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Welcome from Institute President
resources, Library staff are happy to help you find just what you need for your study and research activities in this ‘information age’. I encourage you to make the most of this wonderful facility during your time in WIT.
I wish to extend a warm welcome to all students of Waterford Institute of Technology, with a very special word of welcome to our new students as you adjust to life in the college, its community and its environment. Take time to familiarise yourself with all that is on offer to you here, both academically and socially, and you will find much to engage your time and attention.
“Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.” (Samuel Johnson). There is much you can find by exploring Luke Wadding Library, and the newsletters will keep you updated on important events and helpful developments.
A service that we are particularly proud of is our award-winning Luke Wadding Library which has a wide range of facilities and assistance provide by our highly competent and knowledgeable staff. From traditional reference books and papers, to the many online digital
Ruaidhrí
Best wishes,
Dr. Ruaidhrí Neavyn President
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Welcome from Institute Librarian
Another busy year begins and I extend a cordial welcome to all new and returning students. Our library newsletters are one of the ways we help you perceive the array of resources the library has assembled expressly to support our learning community. The library’s resources are information resources and they range from specialised digital resources to historic manuscripts. Our resources are a tiny microcosm of the four million scientific publications per year, published in more than 100,000 specialist journals, and more than one million new books launched by around 65,000 publishers. We try to select and highlight services and resources which are relevant to your needs and our newsletter lets you know what we are up to.
Information has been described as the currency of the 21st century but, to be accurate, unless information is found, assessed and used then as a currency it has little value or convertibility. Our job as librarians is to contribute to your progression by providing you with the skills and reflexes to evaluate and use information effectively. In that regard I hope these newsletters will also introduce you to the talented, knowledgeable library staff who want to assist you to develop yourself. Please enjoy the newsletters – you’ll find some fun there too! And remember we look forward to meeting you virtually and/or in person this year. Of course, as always, we are keen to hear your questions, suggestions, and recommendations. -
Ted Lynch Librarian
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Introducing Our Libraries Luke Wadding Library
The Luke Wadding Library, located on the Cork Road campus, opened in 2000 and is the central library for Waterford Institute of Technology. Facilities in the award-winning stateof- the-art Luke Wadding Library include:
in excess of 1,000 reader spaces over 3 floors technology-rich learning spaces including: suites of pc’s, wireless internet access, individual study spaces, group study and seminar rooms, printing and photocopying services a rooftop cafeteria Over 270 laptop charge points. In addition
we house a collection of over 200,000 books, journals and audiovisual materials we provide 24/7 access to over 120,000 eBook titles we stock a vast array of online journals and research databases, accessible both on and off campus.
Library staff offer friendly, on-demand, help and training to all students in finding and using the information that they need to succeed at third level and into their future careers.
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College Street Campus Library College Street Campus Library is the smaller of the two libraries in Waterford Institute of Technology. The library facilitates courses taught in College St. Campus and the Granary Campus. Subjects stocked in the library include legal studies, social care, architecture, education, music, and art & design. College Street Campus Library includes over 35,000 print materials. There are over 60 print journals and access is available to thousands of online journals through the extensive databases available on our suite of pc’s. Important print journals include two law journals The All England Law Reports kept from 1558 and the The Irish Reports kept from 1894. Ebrary gives access to e-books in the subject areas specified above in the College St. Campus. The College took over the Good Shepherd Convent in 1994 and the library has been in place since that time. There is a small but dedicated staff who work very much as a team in serving the students and staff of College Street. We have an extensive music collection; resources accessible include databases, records, CDs, music
scores, and cassettes. The library also houses a valuable music special collection, The Rosen Collection. The Rosen Collection is a collection of some 7,000 items, mainly musical scores and books of music items belonging to Dr. Hans Waldemar Rosen, which was bequeathed to WIT by his family in 2004. User education is available from the library staff and can be booked at the issue desk at any time throughout the year. Tutorials for user education are held in the library’s own adjacent computer room. The library has its own computer area and there are some 60 study places, with laptop charge points, in the building as well as 12 computers in the library and a scanning facility. The library itself is a Wi-Fi area. The issue desk doubles as an information desk to take queries from students and staff. The library also has a dedicated study room for use by students situated next to the library. Contact Details: Telephone: 051-302262 E-Mail: libinfo@wit.ie
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WIT Library Information Service‌
Do you have an assignment to do but are not sure where to begin? Are you a new or returning student?
