http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2846 2017-11-03T18:51:57Z 2017-11-03T18:51:57Z Salmanidou, Dimitra - Makrina http://hdl.handle.net/10197/8603 2017-06-14T11:38:10Z 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z

Numerical modelling and statistical emulation of landslide induced tsunamis: the Rockall Bank slide complex, NE Atlantic Ocean Salmanidou, Dimitra - Makrina This thesis studies submarine sliding and tsunami generation at the Rockall Bank, NE Atlantic Ocean through numerical and statistical modelling. Two numerical codes are used to perform the simulations from the submarine sliding to tsunami generation, propagation and inundation. The landslide model is VolcFlow and the tsunami model is VOLNA. Some of the basic rheological regimes used to model submarine landslides are briefly discussed, with a comparison in the case of the Rockall Bank. The latest version of VOLNA is validated against an analytical solution. The brief geological history of the area under study is also given. The numerical simulations explore different scenarios of failure in the area, and assess their tsunamigenic potential and the impact of the tsunamis on the current topography of the Irish shoreline. The results of the simulations exhibit a great variability that derives from the parameters used as input in the landslide model. There is a need to quantify this uncertainty. To do so, a Bayesian calibration of the parameters is initially performed, which leads to the posterior distributions of the input parameters. A statistical emulator, which acts as a surrogate of the numerical process is then built. The emulator can lead to predictions of the process in excessively fast (when compared to the simulations) computational speeds. For the examined case, the emulator propagates the uncertainties in the distributions of the input parameters resulting from the calibration, to the outputs. As a result, the predictions of the maximum free surface elevation at specified locations are obtained.

2017-01-01T00:00:00Z Greene, Joseph http://hdl.handle.net/10197/8464 2017-10-13T09:18:44Z 2017-05-24T00:00:00Z

Developing COUNTER standards to measure the use of Open Access resources Greene, Joseph There are currently no standards for measuring the use of open digital content, including cultural heritage materials, research data, institutional repositories and open access journals. Such standards would enable libraries and publishers that invest in open digital infrastructure to make evidence-based decisions and demonstrate the return on this investment. The most closely related standard, the COUNTER Code of Practice (CoP), was designed for subscription access e-resources and ensures that publishers provide consistent, credible and comparable usage data. In the open environment, computer programs known as web robots constantly download open content and must be filtered out of usage statistics. The COUNTER Robots Working Group has recently been formed to address this problem and to recommend robot detection techniques that are accurate, applicable and feasible for any provider of open content. Once accepted, they will be incorporated into the COUNTER CoP 5. In this paper we describe the overall goals of the analysis, the scope and techniques for building the dataset and the robot detection techniques under investigation. 9th International Conference on Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries (QQML2017), Limerick, Ireland, 23-26 May 2017

2017-05-24T00:00:00Z Barrett, Julia Dalton, Michelle Greene, Joseph Harper, Charles O'Neill, Jenny Schoen, Ricki http://hdl.handle.net/10197/8397 2017-03-22T15:50:35Z 2017-03-22T00:00:00Z

Open Access Publishing Survey: Research Managers / Administrators Barrett, Julia; Dalton, Michelle; Greene, Joseph; Harper, Charles; O'Neill, Jenny; Schoen, Ricki The aim of this survey is for the University Research Managers and Administrators Network (URMAN) Open Access Group to better understand the level of engagement of URMAN members and other research managers/administrators who work with their PIs/researchers on the topic of Open Access and Open Data. The results will help to feed into future training and other activities to support your requirements in assisting researchers in this area.

2017-03-22T00:00:00Z Barrett, Julia Dalton, Michelle Greene, Joseph Harper, Charles O'Neill, Jenny Schoen, Ricki http://hdl.handle.net/10197/8396 2017-03-22T15:51:37Z 2017-03-22T00:00:00Z

Open Access Publishing Survey Barrett, Julia; Dalton, Michelle; Greene, Joseph; Harper, Charles; O'Neill, Jenny; Schoen, Ricki This aim of this survey is to better understand your level of awareness, perceptions and use (or non-use) of the various Open Access channels. The results will help to feed into future training and other activities to support your requirements in this area.

2017-03-22T00:00:00Z Pan, Rosalind Patterson, Avril http://hdl.handle.net/10197/8165 2016-11-29T12:31:00Z 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Delivering a structured pre-course intern programme at University College Dublin Library Pan, Rosalind; Patterson, Avril This article outlines a structured six week interns' programme to provide work experience for those going on to courses in the School of Information and Communication Studies at UCD, or the relevant courses at Dublin Business School. The history of the programme, its re-launch, the content and our experiences in running it are briefly outlined.

