Here are the new books in the library this month:
Computing
Social sciences
Languages
Science
Business
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Monday, March 22, 2010
Humanities Week at ITB
Welcome to Humanities Week at ITB Library!
This is the perfect week for you to ask any questions about the library or how to find information in the library...
How do I renew my library books? How do I find information online? How do I write a citation? What resources does the library have for my subject area? How do I use the databases at home? How do I book a PC? How do I know whether a book is available in the library? How do I reserve a book for myself?
Whatever your question - visit the library this week. You can browse the information leaflets or speak to us at the Circulation Desk...
This is the perfect week for you to ask any questions about the library or how to find information in the library...
How do I renew my library books? How do I find information online? How do I write a citation? What resources does the library have for my subject area? How do I use the databases at home? How do I book a PC? How do I know whether a book is available in the library? How do I reserve a book for myself?
Whatever your question - visit the library this week. You can browse the information leaflets or speak to us at the Circulation Desk...
Monday, March 15, 2010
Beannachtaí na Féile!
Find a great read at the end of the rainbow this St Patrick's Day...
Irish: a complete course for beginners by Diarmuid Ó Sé
Hard tackles and dirty baths by George Best
No laughing matter by Flann O'Brien
Breakfast on Pluto by Patrick McCabe
An unconsidered people: the Irish in London by Catherine Dunne
The secret world of the Irish male by Joseph O'Connor
Four letters of love by Niall Williams
Sushi for beginners by Marian Keyes
A poet's country: selected prose by Patrick Kavanagh
Irish: a complete course for beginners by Diarmuid Ó Sé
Hard tackles and dirty baths by George Best
No laughing matter by Flann O'Brien
Breakfast on Pluto by Patrick McCabe
An unconsidered people: the Irish in London by Catherine Dunne
The secret world of the Irish male by Joseph O'Connor
Four letters of love by Niall Williams
Sushi for beginners by Marian Keyes
A poet's country: selected prose by Patrick Kavanagh
Check out the library noticeboard and bookstand for more great suggestions!
Friday, March 12, 2010
Friday's winners
Easter egg raffleNora Kerr won Friday's easter egg for using the self issue.
Treasure hunt
Wednesday's print credit was won by Michelle Prendergast.
Congrats to all our winners this week!
Friday's treasure hunt
Find the golden ticket in the following book....
a biography of a famous Leinster rugby player
Be the first person to bring the ticket hidden in this book to the library desk - and you will win €5 print credit. Good luck!
UPDATE: TODAY'S GOLDEN TICKET HAS NOW BEEN FOUND. CHECK BACK HERE TOMORROW FOR ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY TO WIN.
UPDATE: TODAY'S GOLDEN TICKET HAS NOW BEEN FOUND. CHECK BACK HERE TOMORROW FOR ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY TO WIN.
Thursday's winners
Easter egg raffleRebecca Fitzgerald won Monday's easter egg for using the self issue.
You can enter any of the daily raffles this week by using the self-issue too.
Treasure hunt
Nobody claimed the print credit yesterday.
Keep an eye on this blog everyday this week to win €5 print credit.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Friday: what will you read about today
A fork in the road
“Darwin ‘basically spent his years at Cambridge gambling with his wealthy friends. His father was so annoyed at one point he said he would only be good at hunting and rat-catching and he would disgrace his family’. Darwin himself would not have quarrelled with that judgement. He abandoned plans made for him first to become a doctor like his father, then to be a clergyman. Perhaps he would have continued in this rather aimless way were it not for the opportunity, which he seized aged twenty-two, to travel around the world on board the Beagle. It is significant, though, that the seemingly aimless young Darwin suddenly saw an opportunity he wanted quiet violently. Yet his famous voyage almost failed to happen – what a world might have changed there. Captain Robert FitzRoy, who was looking for a naturalist to join him on his nautical survey expedition, was not keen on the young man who presented himself. FitzRoy was a great believer in physiognomy and he thought the shape of Darwin’s nose made him a rather disreputable character. Darwin persuaded him otherwise.”
