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Are you struggling to find information for your assignments? Need help with your dissertation? Do not know where to begin? Just cannot cope with referencing? Why not come to a drop-in clinic?

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The AIT Goldsmith library is delighted to announce the introduction of SUMMON.You can now access the online Library resources with a single search.The Library has launched a new service that allows students and staff to quickly search and locate online Library resources in the same way they search the open Web. The Summon™ service, found on the Library homepage, permits you to search the Library’

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Christmas Opening HoursMain Library Mon 13th Dec-9.15am-9.45pmTues 14th Dec-9.15am-9.45pmWed 15th Dec-9.15am-9.00pmThurs 16th Dec-9.15am-9.00pmFriday 17th Dec-9.15am-5pmMon 20th Dec-9.15am-5pmTues 21st Dec-9.15am-5pmWed 22nd Dec-9.15am-12.30pmThursday 23rd Dec-Tuesday 4th Jan-ClosedWed 5th Jan-9.15am-5pmThurs 6th Jan-9.15am-5pmFri 7th Jan-9.15am-5pmNormal opening hours will recommence on Mon the

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The library will close at 4pm today Wednesday the 1st of December due to adverse weather conditions

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Book of the MonthDecember

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Opening HoursSemester 1 2010 Mon-Thurs: 9.15am-9.45pmFri: 9.15am-5pmSat: 9.15am-4pm (from 9th Oct)

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Book of the MonthOctoberThe Twin is an ode to the platteland, the flat Dutch countryside with its ditches and its cows and its endless grey skies. Ostensibly a novel about the countryside, as seen through the eyes of a farmer, The Twin is, in the end, about the possibility or impossibility of taking life into one’s own hands. It chronicles a way of life which has resisted modernity, is culturally

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Gov’t loses case for citing Wikipedia - INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos

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Book of the MonthSeptemberGhost Light by Joseph O’Connor is a moving tale of the relationship between playwright John Millington Synge and the actress Molly Allgood. A story of love’s commitment, of partings and reconciliations, of the courage involved in living on nobody else’s terms.Copies available to borrow from the Goldsmith library

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Summer Opening Hours-Main Library8th June-27th AugustMon-Fri: 9.15am-4pm Please note that the library will close from the 21st of June to the 2nd of July for a 3 yearly stocktake

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Book of the Month June This intriguing novel delves into the lives of two women who unknown to each other are tied by a bond. The Hand That First Held Mine provides an insightful look into the way we make and unmake our lives, who we know ourselves to be, and how even our most accidental legacies connect us.

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Summer Opening Hours 14th of May-2nd of JulyMon-Fri: 9.15am-5pm5th July-27th AugustMon-Fri: 9.15am-4pm

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Book of the Month-MayIt is August, 1974, and a tightrope walker is running, dancing, leaping between the twin towers, suspended a quarter-mile in the sky. In the streets below, ordinary lives become extraordinary as award-winning novelist Colum McCann crafts this stunningly realised portrait of New York and its people.2009 National Book WinnerColum McCann appears on RTE Arts Lives Tues the 4th of

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Book of the Month-April Wolf Hall explores the intersection of individual psychology and wider politics. With a vast array of characters, and richly overflowing with incident, it peels back history to show us Tudor England on the cusp of change.Man Booker winner-2009Copies available to borrow from the Goldsmith Library

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Easter Opening HoursSat 27th Mar-ClosedMon 29th Mar-9.15am-5pmTues 30th Mar-9.15am-5pmWed 31st Mar-9.15am-5pmThurs 1st April-9.15am-12.30pmFri 2nd April-ClosedSat 3rd April-ClosedMon 5th April-ClosedTues 6th April-ClosedWed 7th April-9.15am-5pmThurs 8th April-9.15am-5pmFri 9th April-9.15am-5pmSat 10th April-Closed

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St. Patricks Day Closure Notice Please note that the library will be closed on Wed the 17th of March for the St. Patricks Day bank holiday

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Book of the MonthMarchLove and summer is a beautiful meditation on love, belonging and the impossibility of escape. Trevor evokes the passions and frustrations felt by the people of a small Irish town during one long summer.Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2009Copies available to borrow from the Goldsmith Library

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Library Ireland Week Event 2010 The Goldsmith Library invites students and staff to a reading with Irish Times columnist Fintan O’Toole from his latest book Ship of Fools on Wednesday the 3rd of March at 12pm. Ship of Fools is a passionate story of the recent reversal in Ireland’s economic fortunes.Copies available to purchase for author signing on the day.