Why not call to our Library Information Service? The information service is located directly behind the circulation desk at entry level in the Luke Wadding Library. The information service team is pleased to answer queries and offer assistance and advice on all aspects of the library service.
We can: give you a guide on your subject area show you how to find books and journals in the library refer you to the best online databases for your assignments show you how to access the databases from home and help you to find good quality resources on the Internet
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…We’re here to help you.
WIT Library Information Service Opening Hours September 2013 Monday – Friday 10am - 1pm & 2pm - 4pm Saturday 10am – 1pm
Your Information Services Team: Seamus Ryan; Clare Blount; Maria McCarthy; David Jackman; John Phelan; John Moloney; Delia Foley; Derek Langford; Patricia Burke; Tina Hurley; Therese O'Neill
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Your Library in Numbers
39
Databases
120, 000 E-book titles
29
Library staff
66
6
In-house library training programmes
Opening hours per week
340
2
Branch Libraries
Print journal titles
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3
5000
Special collections
Short loan books
28
4
Information Services opening hours per week
Seminar rooms available
2 Number of weeks long term loans can be borrowed for
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Learning Support: Library Know-How WIT Libraries’ learning support [information literacy] programme is designed to help students at both undergraduate and postgraduate level to become competent library users and to develop independent research skills. All programmes run throughout the academic year and students are usually booked in through their lecturers/course leaders.
First Year Students The Library Learning Support programme for our first year undergraduates consists of a one-hour workshop. The focus of the hour is to make the students aware of the resources available both physically in the library and online through the library website and how these can be best utilised when completing assignments. In particular, the focus is on helping the students develop the research skills to be able to identify which library resources would help them at each step of the research process. The importance of evaluating results is also highlighted.
Second and Third Year and Final Year Students
use of electronic resources and the development of critical thinking skills for assignment work. The focus for final year students is on the advanced use of electronic resources with an emphasis on critical thinking and evaluation skills.
Postgraduate Students and Staff The Library Learning Support programme for taught postgraduates focuses on the advanced use of the library’s resources for research level students. Sessions for research postgraduates and staff may be booked on an individual or small group basis and are developed according to specific research interests.
If you would like any further information or to book a library tutorial, please contact: Library Learning Support Ext: 2837 / CSC Library: 2262 / E-mail: lls@wit.ie
The focus of the training for second and third years and final year students is to build on previous skills. For second and third year students this focuses on the best
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eBooks at WIT Libraries In changing times of student learning, academic course provision and continued professional development, WIT Libraries continue to enhance its electronic book (eBook) collection with the acquisition and integration of collections including Ebrary, Project Guttenberg and CUFTS. Benefits of eBooks include:
Being available when you need them.
Accessible on a multiplatform basis:
24 hours a day, 365 days a year
e-readers, laptops, tablets and smart phones
Easily searchable and retrievable via the library catalogue
No overdue borrowing fines!
As of 1st September there are in excess of 86,000 eBooks available through Ebrary on an extensive range of subject areas relating to business, humanities, science, health science, engineering, education and lifelong learning. Furthermore two freely available and noncopyright protected collections; Project Guttenberg and CUFTS provide access to over 43,000 eBooks and 9,000 eJournals for our users. Whenever you see the Click to access, CUFTS connect or Gutenberg connect icons on the library catalogue, this will denote the item is available electronically.
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EBooks are not designed to replace the physical book but to open library resources to a wider user population with evolving needs. WIT Libraries would encourage our users to engage with the rich and diverse collections of eBooks alongside other library resources such as printed books, journals, audio visual materials and databases.
