SNOW CLOSURE UPDATES

The library is now closed Thursday, March 1st and Friday, March 2nd due to the Beast from the East. We will keep staff and students updated on opening times.

SNOW CLOSURES

Cathal Brugha St Library regrets to announce that due to the "Beast from the East" and associated problems, the building, and with it the library, will be CLOSED from late morning on Wednesday 28th February, and will stay closed all day on Thursday 1st March.

It is hoped that normal opening will resume on Friday 2nd March, but readers are asked to keep an eye on the main DIT website and on DIT e-mails to keep up to date with the evolving situation.

MARCH OPENING TIMES

MINTEL REPORTS

The library has expanded its Mintel Food Reports to include the UK and European Food & Drink Report and Mintel Consumer Data. “Mintel Consumer Data Charts provide information on consumers by category, country or market. Behavioural and attitudinal questions cover over 50 product categories for the Food and Drink, Household, Beauty and Personal Care and Lifestyles markets.” See databases for links to Journals.

NEW BOOKS

Michelin star chef, Tom Kitchin, presents a look at traditional game recipes with “a focus on seasonality and the very best produce”

“Full of practical advice and visual examples…. Give you all the essential knowledge and ideas” to help you study.

This book provides foundational food science information and integrates it with practical applications. The book covers food chemistry to ingredients, whole foods, and baked and mixed foods. It also includes a comprehensive food science glossary.

“Critical reviews of issues in food and beverage management addressing variety of managerial dilemmas of a more complex nature such as how important is the meal experience and is food an art form?”

“This huge and beautiful book is a River Cottage encyclopedia of ingredients.”

This book examines, in thirteen essays, why 842 million people around the world are not meeting their dietary needs “and why food insecurity is not simply a matter of insufficient supply”  

NEW BOOKS

“Bureaucracy and compliance now seem less about managing the safety of the workers we are responsible for, and more about managing the liability of the people they work for.”

‘The Safety anarchist’ looks at human experience over bureaucratic regulations to better understand safety for employees.  

“By examining tourism and travel trends in a wide range of regions, this book offers new insight into impacts of economic, social and environmental changes on destination management, governance and development.”

Acclaimed wine writer Jon Bonne explains the art of wine matching in an easy to understand way and claims “a wine’s price rarely reflects its quality.”

“‘Tourism and Religion’ explores the oldest form of religion tourism – pilgrimage – from its original form to the multiple spiritual and secular variations practised today, along with issues and conflicts arising from the collision of religion and tourism.” 

“Focuses on issues such as gender division of food work, the impact of family income on diet, family meals, and the power children wield over the food they eat, the book offers a longitudinal view of family routines.”

VALENTINE'S READ

Happy Valentine’s Day to our Cathal Brugha students. Check out Anthony Bourdain’s book ‘Medium raw: a bloody valentine to the world of food and the people who cook’

 “Beginning with a secret and highly illegal after-hours gathering of powerful chefs in New York…”

NEW BOOKS

Four new books have just arrived to Cathal Brugha Street Library, be the first to check one out. Find them on the book stand beside the library desk.

A beginners guide on how to analysis and process your own survey, combining data analysis with survey design. Information on how to critically interpret surveys from scholarly articles, journals etc…

“From the tiniest garden to the grandest castle demesne and historic country house, from the most hidden sanctuary to our best loved public properties; this guide takes you on a grand tour of Ireland and 427 gardens that you can visit.”

An introductory book on market research which looks at both quantitative and qualitative methods and their reflecting trends in marketing. 

Includes a selection of recipes.

FEBRUARY OPENING TIMES