CHRISTMAS BREAK-LIBRARY HOURS

DIT CHRISTMAS CLOSURE

Hello all!

'It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas'. The lights are up all over town, and soon it will be socially acceptable to play Christmas music, just a couple more days.

DIT will be closed and so will the library from 5pm Friday, the 21st of December til Wednesday the 2nd of January.

CC. Pixabay. (2018) Santa Claus Christmas Motif

NEW LIBRARY APP

Great news, due to a lot of hard work on the part of select DIT Librarians we now have a new Mobile App, MyLibrary! by Innovative Interfaces, Inc., which can be downloaded from the App store, or Google Play.

Click here for an introductory video!

1) Install with your preferred App store.

2) Select your library: Technological University Dublin.

3) Then under Barcode: enter you Student or Staff number.

4) Your Pin: is your library pin, that you use to log into your databases off-campus.

If you need to set up your pin you can set one up with us at the desk or you can follow the direction below or see them here.

Once you have logged in you will be taken to your home page, which will update with Library Tweets! From here you can search the collection by clicking Find, which will result in a search box, the ability to Scan Book for further details on a selected book, or Search Catalog.

• Using the search box you can type in keywords to browse the collection.

• Using the Scan Book function you can learn more about the availability specific titles by scanning the barcode on the back of the book.

• Using the Search Catalog function will take you to the DIT library catalogue.

From the homepage of the MyLibrary! App you can click into Social Media and then within may select either Facebook, Youtube, or Twitter.

From the homepage you may also access your profile under My Account. within this feature you will see your name, amount of books checked out, any holds you might have, if you owe late fines, and a link to change your profile details. You may click on any of these links get more information on the items in question.

Have fun with the library at your fingertips!

CELEBRATE A LITTLE

Happy Thanksgiving to the Americans of our campus. This is the time of year in Ireland where shoppers are flooding the streets for one sale or another. Christmas lights have been up since before Halloween decorations in some cases, and it's little wonder as the days grow colder and the nights fall earlier. So what better than to throw up some sparkling lights, and what else... eat far too much!

Thanksgiving is traditionally a turkey dinner. You will never forget this turkey will you?

Friends (1998) The One with All the Thanksgivings. Season 5. Episode 8. 

But come on, we are all busy, poor, and would rather spend our time and money on shopping for the holidays. So let's look at some alternate dishes you might want to make that are cheap, easy, take under an hour, and are healthy to boot.

(Click on the images to be taken to the recipes.)

Try something covered in cheese and toasty!

Television Food Network (2014) Roasted Cauliflower Lasagne. [photo linked].

Or maybe something you can slurp.

Leek and Butterbean Soup

BBC Good Food. (2017). Leek and Butterbean Soup. [photo linked].

Or something with a bit of spice.

Bengal Butternut Squash and Chickpeas with Naan

Good to Know. (2014). Bengal Butternut Squash and Chickpeas with Naan. [photo linked].

Whatever you choose, Bon Appétit!

Simple

Just in time for the weekend the library has received one of its big green boxes.  

Usually once or twice a week the library gets a delivery from our Central Services Unit (CSU) in Rathmines, where all the orders for books and magazines get delivered. Once the lovely library elves over in the CSU catalogue, and process the new materials they send us a big green box. When the box is full it feels a bit like Christmas. When we get our items we process them further and then make them available! We even put some of the nicest ones on the new book stand by the front desk. 

Since it is late in the year, we don't have much time left for orders, but we are still getting stuff in. Today we received Ottolenghi Simple, Yotam Ottolenghi's newest cookbook. 

The concept for this cookbook was to make cooking more accessible for people short on time, or ingredients, but still want to eat good food. To make things easier Ottolenghi has marked the recipes with the signifiers: S.I.M.P.L.E (Short on time, 10 ingredients or less, Make ahead, Pantry, Lazy, and Easier than you think). After browsing through this cookbook, I am sold. The recipes have easy to source ingredients, I didn't see any recipes with more than 6 steps, and the pictures of the foods inside were enough to make me hungry even after just eating lunch.

Ottolenghi's other works include: Sweet, Plenty, and Jerusalem.

If you would like to borrow this particular cookbook it can be found at shelf mark 641.555 OTT.