Read more at:
On giants’ shoulders by Melvyn Bragg
Shelved in the Main Shelves on level 2: 509.22 BRA
“Darwin ‘basically spent his years at Cambridge gambling with his wealthy friends. His father was so annoyed at one point he said he would only be good at hunting and rat-catching and he would disgrace his family’. Darwin himself would not have quarrelled with that judgement. He abandoned plans made for him first to become a doctor like his father, then to be a clergyman. Perhaps he would have continued in this rather aimless way were it not for the opportunity, which he seized aged twenty-two, to travel around the world on board the Beagle. It is significant, though, that the seemingly aimless young Darwin suddenly saw an opportunity he wanted quiet violently. Yet his famous voyage almost failed to happen – what a world might have changed there. Captain Robert FitzRoy, who was looking for a naturalist to join him on his nautical survey expedition, was not keen on the young man who presented himself. FitzRoy was a great believer in physiognomy and he thought the shape of Darwin’s nose made him a rather disreputable character. Darwin persuaded him otherwise.”
Read more at:
On giants’ shoulders by Melvyn Bragg
Shelved in the Main Shelves on level 2: 509.22 BRA
The death of distance
The next quarter century will see the fastest technological change the world has ever known. How will that affect our lives? In general, as Arthur C. Clarke once pointed out, people exaggerate the short-run impacts of technological change and underestimate the long-term impacts. Really big technological changes permeate our homes, our personal relations, our daily habits, the way we think and speak. Consider the links between the automobile and crime, or between electricity and the skyscraper, or between television and social life. Each of these technological advances had consequences that nobody could have foreseen when they were new. The revolution in communications will have consequences that are just as pervasive, intimate and surprising.
Read more at:
The next quarter century will see the fastest technological change the world has ever known. How will that affect our lives? In general, as Arthur C. Clarke once pointed out, people exaggerate the short-run impacts of technological change and underestimate the long-term impacts. Really big technological changes permeate our homes, our personal relations, our daily habits, the way we think and speak. Consider the links between the automobile and crime, or between electricity and the skyscraper, or between television and social life. Each of these technological advances had consequences that nobody could have foreseen when they were new. The revolution in communications will have consequences that are just as pervasive, intimate and surprising.
Read more at:
The death of distance: how the communications revolution will change our lives by Frances Cairncross
Shelved in the Main Shelves on level 2: 303.4833 CAI
Thursday's treasure hunt
Find the golden ticket in the following library resource....
a video about the planets
a video about the planets
Be the first person to bring the ticket hidden in this book to the library desk - and you will win €5 print credit. Good luck!
Wednesday's winners
Easter egg raffleEmma Leddy won Wednesday's easter egg for using the self issue.You can enter any of the daily raffles this week by using the self-issue too.
Treasure hunt
Wednesday's print credit was won by David Farrell. Keep an eye on this blog everyday this week to win €5 print credit.
Thursday: what will you read about today
Visit the Gauj
as National Park ?
The Gauja River carves its way through about 40km of hills of Devonian sandstone, as it winds its way from Valmiera to Sigulda, leaving behind a surrealistic tangle of carved hills and forest-covered banks. Established in 1973 specifically to protect the indigenous flora and fauna , this park is simply the most beautiful in all of Latvia.
See:
Riga by A. Burgess & T. Burgess
Shelved in the Travel Section on Level 1 : 914.796
as National Park ?The Gauja River carves its way through about 40km of hills of Devonian sandstone, as it winds its way from Valmiera to Sigulda, leaving behind a surrealistic tangle of carved hills and forest-covered banks. Established in 1973 specifically to protect the indigenous flora and fauna , this park is simply the most beautiful in all of Latvia.
See:
Riga by A. Burgess & T. Burgess
Shelved in the Travel Section on Level 1 : 914.796
Where is Stone Town?