WIT Libraries Top 20 eBooks for 2012/13 Title Approaches to Learning : A Guide for Teachers Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia : A Natural Law Ethics Approach Cosmopolitan Ireland : Globalisation and Quality of Life Oracle Warehouse Builder 11g R2 : Getting Started 2011 : extract, transform, and load data to build a dynamic, operational data warehouse Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia Britannica Concise Encyclopedia Euthanasia, Ethics and Public Policy : An Argument Against Legalisation Cancer Nursing : Care in Context Understanding Social Control : Deviance, Crime and Social Order Best Practice in Professional Supervision : A Guide for the helping professions Alcohol, Drugs and Medication in Pregnancy : The Long Term Outcome for the Child Social Psychology Radical Initiatives in Interventionist and Community Drama Study Skills Guide : Essential Strategies for Smart Students Renegade Regimes : Confronting Deviant Behavior in World Politics Reflective Practice : A Guide for Nurses and Midwives Modern Marketing Research Easeful Death : Is There a Case for Assisted Dying? Anti-Social Behaviour Formulation and Analytical Development for Low-Dose Oral Drug Products
Author Jordan, Anne Paterson, Craig
User, Sessions 329 165
Kuhling, Carmen Griesemer, Bob
122 106
Gorsuch, Neil M. Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. Keown, John
105 99 98
Corner, Jessica Innes, Martin
81 76
Beddoe, Liz
75
Preece, Philip M.(Editor)
66
Bordens, Kenneth S. Billingham, Peter(Editor) Forsyth, Patrick Nincic, Miroslav
63 63 58 53
Taylor, Beverley Mishra, M.N. Warnock, Mary Millie, Andrew Zheng, Jack
51 51 50 50 50
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New Acquisitions Over the past couple of months there have been over 8, 500 items added to our library collections. These items mainly consist of special collection entries, purchases and donations, journals, e-books and theses. Some notable titles include: New to Luke Wadding Library
Adapt / Tim Harford Find at: 153.43 Advanced financial accounting / J Kothari, E Barone Find at: 657.046 The Penguin book of American verse / G Moore(ed) Find at: USA811.54MOO
A global history of the financial crash of 2007-2010 / JA Lybeck Find at: 330.909511 Internet success: a study of opensource software commons / CM Schweik, RC English Find at: 005.3
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The last Vikings: the epic story of the epic Norse voyages / KA Seaver Find at: 910.91631
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New to College Street Library
Comparative criminal justice systems: a topical approach / PL Reichel Find at: 364
Source Find at: Journal Stacks
Frieze Find at: Journal Stacks Modernity and modern painting: French painting in the 19th century / F Frascina et al Find at: 364
Modern Painters Find at: Journal Stacks
Tate Etc. Find at: Journal Stacks
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Book Review Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy was born on September 9, 1828, in his ancestral estate Yasnaya Polyana, South of Moscow, Russia. He studied languages and law at Kazan University for three years. He was dissatisfied with the school and left Kazan without a degree, returned to his estate and educated himself independently. In 1848 he moved to the capital, St. Petersburg, and there passed two tests for a law degree. He was abruptly called to return to his estate near Moscow, where he inherited 4000 acres of land and 350 serfs. There Tolstoy built a school for his serfs, and acted as a teacher.
