Media and Law Students

Last week two landmark legal actions took place: one was a family law case and the other –a case within a case- concerned the media’s right to report on it. A significant High Court ruling has subsequently allowed the media to report on only the legal issues and limited evidence, showing a relaxation on the in-camera rule normally in place for family law cases.

While reporting on the case is limited, the ruling is significant in that it shines a light on the otherwise secretive world of the family courts and its proceedings. In their report on the deaths of 200 children in state care, Geoffrey Shannon, a family law solicitor, and Norah Gibbons, a childcare expert, concluded that “By allowing a veil of secrecy to cover the work of the court in these types of issues, public confidence in the system is damaged and it prevents the recognition of good work and, in equal measure, the recognition of areas in need of reform.”

What has the above have to do with the library you may ask?

For our law students, we remind you that the library holds multiple titles on family law and divorce law in Ireland. On the media end of it, multiple newspapers reported and commented on the events above over the last week which may be of interest to our media and journalism students.

The library offers hard copies of both the Irish Times and the Irish Independent daily along with a range of other national and international titles. The library also provides access to the Irish Times epaper from within DIT. We also offer online access to Irish, UK and International newspapers through the Nexis UK database which can be accessed via the library website.

For more information on how to borrow or access any of these resources please ask a member of library staff.

ARROW@DIT

Arrow Statistics December, 2012


ARROW@DIT had 64672 full-text downloads and 39 new submissions were posted.

The most popular papers were:

Play and Technology for Children aged 4-12 (1196 downloads)

http://arrow.dit.ie/cserrep/2


Festivals, events and tourism (1053 downloads)

http://arrow.dit.ie/tfschhmtbook/1


E-Business in Supply Chain Management (790 downloads)

http://arrow.dit.ie/nitlbk/3


The most popular publications were:


Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies (4239 downloads) http://arrow.dit.ie/ijass
School of Electrical Engineering Systems, Conference Papers (4054 downloads)

http://arrow.dit.ie/engscheleart

School of Food Science and Environmental Health Articles (2322 downloads)

http://arrow.dit.ie/schfsehart


Commons

Arrow is part of the Digital Commons Network of Institutional Repositories which can now all be crossed searched. They have grouped all the content of all the repositories into areas of interest and these are called Commons for eg. The Engineering Commons or the Business Commons. Popularity is determined by the numbers of downloads per author or institution in these area.

During December Dublin Institute of Technology was among the most popular institutions in the following Commons

1. Arts and Humanities Commons

Arts and Humanities Commons. Arrow was popular in 6 out of 171 disciplines this month Audio Arts and Acoustics,Contemporary Art,Theory and Criticism.Music Pedagogy.Music Performance,Spanish Linguistics


2. Education Commons

Education Commons: Arrow was popular in 2 out of 35 disciplines this month this month: Adult and Continuing Education Administration,Educational Methods


3. Engineering Commons

Engineering Commons.Arrow was popular in 8 out of 102 disciplines this month:Bioelectrical and neuroengineering, Vision Science,Geotechnical Engineering,Computational Engineering,Power and Energy,
Engineering Science and Materials,Information and Library Science,Materials Science and Engineering


4. Business Commons

Business Commons: Arrow was popular in 2 out of 34 disciplines this month E-Commerce, Food and Beverage Management


5. Physical Sciences and Mathematics Commons

Physical Sciences and Mathematics Commons.:Arrow was popular in 6 out of 117 disciplines this month:Numerical Analysis and Computation,Artificial Intelligence and Robotics,OS and Networks,Analysis,
Other Mathematics,Applied Statistics


6. Life Sciences Commons

Life Sciences Commons Arrow was popular in 6 out of 112 disciplines this month:Bioinformatics,Biology, general.Biotechnology,Other Cell and Developmental Biology,Laboratory and Basic Science Research,Microbiology

Past Exam Papers

Due to a server error some of you may have recently experienced problems accessing past exam papers. The problem has now been rectified and all exam papers should now be accessible. If, however, you experience any difficulties accessing a particular year/paper, please contact the library via our Ask a Librarian service or on (01) 402 3068.

For those of you who are new to locating exam papers online please find a few tips below to help you:

• You can access past exam papers from the library homepage or via the library catalogue

• 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

• To learn how to find and access exam papers please consult our Getting Started: Examination Papers guide

We wish all our students the best of luck in their forthcoming exams and remember, if you require assistance please contact the library.