Stone Town is t
he most common name for the old heart of Zanzibar Town, a small triangular peninsula first settled by the Portuguese in 1560. Make sure you are there for sunset. As the sea turns to gold and billowing dhows creep back to the shore... select your food – anything from crab to kebab and salad – from one of the many stalls and settle down to watch the world go by...
See:
Tanzania & Zanzibar (Insight Guides)
Shelved in the Travel section on level 1: 916.78
Stone Town is t
he most common name for the old heart of Zanzibar Town, a small triangular peninsula first settled by the Portuguese in 1560. Make sure you are there for sunset. As the sea turns to gold and billowing dhows creep back to the shore... select your food – anything from crab to kebab and salad – from one of the many stalls and settle down to watch the world go by...See:
Tanzania & Zanzibar (Insight Guides)
Shelved in the Travel section on level 1: 916.78
Shopping at Feira de San Telmo?
Tourists an
d locals flock alike to this wonderful feira = you’ll find antique glass soda bottles, jewelry, guacho items, artwork of all sorts and old money. Around the edges of the plaza are sidewalk cafés full of basking portenos and porteno wannabes. Buskers, mimes and tango dancers keep the fun going all day long.
See:
Buenos Aires (Lonely Planet)
Shelved in the Travel section on level 1: 918.2110464
Tourists an
d locals flock alike to this wonderful feira = you’ll find antique glass soda bottles, jewelry, guacho items, artwork of all sorts and old money. Around the edges of the plaza are sidewalk cafés full of basking portenos and porteno wannabes. Buskers, mimes and tango dancers keep the fun going all day long.See:
Buenos Aires (Lonely Planet)
Shelved in the Travel section on level 1: 918.2110464
Visit Wieliczka?
The ancient salt mine of Wieliczka predates the Polish state itself and opened as a museum in 1950. Approximately 200km of tunnels and corridors stretch out in a vast web underneath the town. The highlights, as you wander the long galleries, are the chambers containing underground chapels. Everything is made of salt – the altars, candlesticks, columns and pulpits, even the figures of the saints.
See:
Kraków (Blue Guide)
Shelved in the Travel section on level 1: 914.3860457
The ancient salt mine of Wieliczka predates the Polish state itself and opened as a museum in 1950. Approximately 200km of tunnels and corridors stretch out in a vast web underneath the town. The highlights, as you wander the long galleries, are the chambers containing underground chapels. Everything is made of salt – the altars, candlesticks, columns and pulpits, even the figures of the saints.
See:
Kraków (Blue Guide)
Shelved in the Travel section on level 1: 914.3860457
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Wednesday's treasure hunt
Find the golden ticket in the following library book....
a novel you might read "on the road"
a novel you might read "on the road"
Be the first person to bring the ticket hidden in this book to the library desk - and you will win €5 print credit. Good luck!
UPDATE: TODAY'S GOLDEN TICKET HAS NOW BEEN FOUND. CHECK BACK HERE TOMORROW FOR ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY TO WIN.
Wednesday: what will you read about today
The first people of Ireland...“A thousand years ago, Ireland was an economic hub, through which passed people and goods flowing from Scandinavia into western Europe and towards Africa, and it made Dublin a town of dizzying importance. That it was a town at all was something of a novelty in a country of monastic settlements and scattered farmsteads. Settlements in Ireland were spaced out and extended families often lived in forts. There were promontory forts, built on land jutting out over the sea, so clearly easier to defend, and there were the more common circular ringfort farmsteads, which were surrounded by a bank of earth and sometimes stones to make for better defence against raiders and against wild animals, such as wolves...
The ringforts would occasionally have been accompanied by souterrains, man-made caves. Their construction was sometimes simple, involving a tunnelling of the clay or soft rock. But they could also be quite ingenious, such as those dug into the raised parts of the ringforts and which often sprouted off into separate hallways and chambers. A really impressive example at Donaghmore, near Dundalk, Co Louth runs for a total of about 70m, contains about 5 passages at a couple of levels, and had ventilation shafts designed into walls that still hold their shape despite it being maybe a thousand years or more since the tunnel was first dug.”