2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Dalton, Michelle Kouker, Alexander O'Connor, Martin http://hdl.handle.net/10197/7796 2016-07-26T15:16:21Z 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many voices: Building a Biblioblogosphere in Ireland Dalton, Michelle; Kouker, Alexander; O'Connor, Martin Blogging has been associated with the Library and Information Science (LIS) community for some time now. Libfocus.com is an online blog that was founded in 2011. Its goal was to create a communal communication space for LIS professionals in Ireland and beyond, to share and discuss issues and ideas. The content of the blog is curated by an editorial team, and features guest bloggers from across all sectors and experience levels. Using a qualitative methodological approach, open-ended surveys were conducted with twelve previous guest bloggers, in order to explore how and why Irish-based LIS professionals choose to communicate through blogging. It is hoped that this evidence will provide a greater understanding of both the value and effectiveness of blogging as an outreach and communication tool within the profession, helping both libraries and librarians to be more strategic in their use of it as a medium.

2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Greene, Joseph http://hdl.handle.net/10197/7682 2016-09-14T14:02:16Z 2016-07-01T00:00:00Z

Web robot detection in scholarly Open Access institutional repositories Greene, Joseph Purpose -- This paper investigates the impact and techniques for mitigating the effects of web robots on usage statistics collected by Open Access institutional repositories (IRs). Design/methodology/approach -- A review of the literature provides a comprehensive list of web robot detection techniques. Reviews of system documentation and open source code are carried out along with personal interviews to provide a comparison of the robot detection techniques used in the major IR platforms. An empirical test based on a simple random sample of downloads with 96.20% certainty is undertaken to measure the accuracy of an IR's web robot detection at a large Irish University. Findings -- While web robot detection is not ignored in IRs, there are areas where the two main systems could be improved. The technique tested here is found to have successfully detected 94.18% of web robots visiting the site over a two-year period (recall), with a precision of 98.92%. Due to the high level of robot activity in repositories, correctly labelling more robots has an exponential effect on the accuracy of usage statistics. Limitations -- This study is performed on one repository using a single system. Future studies across multiple sites and platforms are needed to determine the accuracy of web robot detection in OA repositories generally. Originality/value -- This is the only study to date to have investigated web robot detection in IRs. It puts forward the first empirical benchmarking of accuracy in IR usage statistics.

2016-07-01T00:00:00Z Williams, Nerys http://hdl.handle.net/10197/7402 2016-01-22T17:16:33Z 2012-04-01T00:00:00Z

Bilingualism: Slippage of a Phoeneme or Two Williams, Nerys One in a series of poetics essays/ manifesto essays on Bilingualism. Draws on poetic practice.

2012-04-01T00:00:00Z Williams, Nerys http://hdl.handle.net/10197/7262 2016-01-22T17:11:31Z 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Michael Palmer: Recovering a constellation of voices Williams, Nerys Can we consider poetry as an act of recovery and the simultaneous 'unbinding' of a tale? For the American poet, Michael Palmer, these two apparently conflicting possibilities become mutually dependent strategies.

2003-01-01T00:00:00Z Williams, Nerys http://hdl.handle.net/10197/7219 2015-11-16T11:09:47Z 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gwyneth Lewis: Blasphemy, taboo and testing bilingualism Williams, Nerys How does a language die? What is the premonitory that leads to that death and who is culpable? Forget momentarily the well-intentioned optimism of draft legislatures and bilingual mandates. Gwyneth Lewis gives the reader an incisive imagining of the final scene with her epitaph in 'Welsh Espionage'.

2003-01-01T00:00:00Z Williams, Nerys http://hdl.handle.net/10197/7181 2015-11-05T13:21:55Z 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

'What I wanted was nothing to do with monuments' Erring and Lyn Hejinian's The Guard Williams, Nerys In considering Hejinian’s poetry, I will attempt to examine how this transformative approach to theory and practice is orchestrated within the structure of the poetry book. Furthermore, this essay will consider how the figure of the book presents what Hejinian terms a certain “lyric dilemma” or “aporia” between a formal construction and a provisional enquiry. This tension between structure and spontaneity is one which Hejinian’s poetics both embraces and celebrates. Eventually, I will suggest that we can further understand the tensions between formal “containment”, a spontaneous lyricism, and a transformative impulse, through a reading of “erring” in Hejinian’s The Guard (1984). Drawing from Hejinian’s early poetics, an “erring” reading of the momentum and dynamics generated within the scope of her poetry book will allow us to reflect upon the discreet negotiation between intentionality and provisionality which her poetry enacts.

2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Williams, Nerys http://hdl.handle.net/10197/7180 2015-11-05T13:07:55Z 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lyric Encounters with Other Places: Juliana Spahr's this connection of everyone with lungs and Robert Minhinnick's 'An Isotope Dreaming' Williams, Nerys The chapter considers the work of Juliana Spahr and Robert Minhinnick. Their poetry has been productively approached as performing an ecological writing or ecopoetics. This discussion considers the relationship between lyricism and encounters with other places in their war poetry. For Spahr these encounters are with virtual places, mediated through information and newsgathering systems. Minhinnick's travelogue uses the conceit of radioactive dispersal as a way of foregrounding multiple transitions in his work. His lyric attempts a dissemination of self that can establish a sustainable reflection upon war. Ultimately, both poets' shared position of negotiating ideas of encounter in their poetry creates a lyric form that addresses war by focusing on processes of mobility, transition and inclusion.