Come and visit us soon, or you might just have to wait in line!

Autumn Comfort Food

It's getting nippy outdoors, and it's making us hungry.  When the weather starts to turn so do our appetites, out goes the iced drinks and in comes the spice!

Did you ever wonder why you start craving sweets, spices, and all the carbs?

Well, aside from the cultural influences such as holidays that make us eat more, there is our human biology. According to (Katz, 2008; p377) hunger is "the sensations induced by a deficit in readily metabolizable energy sources". This is different, but not uninfluenced by appetite, "a desire for food influenced by cravings for specific tastes and availability of specific foods".

Here is a handy little diagram of the factors that are involved in our hunger habits.

Katz, 2008; pg 381. Actual Food Intake/Effects on Health & Weight

But though we all may a have a little scavenger/hunter in us that demands that we calorie load to get us through the hard cold winter, remember we are not bears, a lot of our cravings are psychological comfort and coping mechanisms to get us through the long dark. So while we ponder the question of why we are really hungry, lets look at a few recipes to hit those cravings.

Turkey burger with chanterelles and Gruyere

Kavanagh, J. & Murray, W. (Oct, 2018). Turkey burgers with chanterelles and Gruyere. The Irish Times. Online.

For your side, or even just a main if you are a vegetarian. Why not try this:

Potato and apple braise

Somers, C. (Sept, 2018). Potato and apple braise. The Irish Times. Online

And how could we ever forget dessert!

Toffee apple and brandy trifle

Somers, C. (Sept, 2018). Toffee apple and brandy trifle. The Irish Times. Online

So after that if you weren't hungry before, I hope you are hungry now!

Caution: after excessive eating it is wise to exercise, but maybe after a nap! Enjoy!

cc. Pixabay. (2018). Fat cat.

NEW OPENING HOURS!

Hello All,

We are happy to announce that as of this weekend Saturday the 3rd of November, we will once again be open Saturdays 10am-5pm. And as of the Thursday the 8th of November we will be open from 9am-9pm on Thursdays!

Thank you for your patience and support!

OÍCHE SHAMHNA SHONA DAOIBH! HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

October 29th Bank Holiday Monday.

 The library will be closed all day.
We will reopen Tuesday 30th at 9.00am.

WEEK 5: STARTING YOUR RESEARCH PROJECT.

How time flies, already a month into the autumn semester, and you have been working hard in the library!

Here are some tips to help you start your research project.

1) Make an outline of your topic. 
You have a research topic? Good, now what do you really want to know about your topic? Bullet point anything you know about the topic already. Bullet things you think you should know more about, and more importantly what you think the reader should know more about. This will help you identify the gap your project will fill in the research world.

2) Form an action plan. Outline in short but succinct detail This is also known as a research strategy. Here is a helpful checklist (Denscombe, 2017; pg 10) to follow to make sure your choice of research strategy is appropriate.

3) Create drafts of your research tools (ie. survey questions, interview material, etc).

The outline of your project, action plan, and drafts will serve you as guides, but also act as your application material for ethical approval. 

4) Make sure that your research strategy is sound by submitting an application or requesting guidance from your Research Ethics Committee, DIT even has a Research Ethics Online Application. This is a highly important step to any research project and is there to help you make the most of your research, while protecting any participants you might have. Cresswell & Cresswell's Research Design (2018), has excellent guidance on writing your proposal (keep in mind an older edition is usually just as good).

5) You have been approved! Good work! Carry on with your research in as close a manner as you can to your plan, keeping vigilant when it comes to questions of ethics, and taking not of all the things you find, not just the ones that support your Thesis claim. Negative results are important in furthering future research so that you, and other can learn why and how things evolved.

If you haven't been approved, don't lose heart, take on the comments of your Ethics board and revise your application, this will only make your project stronger!


FAST FACT: Always check the bibliography of your reading materials for resources you might want to look into. hint, hint. ;)

Bibliography:

Cresswell, J. W., & Cresswell, J. D. (2018) Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative & Mixed Methods Approaches. 5th ed. Sage: Los Angeles, USA.

Denscombe, M. (2017). The Good Research Guide: For Small-scale Social Research Projects. 6th ed. Open University Press: London, UK.

