Christmas Opening Hours at Mountjoy Square library

The library will close for the Christmas holidays on Friday the 21st of December 2012 at 5pm.
We will reopen on Wednesday the 2nd of January at 9:30am (when normal term time hours will resume).
Please click here for details of the opening hours from now until the 21st of December.

Happy Holidays!

Library Open This Saturday- 15th of December

The library will be open this Saturday, 15th of December.
Our opening hours are 10am-5pm.
For details of all our opening hours, including our Saturday opening schedule for the 2012/2013 academic year please click here

Library Open This Saturday

Mountjoy Square library will be open this Saturday, 17th of November.
Our opening hours are 10am-5pm.

For more information on the library opening hours and those of other DIT libraries please click here

Library Opening Hours for Bank Holiday

The library will be closed this Saturday 27th of October, and Monday 29th of October for the bank holiday weekend.

We will be open as normal for review week:
Tuesday - Thursday 9:30-9:30 and Friday 9:30-5:15pm
We will also be open on Saturday 3rd of November 10-5pm
For more information on our opening hours please click here

Information Evening on Children's Referendum

This Thursday, the 25th of October, DIT is to host an information evening on the forthcoming Children's Referendum which is due to be held on November 10th 2012.
The session will be chaired by Denise Lyons, president of Social Care Ireland.
More information on times and venue is available here

For more information on the proposed changes to our constitution please see the Children's Referendum website.

Library Open this Saturday

Mountjoy Square library will be open this Saturday the 6th of October.
Our opening hours are 10am-5pm.

For more information on the Saturdays that we will be open this term please see our Opening Hours on the library website

Return of Term-time Opening Hours at Mountjoy Square Library

The Library is now operating Term-time Opening Hours.

These hours are as follows:

Mon-Thurs: 9:30am to 9:30pm

Fri: 9:30am to 5:15pm

Sat*: 10am to 5:00pm

* The Library does not open every Saturday so please check with the Library in advance of visiting. Details will also be posted on this blog and noticeboards in the Library in advance of a Saturday when the library will be closed. The full list of Saturday openings is available here.

The first Saturday that the library will be open is October 6th.

Summer new books at Mountjoy Square Library

Check the links below to browse through lists of the new books which have arrived in the library during the summer period.

You can click on a direct link to the individual books records on the library catalogue, which will allow you to find out whereabouts the book is shelved in the library, or if someone else already has borrowed the book. The lists are divided by subject area to make it easier for you to browse.

Art and Design , Criminology , Social Sciences

Some of the more recent arrivals are displayed on the new books stand which is located just in front of the issue desk and the main entrance.

Trial of new database

Proquest Dialog have set us up with a free trial for Paperbase until 20th September.

Paperbase includes information on all aspects of the pulp, paper and nonwovens industries, from raw materials to finished products, including energy, recycling and other environmental issues, company news and in depth profiles, market information and statistics. Paperbase also follows the innovations in the fields of new materials and biorefining.

You can access the Paperbase trial from here.

Two new members named to Law Reform Commission

Two new members have been appointed to the Law Reform Commission following the announcement that Mr Justice John Quirke has become president of the advisory body. The new members are Marie Baker SC and the Galway university legal academic Prof Tom O’Malley.

(more here)

Parole Board Annual Report 2011

The Tenth Annual Report of the Parole Board has been published.

(more here)

Mountjoy Square Building summer opening hours

From Monday 25th June, summer opening hours will apply in DIT buildings.  The hours in each campus building have been updated on the Buildings Office website.

Trial of new database

The Library has gained access to the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: UK & Ireland database for a trial period. To access the database click here.

DIT Graduate Show 2012

DIT Graduate Show 2012 will run in select venues throughout Dublin city centre until Sunday, 24 June. Open to the public, and free of charge, DIT Grad Show_12 showcases the immense creativity and talent of final year students across an array of disciplines in DIT

(more here)

May new arrivals at Mountjoy Square Library

Check the links below to browse through lists of the new books which have arrived in the library during the month of May.