Fr David Keating Leo Tolstoy Resurrection Reviewed by Fr David Keating, Institute Chaplain If you ever seek refuge from the mundane and superficial, to be carried away by words to a place of depth and significance, then may I suggest Leo Tolstoy’s Resurrection. I read this book some weeks ago and found it profoundly moving and simply unforgettable. But then Russian literature never disappoints, does it? The acknowledged masters of Russian literature, Turgenev, Pushkin, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Chekhov, have forever uplifted the world with a calibre of writing that is eloquent, deep and tender. Leo Tolstoy was born in
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Central Russia in 1828 to a family of old Russian nobility. Having earlier published War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877), regarded as his finest works, Resurrection was the last novel written by Tolstoy and was published in 1899. Strongly criticized (I believe unfairly) for lacking the skill and detail of his earlier work, Resurrection never set out to be another War and Peace or Anna Karenina but should be read, understood and critiqued as an original work that is exquisite and timeless. The story centres on an aristocratic nobleman, Dmitri Nekhlyudov, who seeks redemption for the misery and destitution he causes to a young maid he earlier seduced. Exiled to Siberia, Nekhlyudov accompanies this woman through prison and into exile, all the while witnessing scenes of degradation and injustice. He encounters people chained without cause, beaten and degraded without cause and children treated with appalling cruelty and
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neglect with no case against them other than to be poor. These images haunt Nekhlyudov as he so desperately tries to make amends and placate his own tortured mind and internal anguish. Furthermore, this nobleman is determined to confront those who seek to maintain the status quo of abject injustice and oppression, and to challenge those who profit by those same injustices.
Tolstoy himself, renouncing his privileged lifestyle following his experience in the army, saw the state as a conspiracy, designed not only to exploit but also to corrupt its citizens. He was deeply affected by the waste of lives in unnecessary wars, famines and a suppressed society. He was also disturbed by the injustice of man-made laws and the hypocrisy of the bourgeoisie.
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Russian literature endures. Thanks to the talent and skill of translators, the published works of these masters are available to the world. With superb characterization and forensic attention to detail, readers are exposed to a literary world that delivers an utter enchantment with the written word and a solid antedote to a culture of speed and the tyranny of instant.
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WIT Libraries have been celebrating Bliain na Gaeilge with our annual Taispeántas to mark Seachtain na Gaeilge which ran from 4 – 17th March. The exhibition showcased works from our collection in our native language – poetry, prose, dictionaries and language courses. With special thanks to John Johnston Kehoe For his invaluable help with translations.
This year, for fun, we also distributed bookmarks of mallachtaí / beannachtaí (curses and blessings) - one aspect of the richness of the language. Is fearr Gaeilge briste, ná bearla clíste. Broken Irish is better than clever English.
Is minic a bhris béal, duine a shron. It’s often that a person’s mouth broke his nose.
Aithníonn ciaróg ciaróg eile. One rogue recognises another.
Our project to display the library’s Bay signage bilingually is now complete. Have a look!
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Watch out for more events as gaeilge throughout the coming year
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Waterford Institute of Technology Libraries Cordially invite you to The first in a new series of lectures
‘Who dares to speak’ The purpose of the lecture series is to raise awareness of the significant role of Arts and Literature in Irish culture and society.
Venue: Special Collections Room, Luke Wadding Library Date: Monday 30th September @4.15pm Lecture: Remembering September 1913 Guest Speaker: Christa de Brun, Lecturer in English Literature, WIT
Abstract: ‘September 1913’ was published in The Irish Times on September 8, 1913. Yeats wrote the poem in response to three public controversies that stirred his imagination – the Parnell controversy and the Great Lockout, the response to the showing of Synge’s ‘Playboy of the Western world’ in the Abbey Theatre in 1907, and the proposals for a new gallery to house the Hugh Lane collection. The poem is both a lament for romantic Ireland and a scathing attack on the bourgeois materialism of Dublin and the ‘daily spite of this unmannerly town’ as he referred to Dublin in a letter to Hugh Lane. We would welcome expressions of interest for forthcoming lectures. For further information about this event or series, please contact Kieran Cronin. 051-302845(kcronin@wit.ie)
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WIT Libraries on Social Media WIT Libraries continues to connect with our staff and students by using different social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Blog and Pinterest. As new and continuing students why not “like” and “follow” some or all of these in order to keep up to date with all the latest news from the library.
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Newsletter Team:
Contributors:
Contact details:
Seamus Ryan
John Moloney (front page art)
WIT Library,
Clare Blount
Kieran Cronin
Therese O’Neill
Fr. David Keating
Waterford Institute of Technology,
Delia Foley Neil Darbey Tina Hurley Jennifer Bolger
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