BACK ON TRACK

Hello CBS patrons,

As some of you probably noticed, we had limited services in the morning yesterday. I am happy to report that we are all up-to-date, and running as normal again. Thank you so much for your patience!

In other news, have you ever noticed that small section of books by the entrance to CBS just to the right. These are some of our historical cookery books. Though we ask you to take special care of these books, many of them are borrowable. Take for example Three Meals a Day by Jessie Read.
This book looks a bit scruffy, but has all sorts of fun recepies.  Maybe you are thirsty, check out page 20 for Claret Lemonade, or you are feeling a bit peckish whip up a batch of Orange tea rolls.

Here is a recipe for our adventurous carnivors, which can be found on page 112:

Veal Pie with Tomato Biscuits

2.5- 3 cups cold veal, in 3/4-inch cubes.
1 cup left-over gravy.
2 cups water.
1 cup sliced onion.
1 cup diced carrots. 
3 tbsp flour.
1 tsp Worcestershire sauce.
3/4 tsp celery salt. 
Salt and pepper. (presumably to taste).
1 cup canned green peas, or beans.
Tomato biscuit dough.

Combine veal, gravy, water, onions, and carrots. Cover, and bring to the boil. Add the seasonings, and simmer all together for 30 minutes. Mix flour with water to a paste, and add to the mixture to thicken. Now, add green peas and turn into casserole. Cool slightly, then place rounds of tomato buscuit dough on top. ake at 425 degrees F (~220 C) for 25 minutes. Serve hot to 6 people. 

Aside from adding many needed commas, and an italicised word, or (comment), this is the recipe given in Read's book. If you want to make this recipe and you don't already know how to make tomato tea biscuit dough, come check out this book! I'll even make it easy, this book can be found as earlier discribed in the historical cookery section under 641.5971 REA, and the Tomato biscuit recipe can be found on page 32.

Ps. I would just like to ask Mr. Read how one transfigures green peas into a whole casserole. :)

WARNING: SLOW DESK OPERATIONS/NO CATALOGUE

Hello DIT students and staff.

A warning for those of you planning on using the library Wednesday the 26th of September, the catalogue will be down, and all lending will be greatly delayed due to Library system upgrades taking place.

Thank you for your patience!

Library Staff

WEEK 1 IN CBS LIBRARY

Hello Students and Staff! Welcome to a new school term. Here are some key tips to getting the most out of your library experience!

Tip 1. Always have your student card with you, not only does it remind you of your student number it also is necessary for borrowing books. Take note: Once you have your student account set up and your card assigned you have to wait 24 hours for it to activate to use it at your library.

Tip 2. If you are looking for specific material use the library catalogue to make sure that what you want is a DIT item, but also to see if it is available. We have 3 computers in our library just for searching the catalogue.

Tip 3. This is more of a warning. No food or drink is allowed in the library except for bottled water. This isn't cause we want you to go hungry, this is a culinary library after all but it keeps the library and all the materials clean and tidy for all your other colleagues.

Tip 4. No cellphone use, by this we ask that you do not answer your phone or make calls within the library doors. I know you think going past the barrier helps, but believe me sound carries in this old building. Fun fact the library used to be a gymnasium!

Tip 5. Follow this blog, and DIT twitter to find out more tips on a regular basis.

Fall Term 2018

FORGOT YOUR PASSWORD?

DIT ICT is offering a new self-service password manangement system! 

REDUCED HOURS FRIDAY, JUNE 29th

Due to a staff seminar the library will not be open until 2pm on Friday the 29th of June. 

FREE BOOKS

Some of you may be familiar with the Library's annual book clearing project. We go through all of our books and we find some that haven't gotten enough attention over the past few years and we put them out for you to take. So please drop by and grab a few copies, we would be happy to see them retired to a good home!

JUNE BOOK ARRIVALS

Come check out June's new book arrivals!

Summer time in the library means looking over what stock we have, and seeing if there is anything new we might need. Here are two of the new acquisitions!

If you have to give or plan tours this summer this title could be just what you are looking for: Tour Operators and Operations: Development, Management and Responsibility, by Holland & Leslie. Wander over to stack 1 at 338.4781 HOL if you need a guide.