2013-01-01T00:00:00Z Williams, Nerys http://hdl.handle.net/10197/7167 2015-10-20T09:21:28Z 2015-03-01T00:00:00Z

Hands (after Geta Bratescu) Williams, Nerys

2015-03-01T00:00:00Z Williams, Nerys http://hdl.handle.net/10197/7157 2015-10-14T09:58:26Z 2011-08-01T00:00:00Z

Poetics Williams, Nerys This chapter presents an overview of current critical enterprises regarding the conceptualisation of poetics primarily in twentieth and twenty-first century poetries. Covering criticism published during 2010, this review assesses debates concerning the tensions between a poetics of self expression and the public sphere, the political efficacy of contemporary poetry, the impact of Asia and Asian philosophy on American poetics, the identity of Jewish-American modernist and contemporary poetics, as well as the relationship between poetry, community and social relations. The chapter also introduces a critical reconvening or re-reading of the New American Poetry in tandem with reflections on configurations of masculinity, subjectivity and phenomenology. Comparative readings of the modern ruin are offered through readings of European poets and poets of the Americas. Moreover the discussion incorporates recent studies on the following: poetry that perform encounters with the nonhuman world, the regeneration of the lyric impulse by contemporary poets, how poetry reflects upon issues of displacement and exile as well as a reflection on the negative effect of poststructuralist discourse on the critical reception of certain poetries in the past.

2011-08-01T00:00:00Z O'Neill, Geraldine http://hdl.handle.net/10197/7137 2015-10-02T09:06:45Z 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Curriculum Design in Higher Education: Theory to Practice O'Neill, Geraldine This eBook emphasises the theory to practice of curriculum design in higher education. The book focuses on programme (not module) level of design; incorporates face-to-face, blended and online curricula; attempts to link theory to practice by giving some practical resources and/or exercises; draws the author's experiences of working and researching into curriculum design in the Irish higher education sector; is aimed at all staff involved in curriculum design, including academic staff (faculty), institutional managers, educational developers and technologists, support staff, library staff and curriculum researchers; is primarily drawn from literature and experiences in the higher education sector, however those in adult and further education may also find it useful. The structure of this book is based on a curriculum design process that the author has developed as part of her experience and research on curriculum design. 

2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Dalton, Michelle Tumelty, Niamh http://hdl.handle.net/10197/7055 2015-09-17T11:23:57Z 2014-04-01T00:00:00Z

Information Literacy Journal Club Dalton, Michelle; Tumelty, Niamh The Information Literacy Journal Club (http://infolitjournalclub.blogspot.co.uk/) is an online discussion group that focuses on information literacy and other aspects of user education. The journal club was originally set up on the Blogger platform in December 2012 by Niamh Tumelty (University of Cambridge) and Sheila Webber (University of Sheffield), and since then the community involved has grown to include a range of professionals interested in the area.

2014-04-01T00:00:00Z Daly, Nicholas http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6528 2017-09-25T11:20:22Z 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Britain at the Fin de Siècle Daly, Nicholas

2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Daly, Nicholas http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6491 2015-04-16T11:06:30Z 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Melodrama and the Affective Arts of the Nineteenth Century Daly, Nicholas In this essay I want to consider some of the ways in which nineteenth-century art, drama, and literature emotionally engaged their audience through melodrama, an affective form that aimed at a physical response in the subject as much, or more, than a cerebral one. Effects were harnessed to produce affects: sometimes tears, sometimes suspense. I want to approach this topic through the melodramatic representation of the city.

2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Daly, Nicholas http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6490 2017-09-01T01:00:11Z 2017-03-01T00:00:00Z

Art and its others 1: the aesthetics of technology Daly, Nicholas Modernism first emerges during the transformations of time and space wrought by the age of steam, and it comes to dominance against the background of the 'second industrial revolution'. This revolution, which was really more of an intensification of earlier processes, was driven by, inter alia, the exploitation of electricity and the internal combustion engine, use of early plastics (celluloid, and later bakelite), the oneiric power of the cinematograph, the sound -­- reproduction technology of the phonograph, and the communications technologies of the telephone and later the radio. In theoretical terms one could argue that there is no space, no "and" between modernism and these technological shifts: they are bound together in a common culture. But for practical purposes we can describe a set of relations between the two.

