Postgraduate Study Rooms in the James Joyce Library

Due to essential maintenance work in the James Joyce Library on Monday 2nd July, the individual postgradudate study rooms will not be given out until Tuesday 3rd July. Please note that a sign-up sheet will be available from 8.30am and keys will be distributed when the desk opens at 9.30am.

Cathal

Source OECD

There will be a demonstration of the Source OECD database on Wednesday, 11th July, from 9.30 - 11.30 a.m. in Theatre N, Newman Building, UCD. This will be given by David Baker from Source OECD.Source OECD provides full text of their books, periodicals, statistics, working papers and reference works. Of particular interest are the interactive statistics database which allows the creation of customised tables.

Source OECD is available to UCD Library as part of the IReL package at:
http://www.ucd.ie/library/electronic_resources/library_databases/

Science Commons and the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) have recently announced the the release of new online tools to help authors exercise choice in retaining critical rights in their scholarly articles, including the rights to reuse their scholarly articles and to post them in online repositories.

More information is available at:
http://www.arl.org/sparc/media/07-0517SC.html

64% of visitors to our Second Life branch say 'what an excellent idea'

From March to May this year we ran the first survey in our branch in Second Life (SL). While a very basic survey it indicates positive trends in relation to our SL involvement with most visitors having a very positive view of the project and intending to return to our SL branch. A major challenge is making people aware of our presence as most found us by serendipity or ‘other’! Not a new problem for Library services but one particularly challenging in SL. You can find out more about this brief survey by visiting our Second Life branch and collecting the survey notecard. A new survey is now running in the branch, please complete it if you can! Thanks to all of our respondents!

Cathal (SL: Gortadoo Ewing)

Managing Environmental Research Data

The UCD Urban Institute Ireland is running a seminar entitled Managing Environmental Research Data Seminar featuring Dr Shane Colgan (ERC Co-ordinator EPA) and Dr. Peter Mooney (ERC Research Fellow NUIM) on Monday 11th June 2007 14:00-16:00. For further details contact the Institute at uii.admin@ucd.ie

Summer Endnote Sessions

A number of lunchtime EndNote Introductory and Advanced sessions are planned during June and July this year.

Full details on dates, venue, time, bookings, contact etc are available at: http://www.ucd.ie/library/students/information_skills/endnote/training.html

UCD Library - Instant Messaging

May 2007 is already (with a few days to go) our busiest month for Instant Messaging (IM) at the level 1 desk in the James Joyce Library since we started IM in 2006. We have had 34 IMs so far this month alone (just beating November 2006 and March 2007). We have already had more IMs in the first few months of 2007 than we did in all of 2006. Thanks to all in Reader Services for their involvement in our IM pilot. Please remember that if you want to contact us using IM from a PC that does not have the MSN client installed and/or does not permit downloads you can use MSN's webmessenger service. For information about IM in UCD please click here.

Cathal