April 2003

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Electronic ServicesNew JournalsNew AcQuisitionsOvenin~ Hol.U'SCluain Mhuire

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Welcome BackWelcome back to th~ fi-nal tenn. Easter ~s beenvery late this year andwe are left with what'must be the shortest tennon record so not muchtime left before examsstart. We wish all ourstudents the very best ofluck in their exams andwe hope the library willbe of help to you in your[mal preparations.

New LibraryThe shelves are in place; detailed preparations forthe electrical fittings are be- some. time. Moving ining installed; study desk are June will mean minimumassembled; computers are disruption to our servicesbeing set up. It's been a as exams will be finishedlong time coming but we and most students will beare [mally on the move. off campus.June will see us close the We look forward to wel-door on our present site and coming you back in Sep-open in our new state- of -tember to our new loca-the-art premises. The move tion. And to those students.itself will be a major oper~- who are finishing thistion and one for which li- year, do call back andbrary staffhitve been mak- visit. We will be delighteding to show you around.

Two views of the interior of the- new library

Electronic Services

feature added to Art Abstracts and a The Cochrane Library from thecollection of Elektor cd-roms. Athens link on the Electronic Ser-The Library's Electronic Resource.s vices page, using your 'My Athens''Electronic News' link provides username and password. You willdetails of any new item in online or fmd the Cochrane Library listedcd format. among the available Athens re-The Cochrane Library is a new sources.resource available to us via Athens, INIS, the International Nuclear In-which documents reliable and up to formation System, is the world'sdate information on the effects of leading bibliographic database oninterventions in health care. The Li- nuclear science and technology.brary is a collection of seven sepa- INIS is available using IP based ac-rate databases providing coverage of cess from within GMrr, simplyevidence based medicine and cur- click on the link from the Library'srent research methodology. Login to Electronic Resources page.

In this update we will be dealingwith new feattn-es on EI Com-pendex/EV2, including the avail-ability of IP based access, so user-names and passwords are no longerneeded if accessed from withinGMIT. We also have 2 new onlineproducts to publicise, The CochraneLibrary, a health care resource, andINIS, the world's leading informa-tion system on the peaceful uses ofnuclear energy.Other new features include anonline journal from the Institute ofTechnology BlancharQstown, a new

who so wishes, please just send anemail to maura.stephens@~t.iestating the documents you require.

Document TypesSearch ResultsPersonal AccountsCombining PreviousSearchesTreatment CodesRemoving Duplicate Re-cordsClassification Codes

Engineering .village 2 (EV2) I EICompendex have changed themethod of access from withinGMIT, it's now IF-based, so userslogging in on site no longer need toinsert the usernames and passwords,clicking on the link will lead di-rectly to the Compendex QuickSearch page.The Compendex service providershave also been busy compiling use-ful help documents on:

All of the above are avai1able fromthe Electronic Services Librarian,and copies can be emailed to anyone

ITB Journal: The Institute ofTechnology, Blanchardstown pub-lishes an online journal 'ITB Jour-nal', available to all via the Internet.To acceSs from GMTT, click on thelink on the ~E-Journals' heading onthe Library's Electronic Resourcespage. rIB Journal provides a forumwhereby members of rIB, visitorsand guest contributors from all Irishthird level colleges can publish anarticle on their research in a multid-isciplinary journal. The Editor wel-comes contributions from GMITpatrons, please see rIB Journal forhis email address.

Elektor ElectronicsFinally a word about a new collec-tion of cd-roms. Many of you willbe familiar with the ElektorElec-tronics magazines, which GMIT Li-brary have subscribed to since 1982.We now have available the annualcollections of Elektor on cd-romback to 1995 and up to 2002. Theannual cd contains all editorial arti-clesin Adobe Acrobat format.Searching is by keyword, and usersmay search through more than oneyear on the most recent cds (1998-).If you wish to use any of the Elektorcd-roms please ask at the library en-quiry desk. All our cd-roms are forLibrary use only.