2017-03-01T00:00:00Z Daly, Nicholas http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6480 2015-04-14T10:17:16Z 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Fiction, Theatre, and Early Cinema Daly, Nicholas A chapter such as this can provide only a partial account of the web of connections among popular modes in the nineteenth century, and their subsequent remediation. I have focused here on some strands of this web – tales of the city, melodrama, sensation, and spectacle – at the expense of others that were equally significant: burlesque, slapstick, and other comic modes, minstrelsy, and empire narratives, to name only a few. It would also be possible to trace the way in which individual careers (e.g. those of William Le Queux, Elinor Glyn) straddle the late Victorian literary world and that of the cinema. Moreover, an account such as this foregrounds text (or play, or film), at the expense of performance. Victorian music hall, and in the U.S., vaudeville, provided alternative, working-class dominated public spheres n which evolved routines, characters, and physical styles that migrated to Hollywood through the careers of such figures as Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, and Buster Keaton. But I hope that even an account as partial as this suggests the high levels of continuity between nineteenth-century popular culture and that of the early twentieth century, while also signaling some of the breaks.

2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Daly, Nicholas http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6477 2016-10-01T01:00:11Z 2014-10-23T00:00:00Z

The Senses in Literature, 1800 to 1920: Industry and Empire Daly, Nicholas This chapter will look at the role of the senses in literature across a diverse period, spanning Romantic, Victorian and Modernist literary formations. There are, nonetheless, significant continuities across this period, since all three formations react to the alteration of sensory experience by modernization and an increasingly self-­‐conscious imperialism. New conceptions of time and space, new sights, sounds, tastes and odours, and new tactile worlds, accompanied these developments, and were refracted, incorporated, and theorized in literary works.

2014-10-23T00:00:00Z O'Neill, Geraldine Hung, Woei http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6475 2015-04-13T10:58:13Z 2010-01-26T00:00:00Z

Seeing the landscape and the forest floor: changes made to improve the connectivity of concepts in a hybrid problem-based learning curriculum O'Neill, Geraldine; Hung, Woei Problem-based learning (PBL) curricula utilise authentic problems that are based in the real-world of practice. This very characteristic enables students to develop an intimate knowledge about the intricacies of practice, metaphorically, seeing the details of the forest floor. However, it is equally important for students to develop an overall conceptual framework of the curriculum and understand how the different aspects of the subject domain relate to each other, i.e. seeing the landscape. This paper explores the extent to which these two aspects of curriculum design, in particular the landscape, were achieved in an 'Education Theories' module for lecturers in higher education. It utilises Hung's 3C3R problem-design model to help develop these connections. The findings alert curriculum designers to pay more focused attention to the holistic problem from Hung's model and the model's relationship with other learning resources (lectures, etc.) in supporting connectivity in PBL hybrid curricula.

2010-01-26T00:00:00Z O'Neill, Geraldine http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6474 2015-04-13T10:55:58Z 2010-03-22T00:00:00Z

Initiating curriculum revision: Exploring the practices of educational developers O'Neill, Geraldine Curriculum revision is an important part of academic work. Despite theoretical literature on curriculum development and design, there is a scarcity of literature available for either academic staff or novice educational developers on the initiation of this curriculum revision process. This study, therefore, set out to explore the practices of experienced Irish and UK educational developers working in this area. A mixture of in‐depth interviews followed by a semi‐structured questionnaire was used to explore the approaches of these educational developers. The results suggest that curriculum revision tends to benefit from initial, intensive dialogue between educational developers and academic staff, and that such initial interaction provides an important understanding of the context in which the curriculum revision occurs. This paper highlights that despite some suggested starting points at programme and module level, educational developers should be open and flexible in their approach to this activity.

2010-03-22T00:00:00Z Watts, Niall http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6466 2015-04-09T17:01:58Z 2014-12-01T00:00:00Z

The Relationship between Learning Style and Reflection in Student Blogs Watts, Niall Authentic blogging allows students to develop their own thoughts and exchange ideas with their peers without activities or assessment set by an educator (Downes, 2006). Research on learning processes in higher education has found that blogging can encourage and facilitate reflection (Hall & Davison, 2007; Xie, Ke & Sharma, 2008). Reflection is associated with higher- order learning outcomes and a deep approach to learning and as such is considered desirable in higher education (Garrison & Vaughan, 2008; Moon, 1999; Ramsden, 2003). Some students find reflection difficult (Xie et al, 2008) while others may not reflect in the absence of set tasks and assessment (Mackey, 2007). A preference for e-learning tools, such as blogs, and an aptitude for reflection may relate to a student's preferred learning style (Kolb, 1984; Kolb & Kolb, 2005; Saeed, Yang, & Sinnappan, 2009). This exploratory study investigates the extent to which undergraduate students are engaging in authentic blogging where tasks are not assigned by a lecturer, the extent to which their writing shows evidence of reflection under these conditions and the influence, if any, of their learning style on their blogging practice. The study participants were eleven final year students on an undergraduate Multimedia and Communications course in a non-traditional university-level institution in Ireland. Six of these students kept blogs over an eighteen-month period. An analysis of the ninety-two student blog posts and thirty-one comments in this study found that over one third were reflective, using discourse analysis based on Hatton and Smith (1995), while analysis of a questionnaire based on Kember and Leung (2000) found the student bloggers to be reflective learners. Most of the bloggers and all the most prolific bloggers showed a preference for Kolb's converging learning style. Albeit with a small sample, this study suggests that authentic blogs are effective tools for engaging undergraduates in reflection. It suggests that, despite misgivings about the lack of structure and scaffolding, lecturers can encourage their students to engage in authentic blogging as a means of developing reflection.

