Keep Quiet!

Christmas Opening @ Aungier St

Dublin City Public Libraries' Business Centre is hosting a FREE workshop on Using Social Media to Find a Job facilitated by career coach Greg Fry on Thursday 13th December 1:30pm-2:30pm.

Greg Fry founded Careers Coach and also is a lecturer at the Digital Marketing Institute. He is a qualified Career Coach and holds a Marketing Degree. Greg assists jobseekers find their right career path and shows them how to become proactive jobseekers.

In this talk, Greg will look at how to network online, where to find hidden jobs and how to build an online presence that will attract an employer’s attention.

The workshop is FREE but booking is essential.

To book contact: 

Business Information Centre
Dublin Central Library
ILAC Shopping Centre
Henry Street
Dublin 1
Tel: 01 8733996
email: businesslibrary@dublincity.ie

For more information on workshops and sessions in the Business Information Centre please click here

How Do They Make Money?

For you business students, here's an interesting site offering a quick overview of top tech companies and their revenue models across advertising, subscriptions, affiliates, selling data, royalties etc.

You can access it here

Halloween @ Aungier St Library

Career Workshop

Dublin City Public Libraries' Business Centre, as part of their Career Direction and Development Programme, will host a  FREE workshop entitled 'Converting Your Career in Today's Market'. The workshop will be hosted by career coach Jane Downes who will provide useful tips on adapting your skills to the current job market.

Jane is one of Irelands best known Career Coaches and author of The Career Book– Help for the Restless Realist. She owns Clearview Coaching Group, a Career Coaching and Training business which she established in 2004 following an extensive career working in the area of recruitment and HR consulting. In addition, Jane regularly writes for the National Press and currently holds the position of weekly career doctor with the Metro Herald and is regularly invited to speak on national radio. In 2010 Jane held the position of weekly Career Expert on TV3’s “ The Morning Show”.

The workshop will take place in the Business Information Centre, Central Library, on 13th November, 2012, at 1pm.
Admission is FREE and all are welcome. However, due to popular demand, booking is recommended, either in person at the Business Information Centre, or by telephoning (01) 873 3996, or by emailing businesslibrary@dublincity.ie

Business Information Centre
Central Library
Ilac Shopping Centre
Henry Street, Dublin 1 

For more information on workshops and sessions in the Business Information Centre please click  here
                   

Your Welfare Rights -Free Information Day

Dublin City Public Libraries' Business Centre will provide a FREE information and advice stand providing information on Welfare, Work, Education and Training Options for unemployed people.

The stand is entitled "Your Welfare Rights" and will focus on the latest edition of the booklet "Working for Work" 19th edition, which was recently published by the Irish National Organisation of the Unemployed (I.N.O.U.).

If you have any general queries in relation to Social Welfare entitlements, you can visit the Business Information Cente, from 2.30pm - 4.30pm on Tuesday, 23rd October, 2012, where a member of staff from the I.N.O.U. will be on hand to assist.

If you have a specific or a personal query, you can arrange to make a private appointment with the I.N.O.U. at a later date.

For details contact:

Business Information Centre

Central Library

Ilac Shopping Cente

Henry Street, Dublin 1

Tel: 01 873 3996

For more information on workshops and sessions in the Business Information Centre please click here

Term Opening Hours @ Aungier St Library

Access to Fame database restored

Access to the Fame database has now been restored. Apologies again for any inconvenience.

Access to Fame Database

We have temporarily lost access to the Fame database due to a technical fault. Access will be restored as soon as possible. Apologies for this inconvenience.

Off Campus Access to electronic resources

DIT Library subscribes to a variety of electronic resources. Access to these services is restricted to current DIT Staff and Students who are registered with the Library. If you would like to access our services from outside the DIT network please follow the steps below:

1. Go to: http://dit.ie/library/index.html

2. Choose Databases or Electronic Journals or ebooks

3. You willl be asked for Authentication in one of the following ways:

• ID Number and Library PIN *
• /Institutional Login** choose "Irish Edugate Federation" then DIT . At the "Logon to DIT IS" screen input your DIT no. and email password.
• Unique Username and Password - see Usernames and Passwords file below.

* How to create a PIN 

** /Institutional Login or Shibboleth or Irish Edugate

 If you have any difficulty please contact one of our libraries.

  Usernames and Passwords

Aungier St. Library will be closed on Monday 6th August.

Upper Floor Re-opens @ Aungier St

The building works on the stairwell in Aungier St Library have been completed ahead of schedule, and the upper floor of the library is open again.
Apologies for the inconvenience of the last few days.

Building Works at Aungier St

Due to essential building works, the upper floor of the library will be closed from Friday 20th July until 1st August. Please ask at the Service Point if you require any materials.
Apologies for this inconvenience.

Summer Opening @ Aungier St.

FAME Database

Fame is Changing the way it manages SIC Codes In October 2011 the UK SIC 2007 codes were added to Fame. These are the official codes used by Companies House and replace the 2003 classification. Currently Fame includes both the 2003 and 2007 versions of the UK SIC codes. In early June (2012) the 2003 classifications will be removed from Fame. The 2007 classification offers more detail for companies in the IT services and related industries. Converting your codes Fame has a tool to help you convert the UK SIC 2003 codes to UK SIC 2007. You can find this in the Help menu on Fame under "TOOLS".

