Due to a campus-wide email access problem, email correspondence and ATHENS accounts may not have been received on Wednesday 5th November.
If you emailed any library staff member or the library email (libinfo@wit.ie), or submitted an ATHENS request during this time, and have not heard back from the library directly, please resend your query and we [...]
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Important Notice!
Posted in library services on November 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Posted in library services on October 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“How do I find the books and journals that I need for my course?”
“How do I use the electronic journal databases?”
“Tell me about the ATHENS scheme?”
Got questions like these and more about the library?
Why not contact the Library Information Desk?
We are open throughout the day:
Mon-Thurs: 10.00-6.00 & Fri: 10.00-4.00.
Call to the desk in-person with your queries, or [...]
New look WIT Libraries online!
Posted in library services on September 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Take a moment to look through WIT Libraries’ new look Website and OPAC!
WIT Libraries are happy to unveil the new look website, which still contains all the information on our services, as well as acting as a portal to online databases and information, all available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Remember to use [...]
Reader Services Notice: Fines
Posted in library services on July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Please note, from Monday 31st August 2009, library fines for overdue items will be as follows:
Long Loan Items: €0.50 per day overdue
Short Loan Items: €1.50 per day overdue
These changes bring WIT Libraries’ fine policy in-line with other similar libraries throughout the country, and provide an incentive for all users to return their borrowed items on [...]
Exam Time at WIT Libraries
Posted in Opening Times, library services on April 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Q-ness
With exam time looming, WIT Libraries wishes all students the best of luck. Over the next few weeks, in the run-up to exam time, WIT Libraries will again run the Q-Ness Campaign.
The Q-ness campaign is our effort to actively promote a quiet study atmosphere in the quiet study areas of the library. So throughout the [...]
Q-ness
Posted in library services on November 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
WIT Libraries Launches
Quiet Study Campaign
We know, here in WIT Libraries, that with first semester exams looming, students are looking for a quiet and comfortable study environment to help prepare for crunch time. That’s why WIT Libraries are launching the Q-Ness campaign for the month of December in the lead up to the Chritmas exams.
Library Staff will [...]
COIL: New service from WIT
Posted in WITcat, library services on November 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
WIT Libraries is delighted to announce a new iniative which allows WIT students and staff to browse, request and borrow an additional 100,000 items from the library collection of the National College of Ireland.
Through a pilot partnership named COIL (Consortium of Irish Libraries), users can arrange a loan of NCI library items, and collect them [...]
WIT Donations Register
Posted in library services on October 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
WIT Libraries has launched a donations register on its website to acknowledge donations to the libraries. The register will be updated on an ongoing basis.
WIT Libraries appreciates each donation and we will take every opportunity to acknowledge the generous and continuing support of library benefactors.
If you would like to find out more about the register, [...]
WIT donates books to Tanzania
Posted in library services on October 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Over 1,000 books donated by WIT students and staff have been sent to Tanzania, Africa. These second-hand books were from across all the disciplines and will help support education in the developing world. WIT Library Service is pleased to be part of this initiative. Many thanks to David Keating (Chaplain), Anne Marie Gleeson and all those [...]
Let Me In!
Posted in Databases, library services on August 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Need a username and password to access research databases like Wiley InterScience, Science Direct or ABI/Inform?
Not sure how to access Emerald, or Business Source Premier, or CINAHL?
For most of our research databases, if you’re working on-campus, you won’t need a username and password to search for articles, citations, and other electronic content.
If you’re working from [...]
ATHENS Renewal
Posted in Databases, library services on June 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you’ve been accessing WIT Libraries’ range of online resources off-campus, then you’ve been using your ATHENS username and password.
Please note that you must now renew your ATHENS username and password for the upcoming academic year. This will grant you continued access to our range of databases and online resources if you’re doing research or [...]
Library Stocktake
Posted in Opening Times, library services on June 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
An important Notice from the Library
The Luke Wadding Library and College Street Library will both close from Monday 16th June to Friday 20th June inclusive.
This closure is to facilitate the carrying out of a stock take.
Readers can return due books to the book banks located outside the library’s main door during this week. You can [...]
“IM chatting with the Library!”
Posted in library services on April 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There are now even more ways to contact WIT Libraries!
If you need help locating a book, have a question about our online databases, need help starting your research, or any other library related questions, you can contact the Information Desk by Phone, Email or In-Person.
And now, you can also communicate instantly with a member of [...]
Inter Library Loans
Posted in library services on November 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Inter-Library Loans Office is located at Entry Level in the Luke Wadding Library. Our Inter-Library Loans service obtains items that are unavailable in WIT Libraries from other libraries with minimum possible delay. This service is available to WIT staff, students and to external borrowers by arrangement.
If you have checked the WITCat and the fulltext [...]
The Information Desk
Posted in library services on September 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Welcome to WIT Libraries.
As you begin the new term, you may find yourself with questions on how to access material or use the library. The Information Desk, located behind the Circulation Desk in the Luke Wadding library, has been set up to answer any questions you might have about the library, and to help you [...]