2014-12-01T00:00:00Z O'Neill, Geraldine McMahon, Sinead http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6462 2015-04-09T16:37:06Z 2012-05-18T00:00:00Z

Giving Student Groups a Stronger Voice: Using Participatory Research and Action (PRA) to Initiate Change to a Curriculum O'Neill, Geraldine; McMahon, Sinead Traditional student feedback mechanisms have been criticised for being teacher-centered in design and in particular, for their absence of transparent follow-up actions. In contrast, this study describes the process and the evaluation of a participatory research and action (PRA) approach used in an undergraduate Physiotherapy degree. This approach aimed to give students a stronger voice in order to identify the issues they felt were most important and to involve them in the subsequent actions to change or influence their curriculum. Using group consensus, key areas were identified by the students using a variety of PRA techniques, solutions were recommended and some actions implemented. Both students and staff maintained that the process had gone some way to empowering students and had begun a ripple effect in relation to student involvement in on-going curriculum design and debate.

2012-05-18T00:00:00Z O'Neill, Geraldine Donnelly, Roisin Fitzmaurice, Marian http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6461 2015-06-11T03:00:18Z 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Supporting programme teams to develop sequencing in higher education curricula O'Neill, Geraldine; Donnelly, Roisin; Fitzmaurice, Marian Curriculum sequencing is central to promoting a coherent student experience. Yet in the higher education context, the concept and practice of curriculum sequencing have not been fully explored. This research examined how seven programme teams approached the issue of sequencing across two Irish higher education institutions. A phenomenological approach was used to explore actions, challenges, and enhancers to sequencing. The three key themes emerging were: developing a collective philosophy; communicating the sequencing clearly; and, developing strong building blocks. Ideas are presented on how academic developers can work with academic staff to improve sequencing in their curricula.

2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Jennings, David http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6423 2017-02-21T10:18:05Z 2014-12-01T00:00:00Z

Mindful of the Future: Improving Student Assessment Jennings, David The assessment process and the ability to reliably evaluate a learners progress is fundamental to education (Biggs, 2003; Trotter, 2006), furthermore the chosen modality asserts an undue influence over the consequent learning behaviour of students (Hamdorf and Hall, 2001). This paper proposes that the effective use of mindfulness as a metacognitive skill in the assessment process in third level education can alleviate critical issues with student engagement, performance and retention. The paper captures the impact of mindfulness on current academic practices through a series of narrative inquiries. The data is taken from a range of discipline bases and highlights a myriad of approaches from an academic perspective. It concludes with guidelines for faculty and students to enable them to deploy the practice of mindfulness within the assessment regime and in support of learning. SRHE Annual Research Conference, Newport, South Wales, United Kingdom, 9th December, 2014

2014-12-01T00:00:00Z Jennings, David http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6422 2015-03-18T10:12:07Z 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Virtually Effective: The Measure of a Learning Environment Jennings, David This chapter examines the preliminary findings of a recent user survey of the staff use of the virtual learning environment (VLE) Blackboard™ in University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland. Many Higher Education Institutes (HEI) are in the early stages of adoption and implementation of such systems. The results from this small survey serve to reflect a portion of the current dilemmas facing the individual academic and institute.

2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Jenning, David Cashman, Diane http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6421 2015-03-18T10:04:06Z 2008-11-01T00:00:00Z

Mature Cynics and Fledgling Eclectics: Instructional Desing for the Net Generation Jenning, David; Cashman, Diane This chapter analyses how faculty are currently dealing with the needs of the "net generation" in the realm of higher education (HE) and use of e-learning. It reviews the socially orientated Web 2.0 technologies and their impact on teaching and strategic policy. It also assesses whether a model of generational distinctions is applicable to the methodological practices of teaching and learning.

2008-11-01T00:00:00Z Molloy, James Boyle, Susan http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6344 2015-02-06T10:05:57Z 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eposter design: a leap into the unknown Molloy, James; Boyle, Susan If you haven’t yet come across the concept of the electronic poster or ‘eposter’, then chances are you probably will sometime soon as the format will certainly come into popularity at conferences in the coming years. This article aims to share a recent experience we had of transforming a traditional printed poster presented at the 2014 LILAC conference and turning it into an eposter for the EdTech 2014 conference here in Dublin.

