http://hdl.handle.net/10197/1926 Fri, 03 Nov 2017 18:38:39 GMT 2017-11-03T18:38:39Z http://hdl.handle.net/10197/8603 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. Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10197/8603 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10197/8464 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 Wed, 24 May 2017 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10197/8464 2017-05-24T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10197/8397 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. Wed, 22 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10197/8397 2017-03-22T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10197/8396 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. Wed, 22 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10197/8396 2017-03-22T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10197/8165 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. Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10197/8165 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10197/7796 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. Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10197/7796 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10197/7682 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. Fri, 01 Jul 2016 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10197/7682 2016-07-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10197/7402 Bilingualism: Slippage of a Phoeneme or Two Williams, Nerys One in a series of poetics essays/ manifesto essays on Bilingualism. Draws on poetic practice. Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10197/7402 2012-04-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10197/7262 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. Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10197/7262 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10197/7219 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'. Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10197/7219 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10197/7181 '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. Thu, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10197/7181 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10197/7180 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. Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10197/7180 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10197/7167 Hands (after Geta Bratescu) Williams, Nerys Sun, 01 Mar 2015 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10197/7167 2015-03-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10197/7157 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. Mon, 01 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10197/7157 2011-08-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10197/7055 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. Tue, 01 Apr 2014 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10197/7055 2014-04-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6528 Britain at the Fin de Siècle Daly, Nicholas Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6528 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6491 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. Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6491 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6490 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. Wed, 01 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6490 2017-03-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6480 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. Tue, 01 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6480 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6477 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. Thu, 23 Oct 2014 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6477 2014-10-23T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6344 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. Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6344 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6335 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. Thu, 29 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6335 2015-01-29T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6257 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. Sat, 01 Feb 2014 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6257 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6256 '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. Sat, 01 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6256 2012-09-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6255 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. Thu, 01 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6255 2013-08-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6254 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. Sat, 01 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6254 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10197/5979 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. Wed, 12 Feb 2014 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10197/5979 2014-02-12T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10197/5653 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.  Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10197/5653 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10197/5600 “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. Mon, 14 Apr 2014 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10197/5600 2014-04-14T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10197/5598 PSALMS: Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke Clarke, Danielle Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10197/5598 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10197/5101 "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. Tue, 01 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10197/5101 2013-10-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10197/4956 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. Tue, 01 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10197/4956 2013-10-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2841 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. Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2841 2007-12-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2840 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. Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2840 2011-03-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2813 Edna O'Brien at the James Joyce Library Doran, Antoinette Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2813 2009-03-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2808 Book review : Information literacy meets library 2.0 Stokes, Diarmuid Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2808 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2806 Collaboration and sustainability : integrating information literacy into enquiry and problem-based learning initiatives in UCD Dodd, Lorna Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2806 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2805 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). Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2805 2009-06-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2804 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. Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2804 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2787 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. Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2787 2009-08-03T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2785 How to make your library more accessible to all users Trimble, Julie Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2785 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2783 Managing, marketing, maximising : creating an information resources development policy to further academic-library relations Kendlin, Valerie This article outlines the development of a school information resources development policy and illustrates how these policies can be used to further liaison among academic libraries, to market library resources to our users and to ensure that library purchases accurately reflect the teaching and research needs of each school. Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2783 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2780 How I became a 'liaison' librarian : a personal experience from University College Dublin Tynan, Mark Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2780 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2777 Scanning, tailoring and promoting information literacy support – another string to the liaison librarian’s bow Boyle, Susan A shift in tertiary education is acknowledged and this article discusses the implications for librarians engaged in information literacy support. The article demonstrates why liaison librarians need to scan and tailor new varieties of information skills support to match the changes in education. The importance of promoting new varieties of support services is also discussed and various measures to promote these new support offerings are proposed. Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2777 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2775 Research support through resource sharing : challenges and opportunities for Irish academic libraries Patterson, Avril Purpose – The purpose of this paper it to outline current resource-sharing initiatives in Irish academic libraries that support increased research activity in line with national policy. This paper aims to point to the challenges and opportunities such initiatives present. Design/methodology/approach – The approach takes the form of a review paper based on practice. Findings – It has been suggested that the greatest obstacle to finding library research is that librarians do not publish their research. As financial constraints impact on all publicly funded organisations it is not unreasonable to suggest that decision making will become more dependent on research evidence than previously. Economies of scale cannot justify the development of a research body such as the Research Information Network (RIN) in the UK and, while its output is relevant to higher education in Ireland, it is important to remember that its findings must be adapted and scaled to the Irish environment, and that partnerships and collaboration may result in different dynamics from those in a larger polity. It is therefore important that Irish research is documented and published, so that it helps map the information landscape which supports the research agenda and the national interest. Originality/value – The paper presents a synthesis of current practice, outlining current shortcomings and challenges. It will be of interest to all librarians concerned to learn more about resource sharing in the British Isles and in particular in the Republic of Ireland. Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2775 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2774 Resource sharing for the future : building blocks to success : a report of the 10th Interlending and Document Supply Conference, National Library Singapore, 29-31 October 2007 Patterson, Avril Purpose: To report on the 10th ILDS conference held in Singapore Approach – Descriptive Findings – That the conference was very successful and that contrary to rumours interlending and document supply is alive and well throughout the world Value – A report on the only international conference held on the subject of interlending and document supply 10th Interlending and Document Supply Conference, 29-31 October 2007, National Library Singapore, Republic of Singapore. Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2774 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2773 The future of librarianship : moving out of the library and into the faculty : how problem-based learning is transforming the traditional role Dodd, Lorna This article discusses how the trend towards new approaches in teaching and learning such as problem-based learning are radically impacting on librarians. Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2773 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2768 Laptop loans in UCD Library Dodd, Lorna; Drennan, Samantha This article describes the introduction of a new laptop loan service in University College Dublin’s Health Sciences Library. Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2768 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2767 Quizzes and tutorials : developing online strategies to support Business students in University College Dublin Tynan, Mark; Foster, Lorraine British Business Schools Librarian Group (BBSLG) Conference, July 2nd 2009, Irish Management Institute, Dublin, Ireland Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2767 2009-07-02T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2766 UCD Library – getting out there! Pan, Rosalind Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2766 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z