Read more at:
The Irish (& other foreigners): from the first people to the Poles by Shane Hegarty
Shelved in the Main Shelves on level 2: 941.5 HEG
Why learning is not all in your head...
“What we call the ‘terrible twos’ behaviour is simply the child’s exaggeration of our movements and emot
ions to gain a full sensory-motor understanding of them. The child is intrigued by the physical sensations of these new-found emotions, and great theatrics often occur. We may label these outbursts as temper tantrums, when they are simply emotional, physical, multisensory learning activities. Expression through movement is very important to the learning of emotions. At this age the child has no cognitive or manipulative thought directing the emotion. They simply become the emotion! “Read more at:
Smart moves: why learning is not all in your head by Carla Hannaford
Shelved in the Main Shelves on level 2: 612 HAN
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Tuesday's treasure hunt
Find the golden ticket in the following library book....
an Italian dictionary
Be the first person to bring the ticket hidden in this book to the library desk - and you will win €5 print credit. Good luck!
UPDATE: TODAY'S GOLDEN TICKET HAS NOW BEEN FOUND. CHECK BACK HERE TOMORROW FOR ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY TO WIN.
UPDATE: TODAY'S GOLDEN TICKET HAS NOW BEEN FOUND. CHECK BACK HERE TOMORROW FOR ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY TO WIN.
Monday's winners!
Easter egg raffle
Joanna O'Connell won Monday's easter egg for using the self issue.
You can enter any of the daily raffles this week by using the self-issue too.
Treasure hunt
Nobody claimed the print credit yesterday!
Keep an eye on this blog everyday this week to win €5 print credit.
Joanna O'Connell won Monday's easter egg for using the self issue.
You can enter any of the daily raffles this week by using the self-issue too.
Treasure hunt
Nobody claimed the print credit yesterday!
Keep an eye on this blog everyday this week to win €5 print credit.
Tuesday: what will you read about today
"Welcome. And congratulations. I am delighted that you could make it. Getting here wasn’t easy, I know. In fact, I suspect it was a little tougher than you realize. To begin with, for you to be here now trillions of drifting atoms had somehow to assemble in an intricate and curiously obliging manner to create you. It’s an arrangement so specialized and particular that it has never been tri
ed before and will only exist this once. For the next many years (we hope) these tiny particles will uncomplainingly engage in all the billions of deft, co-operative efforts necessary to keep you intact and let you experience the supremely agreeable but generally underappreciated state known as existence.
Why atoms take this trouble is a bit of a puzzle. Being you is not a gratifying experience at the atomic level. For all their devoted attention, your atoms don’t actually care about you – indeed, don’t even know that you are there. They don’t even know that they are there. They are mindless particles, after all, and not even themselves alive. (It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself a part with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you). Yet somehow for the period of your existence they will answer to a single rigid impulse: to keep you you."
ed before and will only exist this once. For the next many years (we hope) these tiny particles will uncomplainingly engage in all the billions of deft, co-operative efforts necessary to keep you intact and let you experience the supremely agreeable but generally underappreciated state known as existence.Why atoms take this trouble is a bit of a puzzle. Being you is not a gratifying experience at the atomic level. For all their devoted attention, your atoms don’t actually care about you – indeed, don’t even know that you are there. They don’t even know that they are there. They are mindless particles, after all, and not even themselves alive. (It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself a part with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you). Yet somehow for the period of your existence they will answer to a single rigid impulse: to keep you you."
Read more at:
A short history of nearly everything by Bill Bryson
Shelved in the Main Shelves on level 2: 500 BRY
A short history of nearly everything by Bill Bryson
Shelved in the Main Shelves on level 2: 500 BRY
How do you survive if you find yourself adrift in the water without a visible shoreline?