2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Greene, Joseph http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6335 2015-02-06T09:49:28Z 2015-01-29T00:00:00Z

BulkWithdraw: A DSpace utility to withdraw and reinstate a list of items Greene, Joseph DSpace utility to withdraw and reinstate a list of items. Withdraws items via the DSpace API. Removes items from browse indexes, OAI-PMH interface and updates the dc.description.provenence field as expected. Tested on DSpace 1.8.2. Install in [dspace_src]/dspace/modules/api/src/main/java/org/dspace/content and rebuild DSpace. Call by running [dspace]/bin/dspace dsrun org.dspace.content.BulkWithdraw login_email password itemIdsFile [reinstate]. ItemIDsFile is a list of DSpace item_ids to be withdrawn, one item_id per line. The default mode is withdraw. Optionally, add 'reinstate' as the fourth argument to completely reverse the process.

2015-01-29T00:00:00Z Pine, Emilie http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6257 2017-02-01T02:00:08Z 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Body of Evidence: Performing Hunger Pine, Emilie Post-conflict films of the Northern Irish Troubles are, overwhelmingly, male-dominated narratives. These screen stories are marked not by representations of militarized masculinities, but by victimized masculinity and the struggle for masculine definition. This has less to do with the wider-scale perceived ‘crisis in masculinity’ which inflects British films such as The Full Monty (Peter Cattaneo, 1997) and Irish films such as I Went Down (Paddy Breathnach, 1997), and more to do with creating a post-conflict masculinity that audiences can identify with in the context of the peace process and, in this context, that audiences can extend understanding and forgiveness to. Thistrend is particularly noticeable in films about the 1981 Hunger Strike.

2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Pine, Emilie http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6256 2014-12-19T12:37:52Z 2012-09-01T00:00:00Z

'This is what I need you to do to make it right': Conor McPherson's I Went Down Pine, Emilie Conor McPherson’s first film project, I Went Down (1997), is all about screwing it up, then making it right. The film follows the fortunes of two hapless and somewhat accidental gangsters as they careen around the Irish countryside in a series of stolen cars desperately seeking a fugitive and a set of forged dollar printing-plates. McPherson’s characters are familiar types: inarticulate Irish men trapped in narrow identities because of their inability to change. Yet what makes I Went Down a successful black comedy is the way the McPherson’s screenplay, and the finished film, modulate these character types with a genial humanity that is, in the end, redemptive.

2012-09-01T00:00:00Z Pine, Emilie http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6255 2014-12-19T12:25:46Z 2013-08-01T00:00:00Z

Commemorating Abuse: Gender Politics and Making Space Pine, Emilie Recent cultural explorations of Ireland's history of institutional abuse have focussed on buildings as ways of creating a commemorative space for this history. Brokentalkers' The Blue Boy (2011), Anu Productions' Laundry (2011), and Evelyn Glynn's Breaking the Rule of Silence (2011) all insist on the visibility and presence of these institutions within towns and communities. All three works foreground the necessary role of active spectatorship in commemorating this traumatic past, and in ensuring it never happens again. This active spectatorship stands in contrast to the patterns of agnosia and amnesia which maintained the system for so long. This lecture discusses the ways in which culture plays a much-needed role in the commemoration of abuse trauma. Yet culture cannot stand alone and the lecture subsequently calls for a state-led official history of Ireland's institutional past which addresses the class and gender-based operation of these institutions in a holistic system of incarceration.

2013-08-01T00:00:00Z Pine, Emilie http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6254 2014-12-19T12:03:54Z 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The Tyranny of Memory: Remembering the Great War in Frank McGuinness's Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme Pine, Emilie First produced at the Peacock Theatre in 1985, Frank McGuinness’s Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, has gone on to become an iconic First World War play, and has had several landmark productions, not least of which was when it was performed at the Abbey in 1994 to an audience of Ulster Unionists, as an acknowledgment of the Peace Process in Northern Ireland. McGuinness states that in writing Observe the Sons of Ulster 'it was an eye-opener for a Catholic Republican, as I am, to have to examine the complexity, diversity, disturbance and integrity of the other side, the Protestant people.' In this play there is thus a conscious engagement with a competing mythology, and the challenges of crossing the barrier between self and other. And this spirit of necessary but difficult exploration of self and other is the foundational ground for the play; the process that McGuinness went through in writing the play, is thus the same process that the characters go through within the play.

2010-05-01T00:00:00Z González, Arturo Jennings, David Manriquez, Loreto http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6197 2014-11-25T10:39:28Z 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Multi-faceted Impact of a Team Game Tournament on the Ability of the Learners to Engage and Develop their Own Critical Skill Set González, Arturo; Jennings, David; Manriquez, Loreto The purpose of the work presented in this paper is helping students to improve and accelerate their learning through a form of cooperative learning known as Team Game Tournament (TGT). The principle behind TGT is that the success of a team lies on the success of the individuals composing the team. TGT enhances learning via the establishment of a tournament where the class is divided into small academically balanced teams that play against each other. Facilitator's notes from visual monitoring, data from student questionnaire and exam results are collected for two structures-related modules of civil engineering stages 3 and 4 with and without TGT. Students show to be focused and participative, to develop their critical thinking and social skills and no less importantly, to enjoy the new learning format. These perceptions are confirmed by student feedback and a significant improvement in their performance at the exam. Student's learning is considerably strengthened by being held individually accountable for formulating and answering questions that contribute to the team score in a TGT style. Team mates help each other and study more than individually because they care for them and for the team.