You can click on a direct link to the individual books records on the library catalogue, which will allow you to find out whereabouts the book is shelved in the library, or if someone else already has borrowed the book. The lists are divided by subject area to make it easier for you to browse.

Art and Design , Criminology , Social Sciences

Some of the more recent arrivals are displayed on the new books stand which is located just in front of the issue desk and the main entrance.

Mountjoy Square Library Summer Opening Hours

The library will be operating summer opening hours from Friday, 1st June.

The hours are as follows:
Monday-Friday: 9:30am - 5:15pm
No Saturday Opening

This means that the Library will be closed this Saturday, 2nd June.

2012 DIT BA Photography Exhibition

Students of photography in the DIT School of Media have announced details of the 2012 BA Photography Graduate Exhibition at the Gallery of Photography and the National Photographic Archive, Dublin.

(more here)

Inspector of Prisons: Annual Report 2011

The Minister for Justice, Mr. Alan Shatter, has published the Inspector of Prisons' Annual Report 2011.

(more here)

DIT lecturer elected President of Institute of Designers

John Walsh, Lecturer in Product and Furniture Design at the School of Art Design and Printing in DIT has been elected President of the Institute of Designers in Ireland.

(more here)

Mountjoy Square Exam Timetables and Exam Papers

The timetables for the summer exam period are now available here.

All previous years past exam papers are available here.

April new arrivals at Mountjoy Square Library

Check the below links to browse through lists of the new books which have arrived in the library during the month of April.

You can click on a direct link to the individual books records on the library catalogue, which will allow you to find out whereabouts the book is shelved in the library, or if someone else already has borrowed the book. The lists are divided by subject area to make it easier for you to browse.

Art and Design , Criminology , Social Sciences

Some of the more recent arrivals are displayed on the new books stand which is located just in front of the issue desk and the main entrance.

Document! exhibition at NCAD

Mon-Sat: 10am-5pm. Admission free. Apr 26-May 26

120 years of visual arts documentation in Ireland from the National Irish Visual Arts Library (NIVAL) at NCAD. The National Irish Visual Arts Library is a public research resource dedicated to the collection of information on 20th century and contemporary Irish visual art and design.

DOCUMENT! comprises selected Irish arts documentation from the library collection at NIVAL, from 1890 to the present day. A time-line of examples from each decade represents the physical and intellectual content of the library's collections, including printed ephemera, books and journals, exhibition catalogues, archives, special collections and digital material. NIVAL’s collection policy includes Irish visual art from the whole island as well as Irish art abroad and foreign artists working in Ireland.

The exhibition includes contemporary and historic collections such as the Artists and Galleries Files Collections, Illustrated Books, Posters, the Artists Books Collection, the College Student Registers (1877-1970s), the Earley and Company Archives (1852-1974), the Friends of the National Collections (1924-present), the Mainie Jellett Collection, the Irish Exhibition of Living Art (1947-1971), the Rosc ’71 Collection, and the Graphic Studio Dublin Archive (1960-present).

A new website, www.nival.ie, has been launched to mark NIVAL's 15th anniversary. A number of programmed public events coincide with DOCUMENT!. NIVAL is a partnership initiative of NCAD and the Arts Council. Supported by the Heritage Council, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.

Monthly Report on Arrow@DIT.ie

In March, 2012 ARROW@DIT had 53040 full-text downloads and 65 new submissions

The most popular papers were:

Learning Theories and Higher Education (773 Downloads)
Power Quality in Grid Connected Renewable Energy Systems: Role of Custom Power Devices (731 Downloads)
Festivals, events and tourism (636 Downloads)

The most popular publications were:

Conference papers electrical Engineering (4572 Downloads)
Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies (3319 Downloads)
Articles Hospitality Management and Tourism (2004 Downloads)

This is Ireland - Highlights from the Census Part 1

The first definitive results of the 2011 census, undertaken just less than a year ago on 10th April 2011, were released today and show that Ireland’s population has continued to grow strongly since 2006, increasing by 348,404 to 4,588,252, and that the total number of non-Irish nationals has increased by 124,624 persons or 29.7 per cent from 419,733 to 544,357.

