William Butler Yeats was extraordinarily vocal and vigorous in articulating hatred as his poetic passion of preference -- so much so that when he dreamed of his goals as a poet, he "dreamed of enlarging Irish hate". This ...
This article sets out the background, operation, challenges and opportunities entailed in providing access to Management Information System (MIS) data to the subject librarians to enable accurate profiling of print resource ...
The article highlights the Veterinary Library of the University College Dublin (UCD) in Dublin, Ireland. It relates that the library is an integrated and central element in the veterinary medicine programme at the UCD and ...
This article discusses how the trend towards
new approaches in teaching and learning such as
problem-based learning are radically impacting
on librarians.
Research was conducted on the impact of Problem-Based Learning (PBL) on the information seeking and literacy of veterinary students at University College Dublin. Data was collected using both quantitative and qualitative ...
Purpose: The main purpose of this paper is to generate discussion on the necessity for document
delivery services to re-position themselves, thus “adding value” within the information chain.
Approach: Empirical, based ...
This article outlines the development of a school information resources development policy and illustrates how these policies can be used to further liaison among
academic libraries, to market library resources to our ...
Patterson, Avril(Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, 2009-06)
The purpose of this research was to establish the baseline information literacy of incoming
postgraduate research students, which in turn could inform the development of information literacy provision to support research. ...
Results of a local survey in late 2008 show that e-books have not yet reached a tipping point at University College Dublin (UCD) Library, with only about a quarter of those surveyed saying that they have used any. There ...
This paper describes University College Dublin Library's participation in a series of parallel projects including building a national open access portal, Rian.ie; developing an international subject based portal, ...
Purpose – The purpose of this paper it to outline current resource-sharing initiatives in Irish academic libraries that support increased research activity
in line with national policy. This paper aims to point to the ...
Purpose: To report on the 10th ILDS conference held in Singapore
Approach – Descriptive
Findings – That the conference was very successful and that contrary to rumours interlending and document supply is alive and well ...
A shift in tertiary education is acknowledged and this article discusses the implications for librarians engaged in information literacy support. The article demonstrates why liaison librarians need to scan and tailor new ...