2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Smith, Anne-Marie http://hdl.handle.net/10197/5979 2014-10-01T09:23:05Z 2014-02-12T00:00:00Z

Understanding the Relationship Between the Librarian and the Academic Smith, Anne-Marie This article presents the findings of a small study that examined the relationship between academic librarians and their academic colleagues in a number of institutions in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. There is an abundance of literature outlining how librarians should collaborate with their academic colleagues but less emphasis on what librarians are doing in practice. This research explores the collaborative aspect of this relationship with a focus on information literacy training. Research findings look at factors which encourage and inhibit collaboration and challenges librarians face in achieving successful collaboration.

2014-02-12T00:00:00Z Dalton, Michelle Pan, Rosalind http://hdl.handle.net/10197/5653 2016-03-09T15:07:42Z 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Snakes or Ladders? Evaluating a LibGuides pilot at University College Dublin Library Dalton, Michelle; Pan, Rosalind Online subject guides are commonly used by libraries to provide information support to students. LibGuides (a cloud-based commercial product launched in 2007) represent one of the latest incarnations of the traditional subject guide or portal, and are widely used across American academic libraries. In Ireland however, library subject guides of entirely local design and hosted on a local web server still dominate. This paper outlines the project management process involved in implementing a LibGuides pilot at University College Dublin Library, including the planning, design and implementation of a new range of subject-related guides. The pilot nature of the project necessitated a strong focus on evaluation, particularly in assessing the effectiveness and suitability of LibGuides as a platform for delivering information literacy support, both from an administrative and end-user perspective. A two-stranded approach was used in this review process, incorporating quantitative web statistics and analytics alongside qualitative feedback from students, academic staff and Library staff.  Feedback that was gathered suggested that the LibGuides subject guides were generally viewed very positively by both staff and students. Notwithstanding this, awareness (as indicated through usage statistics) remained moderate during the pilot, pointing to the importance of the visibility, positioning and promotion of guides. 

2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Tynan, Mark McCarney, Eoin http://hdl.handle.net/10197/5600 2015-01-16T14:16:26Z 2014-04-14T00:00:00Z

“Click here to order this book”: A case study of print and electronic patron-driven acquisition in University College Dublin Tynan, Mark; McCarney, Eoin University College Dublin became the first library in the Republic of Ireland to trial patron-driven acquisition (PDA) as a collection development tool in 2013. 42% of UCD Library’s book budget was allocated to the project, which included both electronic and print books. This paper describes the twelve month project from the tender stage, through evaluation and selection of supplier, to the final money being spent. We analyse which disciplines spent most money, and how usage of PDA titles compared to non-PDA orders placed in the same time period. Finally, we assess the impact of PDA on the library’s workflow.

2014-04-14T00:00:00Z Clarke, Danielle http://hdl.handle.net/10197/5598 2017-08-01T01:00:16Z 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

PSALMS: Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke Clarke, Danielle

2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Dalton, Michelle http://hdl.handle.net/10197/5101 2013-12-03T09:28:38Z 2013-10-01T00:00:00Z

"What Would I Tweet?": Exploring New Professionals' Attitudes Towards Twitter as a Tool for Professional Development Dalton, Michelle Twitter is a relatively common platform through which libraries can connect with their user communities. However, it also represents an innovative tool for professional development by allowing library and information sciences (LIS) professionals to communicate and share information across distance and time. Using data gathered from a workshop activity, this article explores the attitudes of new and emerging professionals towards Twitter, including barriers to usage and how these can potentially be reduced. The results indicate that some librarians are still reluctant to fully utilize it as a continuing professional development tool for a variety of reasons. Promoting strategies that specifically address these concerns may help to increase the level of engagement with Twitter by the LIS community as an innovative learning and development resource.

2013-10-01T00:00:00Z Dalton, Michelle http://hdl.handle.net/10197/4956 2013-11-20T08:50:32Z 2013-10-01T00:00:00Z

A dissemination divide? The factors that influence the journal selection decision of Library & Information Studies (LIS) researchers and practitioners Dalton, Michelle With increasing volumes of research output and the continued emergence of new publishing venues, scholarly publishing has become a crowded landscape. This study analyses the factors that influence LIS authors when selecting a journal for submission, and in particular the significance of open access (OA) options and bibliometric indicators in this decision-making process. An online questionnaire with Likert scales was used to collect and rank the preferences and attitudes of LIS professionals. As part of the analysis, two separate sub-groups were examined using inferential statistical tests to explore if the research-practice divide so often cited in the LIS literature is also replicated in journal selection. It is concluded that choosing a journal for LIS research is a complex decision for both faculty members and librarians. Whilst some commonality exists between both groups, many variables show evidence of a divide in practices and preferences in consonance with the existing research.

