Happy New Year everyone and welcome to Semester 2!
We hope you had a happy and restful break and we're looking forward to seeing you all back in the library.
It was a busy first semester at the Library. We welcomed new members to our team: our Head Librarian, Soizic Nison and two part time Library Assistants, Ellen Stretton and Greta Povilaityte. We added lots of new resources to our collections including the Kanopy film streaming database, and we were pleased to see the first TUS academic paper added to the Institutional Repository. Read on to find out more...
We would like to extend a warm welcome to Soizic Nison who is the new Head Librarian of TUS Libraries Midwest.
Soizic comes from Brittany, France, where she was the Head Librarian of a Technological University before coming to TUS.
She likes to travel and has worked in many countries throughout Europe and Africa. She has visited Ireland many times in the past and even cycled the West coast from Clare to Mayo on one of her trips.
She welcomes the challenge of working in TUS as it moves from LIT to a Technological University: "I believe there will be many positive outcomes for the students because they will have access to a wider range of resources and services", she said.
The first academic paper from TUS Midwest was added to the Institutional Repository, as part of Open Access Week.
An academic paper from Dr Frank Houghton, the inaugural Director of the Social Sciences ConneXions Research Institute at TUS has now been added to the Institutional Repository.
According to Deputy Librarian, Sarah Landy, "the TUS Institutional Repository is a critical component of our developing TUS research infrastructure. It facilitates our ambitious agenda in Open Research and in turn the National Open Access Agenda".
TUS Midwest staff & students can now email repository@lit.ie to get their papers, posters, etc, available as Open Access.
with Ellen & Greta
We'd like to extend our congratulations to a former student and regular visitor to our Clonmel Campus Library, Jagoda Biarda who was recognised with a special Student of the Year award at the recent conferring ceremonies.
Jagoda Biarda completed the level 8 Honours Bachelor's Degree in Digital Animation Production at Clonmel Campus and received the TUS President’s Student of Year Award for achieving the highest GPA across all the School of Art and Design. What a fantastic achievement!
The Library has purchased a Kanopy subscription. TUS staff and students now have access to this video streaming platform free of charge.
Find movies, documentaries, foreign films, classic cinema, independent films and educational videos on a wide range of topics to help you with your coursework, and for leisure too!
TUS Midwest staff & students can access Kanopy here.
Green, the colour of life, is associated with nature and relaxation. It is a colour that promotes health, harmony, and healing. Green is such a generous colour. Seeing it can revitalise our minds and bodies. What better colour than green, then, to choose for new labels for the Library Fiction Collection! Check out the range of American, English and Irish fiction at the Library Entrance. Happy Reading...
Nora Hegarty
The weekly online training sessions continue in January. Learn about library databases and online resources, get referencing help, find out how to use Mendeley Reference Manager, and more. Click here to see the schedule and to book a place.
Subject Guides will help you to find the best resources for your area of study. The recently published Law Guide includes information on a wide range of resources including books, theses, videos and more related to various areas of Law. View it here.
Guide created by: Joe Dooley, Thurles Library
You can browse our full list of study skills and subject guides by clicking here.
Welcome to Cooper’s Chase, an upmarket retirement village near the fictitious town of Fairhaven in Kent. Meet some of the residents - Elizabeth, Ibrahim, Joyce and Ron - otherwise known as The Thursday Murder Club. Join them on their bid to solve not one but two or is it even three murders?
Be prepared for a series of heavy-duty topics (our protagonists are all pushing 80, after all) but be pleased that these are dealt with in a light-hearted fashion. Keep the pace – there are any number of characters between these pages and lots of twists and turns along the way. The snappy dialogue is particularly good and Joyce’s journal entries are priceless.
What more can I say? This is a rip-roaring read that will keep you on your toes. Hold onto your hats and enjoy the ride!
Review by: Nora Hegarty, Moylish Library
‘The Family Upstairs’ by Lisa Jewell is a psychological thriller that you will struggle to put down once you get into it.
The book begins with Libby Jones, a 25-year-old kitchen designer, inheriting a London mansion worth millions that has a very mysterious and creepy past. Somehow Libby must figure out how herself, three families, four lost teenagers, an unidentified baby, and four murdered adults are all connected to her new house. The book has three main characters, multiple storylines, twists and turns, and if that wasn’t enough it also features a cult. This book will make you question who you should let into your home.
Overall is the perfect book to take on holiday or read during a rainy weekend. If you are looking for more books like this one, it has a sequel called ‘The Family Remains’.
Review by: Aisling Slevin, Thurles Library
With thanks to:
Nora Hegarty for proofreading
& Alex Cox for the cover art
The Library, Technological University of the Shannon: Midwest
