech is available on the Irish Times website at http://www.irishtimes.com/indepth/budget2010/speech/, where you can peruse it at your leisure!

WARC - Advertising & Marketing information

WARC (World Advertising Research Centre)

Did you know that WARC (World Advertising Research Centre), one of the Databases from the Library, is loaded with information in the form of Articles, Case Studies and Reports covering Advertising, Marketing, Media, Brands and much more? WARC is updated on a regular basis so you are assured of getting something of interest should you take a look at what WARC has to offer. Have a moment to spare? Why don’t you take a look at WARC where you can easily set up an alert service which will notify you by e-mail each time something new is added to your area of interest.

US Legal Cases & journals on Google Scholar

Google Scholar now has access to full text legal opinions from U.S. federal and state district, appellate and supreme courts. You can find these opinions by searching for cases (like Planned Parenthood v. Casey), or by topics (like desegregation) or other queries that you are interested in. Click on the "Legal opinions and journals" radio button and type in what you are interested in –for example try the query separate but equal. Your search results will include links to many cases on this, cases such as Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board of Education, which explore the acceptability of "separate but equal" facilities for citizens at two different points in the history of the U.S. Search results will also include opinions from cases that might not have made the headlines but which nevertheless played an important role in establishing precedents that guided the rulings of many other judges in similar cases.