Mature Students and the Library

Returning to study, after being out of the education system for some time, is daunting for anyone. Mature students, in particular, can find it tough. They may be working full time or have onerous commitments outside of college. They are very often short of time and find it hard to learn about and fully utilise all of the college resources available to them.
Anne Jennings hopes to change all that - at least where the library is concerned! Anne has just been officially appointed our mature student liaison person. She can be contacted at 4027168 or at the library desk.
As a very successful mature student herself up to this year, Anne has a particular knowledge of and empathy towards this group so if you want to know about finding books and journals, using the printers/copiers, using electronic databases and e-journals, visiting other libraries and more - just give her a call.

The Green Agenda

Green is the colour of choice in the library this month. Check out our New Books section across from the Main Service Point. Amongst the new titles you will find books on Green Marketing, the Green Consumer, Green Logistics - even Green MBAs! Apart from those shown above check out also Clean Money by John Rubins, Financial Intelligence: Green Money by Sarah Pennells, The Green Guide for Business by Chris Goodall, Green to Gold by Daniel Esty and Green Business by Bibi Van Der Zee.

Sage Open - looking for business

SAGE Open is a new open access publication from SAGE. It will publish peer-reviewed, original research and review articles in an interactive, open access format. Articles may span the full spectrum of the social and behavioral sciences and the humanities. Find out more including submission guidelines at www.sageopen.com

Programme Documents Online

Did you know that programme documents are available online via the Library Catalogue? To find them just select Subject Search from the catalogue menu and type in the following:
Programme document DIT College of Business OR
Programme document DIT College of Arts and Tourism Aungier Street Library
depending on what you are looking for. The documents are then listed by course code.

Printing from Laptops now available in Aungier St. Library

You can now print from any laptop running Windows 2000, Vista, Windows XP, Windows 7 and Mac OS10.6 in the library and in all the Wifi zones throughout the Aungier Street campus. All you need to do is download the necessary drivers. Full instructions are available HERE
To print select File/Print in any application and you will see the print queues. Enter your student number to release your print job. If you have any problems please contact Ricoh support at ditsupport@ricoh.ie or ring their helpdesk at 086-2832008.

Self Service a huge success!

Students have taken to self service at Aungier Street Library like the proverbial ducks to water. Statistics for January 2011 show that, of the 5,239 items checked out during that month, 3,581 of them were through the self service machines. This works out at 67.2% of total checkouts. Average use of non-RFID self service machines in other libraries is approximately 35% so this is definitely a success story. A very well done to all involved and particulary to Fiachra Mangan as manager of the self service project and to library staff for promoting the service and teaching users how to do it for themselves!

E-books - Anywhere, Anytime

Staff Access from Home to Databases, E-Journals and E-Books

Staff who have recently received new "smart" ID cards will know that these cards are also their Library Cards for entering, borrowing, using self service and photocopying services in the Library. One change that has come about as a result of these new cards is that, to access library e-resources from outside of DIT, staff must now enter their staff number as their username. You can use the same PIN that you have always used. Please contact the Library at 3068 if you have any problems with the new system.

New Staff ID/Library Cards

DIT has recently introduced new 'smart' ID cards for all staff. These ID cards also serve as your library card and may be used in any DIT Library. The new card makes getting into Aungier Street Library a lot easier too. Just wave the card at the top of the turnstile! You can also use it to issue and return books at the Self Service machines. Once you have your new card it takes 24 hours for your 'record' to transfer over to the library system so you cannot use the card to borrow for that period. If you have books out on your old card, they will be transferred to the new one.

How to apply for a Staff Card
Go to the Registrations Office at either:
Aungier Street - 4027120 or Bolton Street - 4023883
to have your photograph taken and your card produced.

If you have any queries or you need help with your Staff Card please contact registration.service@dit.ie where the Registration Staff will be happy to help you.

Turning the page: the future of e-books

An interesting new study by Price Waterhouse Cooper examines trends and developments in the e-books and e-reader market in the US, UK Netherlands and Germany.
The study identifies market opportunities and asks if a new generation of e-readers may, at last, achieve the long awaited breakthrough that lures consumers away from paper and ink. Read the full report on the PWC website HERE

New Opening Hours at Aungier Street Library

The Library is pleased to announce that it will remain open late on Thursday evenings for the foreseeable future. This has been enabled by a small increase in staff numbers. Opening hours are 9.30am to 9.30pm Monday to Thursday inclusive. On Friday we close at 5.30pm and Saturday hours are 10.00am to 5.00om.

New E-books at Aungier Street Library

Check out these and other new e-books available from the library HERE. Business books are mainly in the MyILibrary and Bookboon collections and can also be accessed in the usual way through the library catalogue.

FAME Training: 24th February 2011

FAME is migrating to a new interface. Their representative Georgie will provide training in New FAME from 11.00 - 12.30 on Thursday 24th February in Library Training Room 1. Here is Georgie's outline of what the session will cover: "The aim of the fame training will be to take you through the new interface. I will guide you through the additional sections in a company report and take you through the data, how to format the report to contain the data you require, how to build searches from the new layout and how to build an analysis along with all the additional features."

Training is open to academic and library staff. Interested research students should contact their supervisor who can book them on the session.

Please contact Allison Kavanagh (3266) to reserve a place.