Many of our database providers arecontinuously improving and upgrad-ing their services.The Art Abstracts database hasemployed the use of ~ new docu-ment locating facility calledBALSA, which connects end usersto the most convenient bibliographicutility which houses the full textdocument. This may be another Li-brary or a document delivery ser-vice. To use BALSA, simply clickon the "locate" button at the top of adisplayed record, a new browserwindow will open up, containing asummary of the resources availableand provisional results.

It is shelved at 624.05EconomicsThis title is published 8 times peryear by Spoon Press in th~..IJK. It isa good source for students and re-searchers on all aspects of cons1rua-tion management and economics. Itis a refereed journal which publishesoriginal research concerning themanagement and economics ofbuilding and civil engineering. Italso includes the management ofbuilt facilities. It is shelved at624.05International ConstructionThis title is published monthly byJames King. It features world news,project reports, interviews productinformation and new equipment.

Here are some new journal titles ofinterest to students studyIng con-structionJournal of Construction Engi-neering and ManagementThis is published bimonthly by theAmerican Society of Civil Engi-neers. It aims to advance the scienceof construction engineering and tofurther education and research in thearea. Topics covered in the journalinclude construction material han-dling, equipment, productionplanning, specifications, quality andcost control and environmental con-cerns. The journal is available at624.05.Construction Management and

New book by GMIT LecturerWe are delighted to welcome thepublication of GMrr lecturer Dr.Elizabeth Gosling's new book,"Bivalve Molluscs Biology, Ecol-ogy and Culture". The book is pub-lished by Fishing NewBooks, an im-print of Blackwell Science and waslaunched here in GMrr on April2nd by the Director, Ms. MarionCoy.

The book covers all the majoraspects of this important class ofvertebrates including ecology, feed-ing, reproduction, fisheries, aqua-culture, genetics and public healthIssues.We congratulate Dr. Gosling on theachievement of producing this ma-jor work and wish her every successwith it.

the library.

Careers Office, has a wide selectionof careers material available for stu-dents. This ranges from graduatecareers djrectories, books on furthereducation courses in Ireland andabroad, information on volunteerwork abroad to leaflets and freepublications on specific job areas.

So if you are interested in checkingout career options or looking formore information on a specific ca-reer, do look at the careers stands inthe library. They are located on theright as you ~ter the library, be- iside the newspaper tables.

RTE production "Seven Ages -aStory of the Irish State".

It includes interviews with seniorpoliticians, historians, journalistsand economists. These are linked byfascinating archive film footage ofhistorical events from the 1916 Ris-ing, the War of Independence, theCivil War and up to the Ireland ofthe 1980s. This is available as aboxed set of 3 videos or on dvd andcan be viewed in the main library.

Careers Information

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LibraryNews

Welcome back to each and every-one after the Easter Holidays.The Theses for Diploma and De-gree students have now been sub-mitted and the students are. verybusy working on their Exhibitionpieces for their show on the 7th.June, we wish them well and lookforward to seeing wonderful Artwhich the show produces each

year.

Last Term we had our fIrst Artsand Culture Week in Cluain:rvIl1uire, Our Director Marion Coyofficially opened it on Tuesday18th. March. This is an excitingnew initiative that the students

have developed and deserves thesupport of all. Students from variousdisciplines, Paint, Print, Sculpture,Ceramics, T.V. and Film all playedtheir part in ma~g the weekmemorable. Each day began with atheme, such as Spanish and therewas Salsa and Flamenco dancingworkshops on and Spanish food inthe canteen. Along the corridorswere displays of Prints and Paint-ings in which Brendan Crehan'sCeltic Art took pride of place.There were many other eventsthroughout the week including slideshows and Live Art Painting.

On Wednesday our own John Tun-ney, Head of Humanities was in finevoice with a mixture of stories,sean nos singing and storytelling,including stories of his late fatherthe renowned traditional singerPaddy-Tunney, author of ""StoneFiddle"ill the Library too on Thursday wehad a Performance Piecefrom Amanda Coogan, one of Ire-lands leading performance artists