Attention New Students!!

A big Library welcome to all new students starting in St Patrick's this week! 

For undergraduates starting B.A. or B.Ed.courses we have Library tours and inductions scheduled over the next couple of weeks.  These are extremely useful and will give you everything you need to know to get started in St Patrick's College Library.

BA students will be taken in groups directly after your registration - either Tuesday or Wednesday of this week.

B.Ed.students are scheduled according to your B.Ed. group - see the allocated timeslots below:

Group A: Wednesday 2nd Oct @ 10 am
Group B: Wednesday 25th Sep @ 4.10 pm
Group C: Thursday 26th Sep @ 10 am
Group D: Thursday 26th Sep @ 4.10 pm
Group E: Monday 30th Sep @ 3 pm
Group F: Tuesday 1st Oct @ 4.10 pm
Group G: Wednesday 25th Sep @ 3 pm
Group H: Tuesday 1st Oct @ 9 am
Group I: Wednesday 25th Sep @ 2 pm
Group J: Monday 30th Sep @ 10 am
Group K: Monday 30th Sep @ 2 pm
Group L: Friday 27th Sep @ 9 am

Check the time for your group and come along - you won't want to miss this.

We look forward to seeing you!

Library Inductions

All new B.A. and B.Ed. students should make sure to attend a group tour over the next couple of weeks (if you haven't already).

They are quick and snappy and tell you all you need to know to hit the ground running with your studies and assignments.  

New B.Ed.students are scheduled according to their B.Ed. group - you can see your group's timeslot on the Síol section of our website here.

Tours for B.A. students were offered last week but if you missed yours for any reason please let us know either at the information desk or by email - info.library@spd.dcu.ie.

Info & Academic Skills Week

For the start of the new term the Library is running Information and Academic Skills Week (January 23-27) with events and training sessions for students.  Have a look below at what's on offer:

1) Academic Writing Skills Workshop
12 noon, Wednesday, 25th January in E201:
Writing consultant Lawrence Cleary from the Regional Writing Centre in University of Limerick will give a workshop on academic writing to all interested students. This event is presented in association with the Teaching and Learning Committee.  All are welcome so make sure not to miss it!

 2) One-to-one sessions
All week, at whatever level or area suits your needs:

• Where to start 
• develop a search strategy
• find what you need in the Library
• search the Catalogue
• save searches 
• locate books/journals
•  Using the internet for academic purposes 
• find online journals
• search the Library’s academic databases
• use other subject gateways and search engines
• use Google Scholar
• set up alerts/RSS feeds 
• get updates on new research in your area
• Give credit where credit is due 
• cite sources correctly and build your reference list
• use Turnitin to check you have referenced properly
• basic Refworks for beginners 
• advanced Refworks (write'n'cite for in-text citation, formatting your paper and bibliography, and using Refshare for group projects and sharing references with others). 

Just call to the Library or email us with details of what you want to cover in your session and we will set up an appointment for you with one of our SÍOL team.

3) Complete Our Survey
Finally, we'd ask you to help us improve our service by completing a quick online survey. This will help ensure that future events and training are tailored to YOUR needs!

Síol Workshops and Training

As part of Library Ireland Week (March 7-13), we are pleased to launch Síol Information and Research Support Service.

Good library and information services are an essential underpinning for research, just as they are for successful teaching and learning. Success in research depends critically on the quality of the information services to which researchers have accesss. We would like to invite you along to our refresher courses and basic demonstrations in using our Online Resources.

Over the next three weeks we are offering basic and refresher demonstrations in

• RefWorks Bibliography Manager
  
• Online Databases
• Using the Catalogue
• Journal searches
  
• Accessing Ebooks

For details of when and where these courses are taking place check the Síol page on our website.