New Database! North South Child Protection Hub

The North South Child Protection Hub is the first dedicated child protection resource of it's kind. The aim of this hub is to provide and share information with daily updates, among professional bodies north and south of the border.

Click on the blue tab for Databases on the library home page and scroll down the list (under Academic Search Premier) for North South Child Protection Hub. You will need your student/staff ID and library password to access this database.

New Database! Montie Health and Safety

New to Yeats Library - Montie provides access to a comprehensive library of Workplace Health & Safety and Skills Training dvds and videos.

Click on the blue tab for Databases on the library home page and scroll down the list (under Academic Search Premier) for Montie. You will need your student/staff ID and library password to access this database.

The Late Maeve Binchy

Maeve Binchy, one of Ireland's most popular
writers and journalists has passed away at the age of 72.
She was an international bestselling author, publishing 16 novels and several short story collections and sold over 40 million books throughout her career.
Some of her novels were made into films such as 'The Lilac Bus' and 'Circle of Friends'.

 

Summer Opening Hours

Out of term opening hours this Summer are:

Monday - Friday

9.00-13.00 and 14.00-17.00

Closed Saturdays.

Yeats Day

A series of events have been organised to celebrate the birthday of W.B.Yeats today, Wednesday 13th June.

The Yeats Library have loaned some items from the Library's Special Collections of Yeats Works to exhibit alongside a collection from the National Library, this will take place in the Pollexfen Building, Wine Street from 11.30am today.

For more details go to the Yeats Day Website

Exam Time

From Tuesday the 8th of May and for the duration of the exam period, all three zones in the Yeats Library will be for quiet study only. If you make noise you will be asked to leave. If you need to work in a group book one of the 13 seminar rooms available.Thank you for your co-operation.  Best of luck!                               

Happy Easter!

Library Opening  Hours for the Easter Break:

Mon 2nd - Wed 4th April,
9.00-17.00

Wed 11th - Fri 13th April,
9.00-17.00

The Library will be closed from Thurs 5th -Tues 10th April.

Charity Book Donations

Time to do a Spring clean of your book collection?

For the month of March, the Yeats Library is hosting a drop box for book donations in association with Oxfam Ireland's Clear Ur Books campaign. Oxfam will accept donations of all types of books both fiction and non-fiction, as long as they are in good condition.
The drop box is located beside the library information desk.
So clear some space and donate for charity!

World Book Day 2012

Today, March 1st,  is World Book Day and to celebrate this international event the  library has a wonderful display of children’s books, all created by  4^th year students from Early Childhood Care in Education. These are on display at the library information desk.
Also on display are a new range of books “Quick Reads” - they are brilliant, bite sized books by big name authors and celebrities. 

We would like to welcome you  to call to the library between 1 and 2pm today for a tea/coffee and chocolate bar all kindly sponsored by Wheat’s, the Book Nest, Students Union shop and Corporate Catering when you can browse the quick reads and view the displays.

IEEE Digital Library

The IEEE Electronic Library (IEL) provides access to over 3,132146 documents from the IEEE and the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) including journals, conference proceedings, published standards and a standards dictionary from 1988. Subjects covered are electrical engineering, computer science and communications.

VDE VERLANG Conference Proceedings are also available with abstracts and some full text proceedings from 2005.

Access to the IEL is now available from the Library homepage, just select IEEE from the Database drop-down list.