2013-10-01T00:00:00Z Stokes, Diarmuid http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2841 2011-10-06T14:18:42Z 2007-12-01T00:00:00Z

Focus on the Veterinary Library, University College Dublin Stokes, Diarmuid The article highlights the Veterinary Library of the University College Dublin (UCD) in Dublin, Ireland. It relates that the library is an integrated and central element in the veterinary medicine programme at the UCD and its role is a university library that facilitates the needs of students, as well as academic staff of the veterinary sciences and related disciplines. It is also mention that it is the only veterinary library in the country.

2007-12-01T00:00:00Z Derven, Caleb Kendlin, Valerie http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2840 2011-07-13T15:49:26Z 2011-03-01T00:00:00Z

Evidence-based librarianship : a case study of a print resource cancellation project Derven, Caleb; Kendlin, Valerie This article sets out the background, operation, challenges and opportunities entailed in providing access to Management Information System (MIS) data to the subject librarians to enable accurate profiling of print resource usage in a time of severe financial cutbacks in the Library of University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland's largest university. Evidence-Based Librarianship (EBL) provided the framework within which the Library could make these hard decisions as well as providing an iterative process within which decisions could be critiqued, stress tested and ultimately accepted. As the literature shows, flatter, team-based organisational structures can be linked to successful implementation of EBL processes and a discussion of a serials review between Jan 2009 and May 2009 using EBL principles is provided to illustrate the link between EBL and active, effective use of management data.

2011-03-01T00:00:00Z Doran, Antoinette http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2813 2011-10-06T14:14:21Z 2009-03-01T00:00:00Z

Edna O'Brien at the James Joyce Library Doran, Antoinette

2009-03-01T00:00:00Z Stokes, Diarmuid http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2808 2011-03-01T10:03:23Z 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Book review : Information literacy meets library 2.0 Stokes, Diarmuid

2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Dodd, Lorna http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2806 2011-03-01T09:49:24Z 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Collaboration and sustainability : integrating information literacy into enquiry and problem-based learning initiatives in UCD Dodd, Lorna

2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Patterson, Avril http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2805 2011-02-28T13:13:35Z 2009-06-01T00:00:00Z

A needs analysis for information literacy provision for research : a case study in University College Dublin Patterson, Avril The purpose of this research was to establish the baseline information literacy of incoming postgraduate research students, which in turn could inform the development of information literacy provision to support research. Evidence Based Librarianship and Information Practice (EBLIP) underpinned the methodological framework. An online survey questionnaire, information behaviour observation and a focus group formed the triangulation of methods used in data collection. Findings identified a wide variation in information literacy within and across disciplines; deficiencies in the ability to trace current and ongoing research; difficulties in the conceptualization of research questions and literal rather than lateral thought. However, it must be noted that the non probability nature of the purposive sampling for the survey questionnaire results in data which cannot be extrapolated to other populations. As this study was used to satisfy the partial requirements of an MLIS degree, the constraints of the thesis necessitated the truncation of the EBLIP process, so that the implementation steps were not included. Nevertheless, this study’s contribution to the field of enquiry lies not only in its feasibility as a practical application, but it also in the contribution it makes in an area where a research deficit has been identified (Corrall 2007; Research Information Network 2008).

2009-06-01T00:00:00Z Patterson, Avril http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2804 2011-02-28T12:51:13Z 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Linchpin or weakest link? Challenges to current document delivery practice and services Patterson, Avril Purpose: The main purpose of this paper is to generate discussion on the necessity for document delivery services to re-position themselves, thus “adding value” within the information chain. Approach: Empirical, based on working practice in a major academic library. Review article, based on practice. Originality/value: A synthesis of current practice, outlining current shortcomings, and challenges.

2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Boyle, Susan http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2787 2011-02-21T12:28:20Z 2009-08-03T00:00:00Z

Award for the best poster overall (and first-timer) : exploring and extending information literacy support with nursing and midwifery students Boyle, Susan A prime objective for liaison librarians is the development of information literacy (IL) skills programmes within school curricula. This poster illustrates the need for and the development of an embedded IL programme for undergraduate students in the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems (SNM&HS) in UCD. It explores and identifies the best route and structure for an information literacy skills programme through collaboration with staff in the school. The poster demonstrates how the programme was designed and implemented to provide appropriate, incremental support and how it engaged with students at each stage. Feedback and reflection on the highlights and challenges of engaging with the students are included. The poster also presents creative training ideas to further engage students and suggests amendments and possibilities for increasing and extending the support offering into the future.

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