Fancy a chance of winning a €100 All-For-One Voucher?

If you do, then please take the Student Services survey, which is available here. All respondents will be entered into a draw for the voucher. Our Student Services team do a fantastic job and taking the survey will help them help you.

Library survey - Thank you / Winner of the €100 HMV voucher

Thank you to all the 93 students who took the time to fill in the Library survey on the self-issue stations and congratulations to Clare Quille who won the €100 HMV voucher!
Have a lovely summer all!

Last chance to win a €100 HMV voucher!

This week is your last chance to let us know what you think about library services by filling in our online annual users survey

We'll be drawing a winner for the €100 HMV voucher the week beginning January 26th so if you want to be in with a chance to take advantage of the voucher in the HMV sales - you'd better click the link and let us know what you think.

Thanks to everyone who's already filled in the survey for your feedback and suggestions.

Searching the library catalogue - what every student NEEDS to know - PART 2

Here is the second part of our online tutorials on 'searching the DBS Library catalogue'. This part shows you how to perform advanced searches and narrow down your search to specific sites (Aungier st or Dame st) and how to search for specific material like DVD's or Dissertations.

Online survey feedback

Many thanks to everyone who filled in our online survey and gave us their feedback on the new look library website and our range of online features and resources.

Congratualtions to Louise Byrne who was the winner of the €50 HMV voucher.


The survey responses gave us some positive feedback on the new look library site, for example; 62.3% of respondents are able to easily find the information they need from the site. 43% of respondents are able to easily identify the section of the site in which the information they need is located. Your preferred online library features are; the Library catalogue, electronic resources (databases), Webfeat (search all resources) and the AZ journal list.

We also got some good (as well as some strange and some utterly incomprehensible) suggestions for online features you'd like the library to provide. Here are just some of them with details of whether they are feasible or not, in some cases the suggested feature is already in place;

• Exam papers online - Exam papers are now available on Moodle (at least the last 2 years should be up for each module). Just log in to Moodle and go to the exams section then select the approproate department (Arts, Business or professional)
• Book reviews - Members of library staff write reviews of recently acquired material and add these to the library's monthly newsletter which you can find under 'library information/library news'.
  
• Booking study rooms & computers online - We hope to add timetabling software to the website in the new year.
• Ask a librarian instant messaging - We aim to set up instant messaging enquiries in the new year
  

And the two best suggestions...

• Access to JSTOR - We have been working to arrange access to JSTOR for some time and it is added to our budget for next year so (fingers crossed) we should have it in place early next year
• One password to access all resources - We have been busy battling with all our electronic resource providers lately to grant access to all our resources off campus via the 'search all resources' function using your student number and date of birth. Handy as this is, our long term aim is to have 'one ring to rule them all ' and enable student access to ALL our resources (PC's, databases, ebooks, library catalogue) using a single login. We are making steps towards bringing in institutional access to all resources using Shibboleth. This is a long term project involving the IT department and the library and we hope to roll this out as soon as logistically possible.
  

Last chance to win a €50 HMV voucher!

Just a reminder that if you haven't already filled in our online questionnaire with your feedback on and suggestions for the new library website you'd better do so before the end of this week to be in with a chance to win a €50 HMV voucher.

Just click on the link on the main page or CLICK HERE

The winner will be announced next week

Tell us what you think - and you might win a €50 HMV voucher!

Remember to have your say on the new library website by filling in the online survey on the home page and you could be in with a chance of winning a €50 HMV voucher.

We'll use the comments and suggestions you give us to inform future development of the library's online presence...so what are you waiting for - tell us what you think!