Brilliant new source for environmental health

All you environmental health people in Cathal Brugha Street may be pleased to know that the library have now obtained a superb new 5-volume Encyclopedia of environmental health, published by Elsevier and with Dr Jerome O. Nriagu as editor-in-chief.

The encyclopedia contains articles ranging alphabetically from Air pollution to Zinc toxicity. Entries are extensively cross-referenced and each article is itself thoroughly referenced. It is also remarkably readable, and is therefore likely to be accessible right down the academic food chain to first-year undergraduates.

All interested persons are urged to treat themselves to a browse. It lives on the reference shelves at shelfmark 614.7

*New Opening Hours*

From the week beginning February 28th 2011 the library at Cathal Brugha Street will be open 4 evenings a week. Our new openings hours will be Monday to Thursday 9am - 9pm, Friday 9am- 5pm and Saturdays from 10-5pm*.

We hope that these new opening hours will be of great benefit to students and staff alike.

*The only Saturdays we won't be open are Saturday the 26th of March and Saturday the 23rd of April.

E-books. Anytime, anywhere!

No longer need DIT staff and students despair when they need a book and the library is closed. Be it Sunday night or the wee hours of Tuesday morning, over 35,000 of DIT library's books can be read from any computer at any time.

This collection includes the full-texts of many of the standard course texts in a variety of modules.

To access these books, and to learn more about them, check out
http://www.dit.ie/library/a-z/ebooks/

Or contact your local DIT library for more details.

An excellent directory

There is a view these days that paper directories are out of date. That this is not so is proved by a new acquisition here in Cathal Brugha Street Library.

The new second edition of the World Directory of Business Information Sources, a 2-volume reference book, contains contact details for information on virtually every industry in every country on Earth.

This includes government bodies, media and publishing, industry organisations, educational and research institutions. It also has country by country listings for information sources on each sector of industry and on statistical sources for economic and market information.

A look at this directory is recommended for anyone who needs to get hold of commercial or economic information about the big bad world out there.

It is on our reference shelves at no.338.7025

School of Culinary Arts & Food Technology Open Day

The School of Culinary Arts and Food Technology is holding an Information Open Day on Thursday the 14th of April 2011 between 2-4pm on the Cathal Brugha Street campus.

You will be able to learn first hand from current students and staff what it is like to study any of the school's innovative and exciting courses. Courses such as the BA in Culinary Arts, the BSc in Bar Studies Management and Entrepreneurship, or the BSc in Baking and Pastry Arts Management.

You will also be able to visit the kitchens, restaurants and bar and bakery departments.

For further information click here

Evening closure, Tuesday 25 January

We regret that due to a staff shortage, Cathal Brugha St Library will have to close this evening (Tuesday 25th January) at 5.30pm.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused. We will be open again tomorrow from 9am -9pm.

Other DIT Library sites are open as normal.

Wireless Printing Available From Personal Laptops

Do you have a laptop with you in the library and you want to print documents directly from it? Well now you can. All DIT libraries now have wireless printing available from personal laptops as well as the normal printing and photocopying service we provide from DIT computers.

To set up your laptop to be able to print to one of the DIT printers in the library simply follow these steps. You will only have to do this once and then each time you go to print you can simply select the printer that you want to print to from a list on your laptop. Its that easy.

Payment for print jobs from laptops works in the same way as other printing- you will need to input your student number and money will taken off your student card.

Now you don't have to leave your study desk in the library to send something to the printer!

Examination Papers Available Online

All of the previous examination papers from the College of Arts and Tourism are available online through the library website.

Simply go to http://library.dit.ie/ click on the Exam Papers link, click on Quick Link to Recent Exam Papers and then choose the College of Arts and Tourism. All exam papers are listed by year and then by module code.

If you have any trouble finding exam papers online please contact the library.

Please note: you will need the Student Intranet username and password to access the exam papers from outside the library.