Library Opening Hours

We apologise for the closure of Aungier Street library last night at very short notice.  This was caused by unexpected staff sickness. 

The normal library opening hours will resume today, Wednesday.  

We are reviewing our response to this situation in order to minimise the impact on library services in future.

Philip Cohen
Head of Library Services.

Aungier Street Library Closing at 5pm

The library at DIT Aungier Street will close today Tuesday 8th May at 5pm.

This is due to a staffing shortage. The nearest alternative library is at DIT Kevin Street.

The computer labs in Aungier Street will remain open this evening.

May Bank Holiday

DIT Green Week

Here's a photo of the library's Green Week Display highlighting the 2012 DIT Green Week which commenced April 22nd.  The display can be viewed at the library entrance.

Arrow Statistics, March, 2012
4210 records, 53040 full-text downloads and 65 new submissions were posted in March, 2012

Most Popular Papers

The most popular papers were: URL Downloads (Number is of Downloads)
Learning Theories and Higher Education click here 773
Power Quality in Grid Connected Renewable Energy Systems: Role of Custom Power Devices Click here 731
Festivals, events and tourism Click here 636

Most Popular Publications were:
Conference papers electrical Engineering Click here 4572
Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies Click here 3319
Articles: Hospitality Management and Tourism. Click here 2004

GREEN WEEK

Week beginning April 23rd is Green Week in DIT. The aim of the week is to raise awareness and provoke debate in DIT about Green issues such as climate change, energy use and planning. The Aungier Street Library is running an exhibition on Green issues so if you have any material (articles, websites etc) that you think we should include in the exhibition, please send your suggestions to Anne Jennings in the Library in Aungier Street: Phone 01-4027168, E-mail - anneDOTjennings.dit.ie

Easter Opening Hours at Aungier St

Arrow@DIT

        In January, 2012  ARROW@DIT had 41,486 full-text downloads and 29 new submission.

The most popular papers were:

• Power Quality in Grid Connected Renewable Energy Systems: Role of Custom Power
• Devices (671 downloads)http://arrow.dit.ie/engscheleart/144
• Learning Theories and Higher Education (568 downloads)http://arrow.dit.ie/engscheleart/4
• Sol-Gel Synthesis and Characterisation of Novel Metal Oxide Nanomaterials for Photocatalytic Applications (356 downloads)http://arrow.dit.ie/sciendoc/89

The most popular publications were:

• Conference papers (3909 downloads)
• http://arrow.dit.ie/engscheleart
• Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies (2728 downloads) http://arrow.dit.ie/ijass
• Doctoral (1806 downloads)http://arrow.dit.ie/sciendoc

ARROW@DIT now holds 4114 records, which have been downloaded a total of 621,430

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Business Source Premier gone!

For so long we have been used to talking about Business Source Premier – this is no longer available – its time to think and talk about Business Source Complete.


DIT's subscription to Business Source Premier has been upgraded to Business Source Complete, meaning an enhanced access to even more resources. Our access to Academic Search Complete and Business Source Complete has been made possible by IREL who have paid our subscription for 2012.

This link give more details about Business Source Complete, click here

Remember Business Source Premier (BSP) is now gone - completely gone!

Past Exam Papers

As you are all aware, now is the busy time in the run up to exams. It is during this time that we get some FAQs concerning access to past exam papers. Below are a few tips for you:

• You can access past exam papers via the library catalogue: http://library.dit.ie/

• The exam papers are password protected. NOTE: it is a different password to your Student Number and Library PIN. A list of all passwords for remote access to exam papers and databases can be accessed via the exam papers page. Click on the 'usernames and passwords list' link and input your student number and Library PIN when prompted. http://library.dit.ie/screens/exams.html

Search Tips for Aungier Street Students:

1. Ignore the search box when searching for exam papers. Instead, click on the Recent Exam Papers link which is located just below the search box.
2. Click on the relevant college link e.g. if you are studying a business subject scroll down to the 'College of Business, Aungier St.: examination papers' record and click on the link.
3. Here you see the past papers are sorted by year. Choose the year you wish to look at.
4. Here you will see the past papers sorted by course code. Scroll down to find your course code and click on the link.
5. Exam Papers are then sorted by sessional (Christmas and Summer exams) and supplemental (repeat). Click on the relevant link.
   
6. Here you will see the subjects available in pdf form for each class year e.g. 'DT341 1 Acc-Jan.pdf' is for 1st year, 'DT341 2 French-May.pdf' is for 2nd year.
7. Click on the relevant subject and print or save the pdf.

If you experience any problems accessing past exam papers please contact the library on (01) 402 3068 or through our Ask a Librarian service.

Good luck to all our students in their forthcoming exams!

New Opening Hours for 2012

A warm welcome back to all our students starting a new term. Here is a little reminder to you all of our new opening hours for this term.

Monday - Thursday: 9:00AM - 9:00PM
Friday: 9:00AM-5:00pm
Saturday: 10:00AM-5:00PM
Sunday: CLOSED

We look forward to seeing you all here in the library for the new term.