We have recieved-in a new set of Environmental Health Encyclopedias: Crume's Environtmental Health in the 21st Century: From Air Pollution to Zoonotic Diseases, A-Z. If you are itching to use this resource it can be found on stack 2 at 614.7 CRU.

For a colourful depiction of the history of food come and check out: DK's The Story of Food:An Illustrated History of Everything We Eat. If you wanna know a little more about a lot of foods this is a good book to graze through, find it on stack 2 at 641.3009 COR.

For a book that depends more on taste than sight, look up our copy of: The Flavor Matrix, by Briscione & Parkhurst. This book combines recipes with interesting food facts, flavour pairings, and of course food flavour compatibility matrices. This book can be found on stack 4 at 664.5 BRI.

Chocolate goes with everything right?!

Keep your eyes open for more upcoming acquisitions, and come and check out our collection!

COOKING WITH WHAT YOU HAVE

It's summertime and everyone is busy, whether you are working a summer job (or two), or doing research, it can be hard to find the time to get your shopping, between your daily activities and trying to make the most of the weather.

So you check the fridge after a typical day at work, and low-and-behold all you've got left are some eggs, salsa, and a bit of cheddar. You check your cupboard and it's bare except for some rice and beans. You don't have a lot of energy or time to waste in the kitchen, and for some reason you can't make it to the shops. What are you going to do?

Fresh out of ideas? Try out these handy websites: http://myfridgefood.com, or http://www.supercook.com . 

Unlike looking through loads of recepies online trying to find one that matches, use these sites and enter in ingredients you know you have! Have fun meal planning with ingredients you already have, maybe you will save time, and money!

You've got yourself huevos rancheros! or according to Supercook, Spanish Skillet.

If you just happen to have the ingredients listed above in your home try out the recipe at:

http://albertsons.mywebgrocer.com/Recipes/Categories/Side-Dishes/44/Rice-and-Grain/101/SPANISH-SKILLET-SUPPER/53496 .

June Library Opening Hours

Cathal Brugha Street Library will open from 9.00am to 5.00pm for the month of June

With the exception of the following two days

The Library will close on Monday June 4th for the Bank Holiday.
The Library will open from 1.00pm until 5.00pm on Friday June 29th to facilitate a town hall meeting.

2017/2018 EXAMS AVAILABLE

2017/2018, Semester 2 Exams Available online!

It's that time of year again! The sun is out, and so are the exam papers! 

Cathal Brugha St. Exam papers have been made available online through the library catalogue.

Go to the library website at http://www.dit.ie/library/. Look under E-Resources and click on Exam papers.

Click on Exam Papers-2001 to date, and scroll down the list to select your DIT College or DIT Faculty. Then just search by year and you're done!

Note: If you are trying to access exam papers off campus, remember, you will need a username and password. Ask at the library desk for the username and password or email the library at cbs.library@dit.it

SUMMER OPENING TIMES

New summer opening times from the 21^st of May until September #cathalbrughalibrary #cathalbrughalibraryopeningtimes

STUDENT TIPS

Your library account allows you to:   

·         Renew books

·         Place a book on hold

·         Create a history list of the books you checked-out

·         Access databases, eJournals and eBooks off campus

Renewing books

This is what your account looks like when you have a book checked-out. To see the items you have checked-out click on Items currently checked out (see image above, link circled in red).

To renew a book simply click on the link 'Renew All' or 'Renew Marked' (see image above).

Creating a reading history list

You can create a list of every book you check-out by clicking into the 'Reading History' link. A reading history is great for citing, as it allows you to find books you have used for your research. And click the 'Opt In' option.

Placing a book on hold

If a book you require has been checked-out by someone else, you can place a hold on it by asking at the library desk or, following these simple instructions:

1. Click on request (see image 1 below)
2. Type your student/staff number and four digit pin number into the request verification (see image 2 below).
3. If they are the correct item, click on 'Requested selected items' 
4. Image 3 shows what a hold looks like on your account. If you need to cancel a hold request see the links underlined in red in Image 3

Image 1

Image 2

Image 3

MAY OPENING TIMES

CAO OPENING DAY

CAO Opening Day for culinary arts and hospitality is Wednesday 25th of April, 14.00 - 17.00 in DIT  Cathal Brugha Street