1. Keep swimming to stay awake
2. Cross your arms and ankles and draw your knees up to your chest as you drift
3. Remove your shoes and outer layers of clothing as you drift
1. Keep swimming to stay awake
2. Cross your arms and ankles and draw your knees up to your chest as you drift
3. Remove your shoes and outer layers of clothing as you drift
Find out at:
The grab bag book: your ultimate guide to liferaft survival by F. Howorth and M. Howorth
Shelved in the Leisure and Hobbies section on level 1: 613.69 HOW
The grab bag book: your ultimate guide to liferaft survival by F. Howorth and M. Howorth
Shelved in the Leisure and Hobbies section on level 1: 613.69 HOW
When you are old
When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;
How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;
And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.
~ W.B. Yeats
When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;
How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;
And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.
~ W.B. Yeats
Read more at:
Classic favourite poems edited by Charles Osborne
Shelved in the Main Shelves on level 2: 821.008 OSB
Monday, March 8, 2010
Monday: library treasure hunt
Find the golden ticket in the following book....
a biography of a famous Leinster rugby player
Be the first person to bring the ticket hidden in this book to the library desk - and you will win €5 print credit. Good luck!
Monday: what will you read about today
Which Irish International Soccer Player said the following...
“I had a great seat on my first visit to Croke Park, on my father’s shoulder, for the 1963 All-Ireland football final between Dublin and Galway and Dublin won. I was seven years of age at the time and five years later I played my first game there and we won as well. It was only when I looked at the place from the pitch that I realised how huge it was with the stands towering over us... The experience of playing major games in Croke Park was a big help to me in my soccer career – I never ‘froze’ in other big places as a result.”
Read more at:
Croke Park: a history by Tim Carey
Shelved in the Leisure and Hobbies section on level 1: 796.068415 CAR
How can you use colour to create mood in your photographs?
One of the most elusive qualities to capture on film is that of mood or atmosphere. With modern cameras and film, subjects are recorded with considerable clarity and detail, and this can easily diminish the sense of mood in an image. While lighting and tonal range of a scene will have a considerable effect on this aspect of a photograph, colour is perhaps the most significant element. We respond emotionally to colour. Though it may sound clichéd, blues and greens really do evoke a peaceful and relaxed atmosphere, while orange and yellow create a cosy and inviting mood. Bright saturated colours suggest an upbeat and lively atmosphere and dark muted colours produce a more sombre and more introspective response.
Read more at:
100 ways to take better photographs by Michael Busselle
Shelved in the Leisure and Hobbies section on level 1: 771 BRU
In the blink of an eye
“Wilson says that we toggle back and forth between our conscious and unconscious modes of thinking, depending on the situation. A decision to invite a co-worker over for dinner is conscious. You think it over. You decide it will be fun. You ask him or her. The spontaneous decision to argue with that same co-worker is made unconsciously – by a different part of the brain and motivated by a different part of your personality.
Whenever we meet someone for the first time, whenever we interview someone for a job, whenever we react to a new idea, whenever we’re faced with making a decision quickly and under stress, we use that second part of our brain. How long, for example, did it take you to decide how good a teacher your professor was? A class? Two classes? A semester? The psychologise Nalini Ambady once gave students three ten-second videotapes of a teacher – with the sound turned off – and found they had no difficulty coming up with a rating of the teacher’s effectiveness. Then Ambady cut the clips back to five seconds, and the ratings were the same. They were remarkably consistent even when she showed the students just two seconds of videotape. Then Ambady compared those snap judgements of teacher effectiveness with evaluations of those same professors made by their students after a full semester of classes, and she found that they were essentially the same. A person watching a silent two-second video clip of a teacher he or she has never met will reach conclusions about how good that teacher is that are very similar to those of a student who has sat in the teacher’s class for an entire semester. That’s the power of our adaptive unconscious.”