(more here and here)

Mountjoy Square Library ebooks collection

The Library has recently acquired access to a number of ebooks. As the name suggests, ebooks are an online version of a particular text.

Unlike the hard copy version of a book which at a given time can be unavailable as all it's copies are on loan, an ebook is always available to view online.

Ebooks are available as a link from the Library Catalogue.

Mountjoy Square Library's top 10 DVDs

The following DVD's were the 10 most borrowed from Mountjoy Square Library during 2011.

Helvetica : a documentary film a production of Swiss Dots in association with Veer ; produced and directed by Gary Hustwit

Art : 21 : art in the twent-first century Season 1 and 2 produced and curated by Susan Sollins and directed by Charles Atlas

Turas teanga : a multimedia course in Irish developed and commissioned by RTÉ

The Eye directed by David Batchelor

Frank Lloyd Wright a film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick

Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image: interviews by Hans Ulrich Obrist

Street art - painting the city : London Paris Madrid published and distributed by Tate Media

Face of the twentieth century : Bauhaus written and narrated by Frank Whitford, produced by Julia Cave

Child observation no. 7 : time and event sampling produced by Siren Film & Video Ltd

Tracey Emin part of the Eye series of interview-based profiles

DVDs are held in the computer section of the library. They may be borrowed for 7 days or watched in the Library on the computers. Headphones are provided. Just ask at the desk.

Opening Hours extended at Mountjoy Square Library

From Monday 5th of March Mountjoy Square Library will be returning to the previously operating term time opening hours.

They are:
Mon-Thurs: 9.30am to 9.30pm
Friday: 9.30am to 5.15pm
Saturday: 10.00am to 5.00pm (check here for Saturday opening schedule)

The main change is that the Library will be back open on Monday evenings.

February new books at Mountjoy Square Library

Check the below links to browse through lists of the new books which have arrived in the library during the month of February.

You can click on a direct link to the individual books records on the library catalogue, which will allow you to find out whereabouts the book is shelved in the library, or if someone else already has borrowed the book. The lists are divided by subject area to make it easier for you to browse.

Art and Design , Criminology , Social Sciences

Some of the more recent arrivals are displayed on the new books stand which is located just in front of the issue desk and the main entrance.

New Opening Hours at Mountjoy Square Library

Due to staffing changes, Mountjoy Square library has had to revise term-time opening hours.

From Monday 30th January 2012, the library's opening hours will be as follows:

Mon: 9.30am - 5:15pm. (i.e. no Monday evening opening)

Tues - Thurs: 9.30am - 9.30pm

Fri: 9.30am - 5.15pm.

Saturday: 10.00am - 5.15pm (no Saturday opening on 25th February, 17th March or 7th April)

Tips on accessing Mountjoy Square Exam Papers

There are numerous way to access the exam papers from the DIT website.

The shortest way is to click this link and pick your course from those listed. To save time in future bookmark that page.

To access that page from the website itself, go to the Mountjoy Square Library webpage and select "Exam Papers" in the services section of the page.

Or else from the Library web OPAC (also known as the Library catalogue), select Exam Papers from the options list, then click on "Quick Link to Recent Exam Papers" and select the 4th option "College of Arts and Tourism, Mountjoy Square : examination papers".

Alternatively from the Mountjoy Square Library webpage, selecting from one of the resource bars at the end of the page will bring you to that subject gateway page. Selecting the link for "Exam Papers" on the subject gateway page will then give you a tailored list of the exam papers in that subject area only.

The papers are arranged in order of the exam period when the paper was originally sat, so bear in mind that some subjects may have been moved around between the Semester One or Summer Exam periods in different years. Also bear in mind that there may be some relevent papers also in the supplemental exam period.

Pay attention to the guidance on accessing these papers from OUTSIDE the DIT network as well as to any other advice listed on the exam papers pages.

Mountjoy Square Semester One Exam Timetables now available

The exam timetables for the forthcoming Semester One exams are now available from the Mountjoy Square Library home page.

Or else you can click here