Dietary Supplements

Are dietary supplements any good for you?  If so, how much and how often should you take them?

The article Dietary Supplements: Physician Knowledge and Adverse Event Reporting
explores the use and sometimes misuse of dietary supplements and the effects on our health.

The full article is available to access from this month's online journal Medicine and Science in Sport and Exercise, issue: volume 45(1), January 2013, p 23–28.

Restricted Opening Hours Wed 16th January

The Library will have restricted opening hours on Wednesday 16th January-

 opening in the afternoon from 2pm-5pm only. 

It will be closed Wednesday morning and evening to facilitate training.

Normal term time opening hours will resume on Thursday 17th January.

Happy New Year!

Welcome back into a new term and a new year.
The Yeats Library has resumed normal term time opening hours from today, Thursday 3rd January.
So it will be open late tonight until 9pm,  9am-5pm tomorrow Friday and 10am-2pm on Saturday.

The regular late openings of 9am-9pm Mon-Thurs, begin on Monday 7th January.

Christmas Opening Hours

 

Sat 15th December                           10.00-14.00

Mon 17th - Fri 21st December              9.00-17.00
Closing on Friday 21st December for Christmas Break
 

Open in the new year from Thurs 3rd January, 9.00-21.00

(Late opening commences from Thursday 3rd Jan)
 

Happy Christmas
Nollaig Shona Dhaoibh
Best of luck to everyone doing exams in the new year

Supernatural influences

A collection of items from the Yeats Library's Special Collections is currently on exhitbition in the library. The theme of this exhibition is the supernatural and it's influence on writers, poets, and artists in their creative works- from the fairies of folklore to the vampires of gothic horror.

Items include:
The Celtic twilight: men and women, dhouls and faeries by W. B Yeats, a 1^st edition based on local folklore from Sligo

The Fairies, poem by William Allingham (who was from Ballyshannon)

Gothic horror novels by Bram Stoker (whose mother had lived in Sligo)including Dracula, Dracula's Guest and The Snake’ Pass

Images of gothic art including The Last Detail from the artist Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1510), taken from the Anne Yeats Art Collection.

These items can be viewed in the Special Collections Exhbition area just inside the entrance doors to the Social Zone.

Royal Irish Academy Exhibition

The Yeats Library, Institute of Technology, Sligo is delighted to

host The Royal Irish Academy Library’s successful exhibition, ‘Mapping Urban Ireland’.

The exhibition has been planned in association with the Irish Historic Towns Atlas project at the Royal Irish Academy and is of particular interest, as the ‘Irish historic towns atlas’ was published in 2012 for Sligo.

You are invited to view the exhibition which will be held on the Info Zone of the Yeats Library from Wednesday 14th November until the end of the month.  The historic maps of Sligo will also be on display during this period.

Library Week 2012

Library Week 2012 runs from November 12th-18th and this year the theme is the role of libraries, librarians and information professionals in the promotion and support of literacy and learning.

Check out the Study Skills page on the Yeats Library website to learn more on information literacy, web literacy and useful information tools to help you with your study.

Also, see the Yeats Library Moodle site topics- Thinking and Researching and Writing and Referencing for informaion on researching, writing and presenting techniques.

Graduation

Congratulations to all those who graduated at the IT, Sligo
conferring cermonies yesterday and today.

Well done and best of luck with your chosen careers and/or further studies.

From the Yeats Library Staff.

EndNote Web

EndNote Web Available at IT Sligo

EndNote Web is a referencing product which allows you to effectively  store and manage your references while undertaking research or assigment work. Once you create an EndNote Web account you can:

1. add and store your references
2. insert them into a Word document using the 'Cite While You Write' option
3. create a bibliography in your chosen referenceing style at the end of the document.

Endnote Web is provided by Thomson Reuters and available via the library database Web of Science. For more details on how to get started with EndNote Web click here

Wifi and IT Queries

Wifi is available on all three levels of the Library building. Check out  IT Services Wifi Guides  on how to connect to the Wireless network service.

For printing queries contact printing@itsligo.ie

For log in/access or any other IT queries contact a member of the IT Services Staff at the IT Helpdesk, currently situated in Seminar Room 3, Library Soical Zone from 10am-11am and 2pm-3pm, Monday-Friday.