Read more at:
Blink: the power of thinking without thinking by Malcom Gladwell
Shelved in the Main Shelves on level 2: 153.44 GLA
“I had a great seat on my first visit to Croke Park, on my father’s shoulder, for the 1963 All-Ireland football final between Dublin and Galway and Dublin won. I was seven years of age at the time and five years later I played my first game there and we won as well. It was only when I looked at the place from the pitch that I realised how huge it was with the stands towering over us... The experience of playing major games in Croke Park was a big help to me in my soccer career – I never ‘froze’ in other big places as a result.”
Read more at:
Croke Park: a history by Tim Carey
Shelved in the Leisure and Hobbies section on level 1: 796.068415 CAR
How can you use colour to create mood in your photographs?
One of the most elusive qualities to capture on film is that of mood or atmosphere. With modern cameras and film, subjects are recorded with considerable clarity and detail, and this can easily diminish the sense of mood in an image. While lighting and tonal range of a scene will have a considerable effect on this aspect of a photograph, colour is perhaps the most significant element. We respond emotionally to colour. Though it may sound clichéd, blues and greens really do evoke a peaceful and relaxed atmosphere, while orange and yellow create a cosy and inviting mood. Bright saturated colours suggest an upbeat and lively atmosphere and dark muted colours produce a more sombre and more introspective response.
Read more at:
100 ways to take better photographs by Michael Busselle
Shelved in the Leisure and Hobbies section on level 1: 771 BRU
In the blink of an eye
“Wilson says that we toggle back and forth between our conscious and unconscious modes of thinking, depending on the situation. A decision to invite a co-worker over for dinner is conscious. You think it over. You decide it will be fun. You ask him or her. The spontaneous decision to argue with that same co-worker is made unconsciously – by a different part of the brain and motivated by a different part of your personality.
Whenever we meet someone for the first time, whenever we interview someone for a job, whenever we react to a new idea, whenever we’re faced with making a decision quickly and under stress, we use that second part of our brain. How long, for example, did it take you to decide how good a teacher your professor was? A class? Two classes? A semester? The psychologise Nalini Ambady once gave students three ten-second videotapes of a teacher – with the sound turned off – and found they had no difficulty coming up with a rating of the teacher’s effectiveness. Then Ambady cut the clips back to five seconds, and the ratings were the same. They were remarkably consistent even when she showed the students just two seconds of videotape. Then Ambady compared those snap judgements of teacher effectiveness with evaluations of those same professors made by their students after a full semester of classes, and she found that they were essentially the same. A person watching a silent two-second video clip of a teacher he or she has never met will reach conclusions about how good that teacher is that are very similar to those of a student who has sat in the teacher’s class for an entire semester. That’s the power of our adaptive unconscious.”
Read more at:
Blink: the power of thinking without thinking by Malcom Gladwell
Shelved in the Main Shelves on level 2: 153.44 GLA
Friday, March 5, 2010
Library Ireland Week 2010
Library Ireland Week starts on Monday 8th March. We hope you will celebrate with us.
Do you know 
how to use the self-issue machine in the library? Try it out this week and you wont just skip the queue at the circulation desk, you will also be in with a chance to win an Easter Egg. There is an easter egg to be won each day - just use the self issue machine to enter!
Bring a book, buy a book continues until Wed 10th. Remember to bring in any unwanted books you would like to donate. Or buy one of the donated books for just €2.
See what other events are happening in Dublin this Library Ireland Week. Check out the main noticeboard for activities as varied as making your own musical instrument, viewing short films and researching your family tree.
And finally, check us out for news of the library treasure hunt. Print credit will be hidden in a different library book each day – keep an eye on this blog for hints!
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Bring a Book, Buy a Book
Don't forget to call into the library and check out the books we have for sale for St. Michael's House. All books and tote bags are just €2 each.
There is still time to donate any unwanted books.
The sale starts from today!
There is still time to donate any unwanted books.
The sale starts from today!
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