Yeats Day

Today is Yeats Day, the 149th birthday of W.B. Yeats.
To coincide with the visit to Sligo of Her Excellency, Radhika Lal Lokesh, the Indian Ambassador to Ireland for this occasion, an exhibition on ‘Yeats and influences from India’ is currently on display in the Social Zone of the library.
Works dispalyed include:
The Post Office: a play by Rabindranath Tagore (Nobel prize winner from 1913),
The Ten Principle Upanishads (Indian Scriptures) by W.B. Yeats and Shri Purohit Swami, as well as books from Anne Yeats private collection on Indian Art (one signed).

Summer Opening

The exams may be over but for anyone who is researching over the summer months the library will be open from Monday to Friday 9.00am to 5.00pm.

 

For the latest items added to the library catalogue take a look at the

All New Books RSS Feed.

 

Have a lovely summer!

Accessing journal articles and databases

The library has access to thousands of articles via several database subscriptions.
When searching for an article you can search via the Summon search box on the library homepage or if you want to search a specific database e.g. Science Direct, click on the Database tab on the library homepage and scroll down the list of databases for the one you require.
For more information on databases go to Databases Electronic Resources.

To acccess any of the library's online resources including e-journals,
e-books and databases, you will be asked to log in using your IT Sligo student number and your library password. Please read the Library Password Help guide for details on setting up your library password.

Copies of print articles available in the library, may be requested if not available online. The requested article will be posted to you on receipt of a completed Copyright Declaration Form.  Contact Geraldine Fahey for more details or Library Support.
 

 

Interlending and Document Supply

On occasion, a book or journal article you require will not available from the stock of the Yeats Library.
However, it can be requested from another library for you through our interlending and document supply service.
Please see the Interlending and Document Supply page for more details.

Online learners -when your book arrives at the Yeats Library it will be posted out to you - see the Online Learners webpage for more details.

Online Helpdesk

If you are experiencing difficulties with any of our online resources such as databases or ebooks please contact us or email the library helpdesk:

library@itsligo.ie

CUA Borrowing books from CUA and Athlone IT Libraries

The libraries of the Connaught Ulster Alliance and Athlone Institute of Technology have set up the following reciprocal borrowing agreement.

Staff and students from IT Sligo may visit the libraries of the following institutions and borrow two items for one week from their normal borrowing collections:

• Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT)
• Letterkenny Institute of Technology (LYIT)
• Athlone Institute of Technology (AIT)

If you wish to visit and borrow books from these libraries please complete the online form
Application Form.
You will be contacted by email when your borrowing service has been set up in the host library.
Search CUA Alliance and Athlone's Catalogues

Exam Time

Extended opening during exam time:

Yeats Library will be open until 7.00 pm on Friday 16th and Friday 23rd May 

and will open from 9.00 am - 2.00 pm on Saturday 17th and Saturday 24th May.

Best of luck to all of you doing exams

World Book and Copyright Day (+World Book Night)

Today is International Day of the Book or World Book and Copyright Day. This UNESCO event is to celebrate and promote reading  throughout the world and also create copyright law awareness. Copyright is an intellectual property giving authors/creators exclusive rights to their own original works.

 

"Our goal is clear – to encourage authors and artists and to ensure that more women and men benefit from literacy and accessible formats, because books are our most powerful forces of poverty eradication and peace building. "Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO
 

April 23rd is celebrated in Spain as the Day of the Rose where traditionally roses were exchanged as gifts. To mark the death of the famous Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes who died on this day 1926, the roses were replaced with books as a gifts. This is where the tradition of exchanging books to encourage reading on World Book Day and World Book Night came about. The date April 23rd also marks the births of the following international authors Maurice Druon (French), Haldor K.Laxness (Icelandic), Vladimir Nabokov (Russian) and the deaths of Josep Pla (Spanish), Miguel de Cervantes, and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (both Spanish). Most notably April 23rd is also the date of the birth and death of William Shakespeare.

Easter Opening Times

Out of term opening times for the Easter break:  

Sat 12th April                      10.00-14.00

Mon 14th-Thurs 17th April    9.00-17.00

Tues 22nd-Fri 25th April       9.00-17.00

Closed Sat 26th April           10.00-14.00

Normal opening times resume Mon 28th April

Young Archaeologists Conference at IT Sligo

The Association of Young Archaeologists of Ireland (AYAI) are holding their annual conference in IT Sligo this weekend from 28th -30th March.

Papers to be presented cover a wide area of archaeological interest from research on the local archaeological site of Knocknarea to international sites of the Iberian Peninsula and Siberia.

This event is free to attend.
For more information or to register for the conference click here