Off-Campus Access to Online Library

Now that you're heading off on your Easter break, remember that you can still access the library's electronic journals, e-books and academic databases even if you're off-campus.

Our Off-Campus Access guide explains the authentication methods used to access these resources. 

If you need help with getting set up, or in using any of our electronic resources, please contact us via the Ask a Librarian service or by ringing us at 01-4023068.

Our opening hours for the next week are:

Sat 12 April: 10am - 5pm
Mon 14 April - Wed 16 April: 9am - 9pm
Thurs 17 April: 9am - 5pm
Fri 18 April - Mon 21 April: CLOSED
Tues 22 April: Full Term-Time Opening Hours resume

New electronic text books on BookBoon

BookBoon has added several new text books to its 'Essentials' series. These include Essentials of Statistics, Essentials of Macroeconomics and Strategic Marketing. Check them out at www.bookboon.com. Select Dublin Institute of Technology from the list of participating institutions.

University of California Press E-books

The University of California Press now has over 2000 e-books published between 1982 and 2004 available on their web site. Over 500 of the these are freely available for full text public access. Topics covered include sociology, politics, art, science, history, music, religion and fiction. Search as normal using the Advanced Search and then limit your search results under the SHOW tag to public access books. Have a browse at

http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/

E-books - Anywhere, Anytime

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 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.

High demand Laurie Mullins e-book available

Laurie Mullins, Management and Organisational Behaviour is in high demand and lots of students are looking for the 2010 9th edition before the exams. Don't panic!! This book is available as an e-book and can be accessed at any time both internally in DIT and remotely from your own laptop or PC. Search as usual in the library catalogue and select the copy with the Digital Media link. It takes just a few minutes for the book to load and you can start at the beginning or just go into selected chapters. Please contact the library Service Point at 4023068 if you have any problems accessing this title.

New E-Books from BookBoon

BookBoon has added a number of new free e-books which might be of interest to business and information systems users.

New titles include:

Portfolio Theory & Financial Analysis
Project Leadership -step by step: Part II
Microsoft Office Excel
Microsoft Office Word
Perl for Beginners

E-Books Training for academic and library staff

Want to know more about Electronic books? Did you know that e-books can be annotated and given added value as part of your teaching activity? Mark Baulch from Coutts, our current e-books supplier, will be giving a training session on MyiLibrary, the e-books platform, in Aungier Street Library Training Room 1 on Monday, 6th.September at 2pm. If you are interested in attending please send your name to Anne Ambrose, College Librarian.

Aungier St. Library goes Electronic!

The Library now has a policy of purchasing e-texts where they are available, the price is right and especially when multiple copies of a text are required. Our current provider is Coutts who run the MyiLibrary system. We will initially purchase a 3 simultaneous-user license for each title. When a title is being used by 3 people concurrently and a 4th. person logs in - Coutts will not prevent this access. However, if a title is continuously being accessed over the license limit, Coutts will advise the library and we will have the option of increasing to a 5-user license or higher. Four new titles recently received are:

> Flagship marketing: concepts and places / Tony Kent and Reva Brown.
> Fundamentals of Strategy / Gerry Johnson.
> The DNA of customer experience: how emotions drive value / Colin Shaw.
> Marketing management and strategy / Peter Doyle.

These are all available on the catalogue just like their hardcopy equivalents. Take a look and let us know what you think. We would really appreciate your feedback.

The Institute for the Future of the Book

Some interesting research is being carried out by the Institute for the Future of the Book. Based in New York the website describes the Institute as "a small think-and-do tank investigating the evolution of intellectual discourse as it shifts from printed pages to networked screens. We are funded generously by the MacArthur Foundation, and affiliated with the University of Southern California". Some of their projects to date include:

# Expressive Processing »
# The Googlization of Everything »
# Gamer Theory »
# MediaCommons »
# In Media Res »
# HASTAC digital learning report »
# Operation Iraqi Quagmire »
# The Holy of Holies »
# Without Gods »
# IT IN place »
# The Gates Memo

E-Books - New Business Titles and Free Travel Guides

Four new business titles in the BookBoon ebook service may be of interest. Three are in their "Essentials Series" - Essentials of Macroeconomics, Essentials of Marketing Research and Essentials of Marketing Research Exercises. The fourth is a useful introduction to project management entitled Project Leadership Step by Step.
For those of you planning holidays abroad their free travel guide series covering Europe, the Far East and South America, might be worth a look.
Access BookBoon under the Electronic Books link on the library webpages at www.dit.ie/library

New E-books from BookBoon

BookBoon has added a number of new e-books to their collection which might be of interest to Business and Information Systems people. These include:

Strategic Financial Management,
Accounting,
Dynamic Costing,
Demystifying Case interviews,
Jave: the fundamentals of objects and classes - an introduction to Java Programming,
IT and Programming.

Take a look on the BookBoon Site.

New e-texts from BookBoon

BookBoon added seven new textbooks to its collection of e-books in September - some of which may be of interest to Aungier Street staff and students. These include:
* Strategic Financial Management - theory.
* Strategic Financial Management - Exercise book
* Objected Oriented programming using Java
* Understanding Computer Simulation
* An Introduction to relational database theory.

Access electronic books via the Library website HERE

New E-Books available

Check out the 15+ new full text e-books recently added to the Bookboon collection. Interesting titles include:

>The Accounting Cycle
>Current Assets within Accounting
>Classes in Java Applications
>C Programming in Linux
>Managing the Human Resource in the 21st Century
>Project Management

Access the ebook collection on the Library website or Link Here