Saturday Opening in Cathal Brugha Street Library

To facilitate students studying for exams, DIT Cathal Brugha Street Library will be open from 10am to 5pm on the following Saturdays:

4 May
11 May
18 May

Please note that hours may change at short notice due to staff shortages. Please phone if you plan visiting the library on a Saturday.

To see the Saturday schedule for all of the DIT libraries click here.

Call for food entrepreneurs

Bord Bia, Enterprise Ireland, and Teagasc have come together to set up Foodworks, a programme to foster new Irish food export businesses. Standards are high to get onto the programme, amongst other things you must have a track record in business, or be part of a team of entrepreneurs one of whom has experience in the food industry; be able to show that your product is new or innovative in the food industry; and be able to show that there is an export market for your product. A full list of eligibility criteria is available here.

However, once on the programme, successful applicants will have access to all Bord Bia's consumer research, receive one to one mentoring, and visit an overseas market in the process of developing and sense checking their idea. They will also be given support in validating their product through access to research and development expertise, pilot scale production facilities, food incubation units and product testing. The final stage will involve testing the product's commercial viability, consumer value, and export potential, resulting in a detailed and financially sound business plan.

Stage one of the programme has already started but Foodworks is still accepting applications for stage two of the programme. For more information see the Foodworks website.

Classes for chocolatiers

As they munch their way through their Easter eggs this weekend, budding chocolatiers might be interested to know that the Lorge Chocolatier School, based in Kenmare Co. Kerry, is currently running one and two day classes on making chocolate. The school offers a range of courses, from beginner to professional classes, that cover everything from the history of chocolate to marketing strategies for future businesses. The classes are expensive (the one-day 'pro chocolate course' costs €180) but they are limited to four students per class and given by Master Chocolatier Benoit Lorge.

For more information email info@lorge.ie

Easter Opening Hours at Cathal Brugha St Library

DIT Cathal Brugha St Library will be open over Easter as follows:

Monday	25thMarch	9am - 9pm
Tuesday	26th March	9am - 9pm
Wednesday	27th March	9am - 9pm
Thursday	28th March	9am - 1pm
Friday	29th March	Closed
Monday	1st April	Closed
Tuesday	2nd April	9am - 9pm
Wednesday	3rd April	9am - 9pm
Thursday	4th April	9am - 5:30pm
Friday	5th April	9am - 5pm

Happy Easter!

St Patrick's day long weekend

 

The library will be closed on Monday 18th March for the St Patrick's day bank holiday. We will be open again as normal on Tuesday 19th March. Opening hours for that week will be as follows:

Monday 18th        Closed
Tuesday 19th        9am to 9pm
Wednesday 20th   9am to 9pm
Thursday 21st       9am to 5:30pm
Friday 22nd          9am to 5pm

Happy St Patrick's Day!

Culinary Arts lecturer and students on Six One News

Culinary Arts Lecturer, Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire, along with students, David Malone and David Kelly, and former Cathal Brugha St student Pádraic Óg Gallagher, the Chef/Owner of Gallagher's Boxty House, were interviewed last week on RTE Six One News about the reintroduction to the retail market of the Irish lumper potato.

The Irish lumper potato was widely cultivated in Ireland during the first half of the nineteenth century and by the 1840s Irish farmers had become massively dependent on the potato. After potato blight caused a series of crop failures, and ultimately the Great Famine of 1845-52 during which a over a million people died, the lumper potato ceased to be cultivated in Ireland.

Now, Michael McKillop of Glens of Antrim Potatoes, who became interested in the history of the lumper potato seven years ago, has reintroduced it to the retail market and it will be available from March 11th.

To see the item on Six One News click here.

UCC molecular gastronomy workshop

University College Cork are running a one day workshop on molecular gastronomy on 21st February. Speakers will include Ross Lewis (Chapter One Restaurant, Dublin), Professor Herve This (AgroParis Tech, Paris), Professor Jorge Ruiz (University of Extremadura, Spain), Dr Juan Valverde (Teagasc), and Quico Sosa (Sosa, Spain). Click here for more information on the workshop.

Students of molecular gastronomy will be aware that Prof Herve This is one of the world's leading experts on molecular gastronomy. He has written a number of books on the subject which are available in the library, for a list of Prof This' books click here.

There is also an article in today's Irish Times about the upcoming workshop. Click here for the article.

RECENTLY ADDED E-BOOKS, FEB 2013

A number of relevant e-books have recently been uploaded onto the DIT library catalogue.

They are:

Atrill, P. Financial management for decision makers, 6th ed.

Coles, T. Student’s guide to writing dissertations and theses in tourism studies and related disciplines

Cooper, C. Contemporary tourism, 2nd ed.

Davis, B. Food and beverage management, 5th ed

Hall, C. Food tourism around the world

Larkin, E. How to run a great hotel

Medlik, S. Dictionary of travel, tourism and hospitality 3rd ed

Nickson, D. Human resource management for the hospitality and tourism industries

Rimmington, M. Entrepreneurship in the hospitality, tourism and leisure industries

Wirzba, N. Food and faith

These can be accessed via an author or title search on the library catalogue at http://library.dit.ie/

Users accessing these books from home will need to supply their student number and a PIN code.