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Christmas Opening Hours Thurs 17th Dec-9.15am-5pmFri 18th Dec-9.15am-5pmSat 19th Dec-ClosedMon 21st Dec-9.15am-5pmTues 22nd Dec-9.15am-1pmWed 23rd Dec-Mon 4th of Jan-ClosedTues 5th of Jan-9.15am-1 & 2-5pmWed 6th of Jan-9.15am-1pm & 2-5pmThurs 7th of Jan-9.15am-1pm & 2-5pmFri 8th of Jan-9.15am-1pm & 2-5pm

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Midterm Opening Hours Thurs 22nd Oct-9.15am-5pmFri 23rd Oct-9.15am-5pmSat 24th Oct-ClosedMon 26th Oct-ClosedTues 27th Oct-9.15am-5pmWed 28th Oct-9.15am-5pmThurs 29th Oct-9.15am-5pmFri 30th Oct-9.15am-5pmSat 31st Oct-Closed

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Goldsmith Library-Lecture SeriesGerry StembridgeGerry Stembridge is most famous for his role in the Irish radio comedy programme Scrap Saturday. His film career includes the screenplay for Ordinary Decent Criminal, Nora and About Adam. He has recently authored a number of books including According to Luke and Counting Down.The author will visit the Goldsmith library on Thursday the 5th of

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A beautifully written, insightful, and devastating first novel, Man Gone Down is about a young African American father in a bi-racial marriage trying to claim a piece of the American Dream.Winner of Dublin IMPAC Award 2009Copies available to borrow from Goldsmith Library

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The following legal databases are currently on trial through the library webpageMurdoch’s Irish legal companion – until 12th October, 2009.http://milcnet.lendac.ieUsername: lendacP/W: 9yyb8y (until 4/10)P/W: ksjq7q (until 11/10)LexisNexis Irish Reports until 11th October, 2009.Trial ID: TRIALUKMUM5L23X5Your password is: i7q7j6By logging onto http://www.lexisnexis.com/uk/legal and entering your

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Mon-Fri: 9.15-4pmSat: Closed Extended opening hours will commence again in September

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The book unfolds as a monologue that Changez delivers to a mysterious American operative over dinner at a Lahore cafe. The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a cleverly constructed story of disenchantment with America and of mutual prejudice and misrepresentation.Copies available to borrow from Goldsmith libraryShortlisted for IMPAC Award June 2009Shortlisted for Booker prize 2007

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Book of the MonthAdamson's compelling debut novel tells the wintry tale of 19-year-old Mary Boulton and her frantic odyssey across Idaho and Montana in 1903. The details of Boulton's sad past slowly emerge as she reluctantly ventures into the mountains, struggling to put distance between herself and her two brothers-in-law, who track her like prey in retaliation for her killing of their kin. As

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Book of the MonthMarchSteve Toltz's debut novel, A Fraction of the Whole, takes the form of Martin Dean's confession of his failures and hopes to his son, Jasper. It’s a story that takes them from the Australian bush to the cafes of Paris, from the Thai jungle, asylums, labyrinths and criminal lairs, and from the highs of first love to the lows of failed ambition.Short listed for the Man Booker

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In The Road Home, Tremain tells the story of Lev, an Eastern European migrant worker who has left his village and travelled to England so that he can finance a better life for his mother and daughter. The book takes a compassionate look at Lev's experiences as an Eastern European worker in Contemporary Britain.Winner of Orange Prize for fiction 2008Long listed for Impac Dublin literary award 2009

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Book of the Month January

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Book of the MonthDecemberLonglisted for the Booker Prize 2008A tale about three boys from Florence in the age of Lorenzo de' Medici, and a story of Akbar, greatest of the Mughal emperors, who established both the wondrous and shortlived city Fatehpur Sikri and a wondrous and shortlived policy of religious tolerance.Copies available from the Goldsmith LibraryTel: 090 642 4561Email: library@ait.ie

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Winner of the Man Booker Prize October 2008Meet Balram Halwai, the ‘White Tiger’: servant, philosopher, entrepreneur, murderer. Over the course of 7 nights, Balram tells his story.The White Tiger is a tale of two Indias. Balram’s journey from darkness of village life to the light of entrepreneurial success is utterly amoral, brilliantly irreverent, deeply endearing and altogether

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We have the following databases on trial for the month of October. Passwords will be given in class or can be requested from the library desk or by emailing fmorrissey@ait.ieJustis-(Includes the Irish Reports dating back to 1838). Expires the 18th of Oct.Lexis Nexis-The most comprehensive legal library in the UK containing an unrivalled collection of case law, expert commentary, and primary and

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The Secret Scripture-Sebastian BarrySet against an Ireland besieged by conflict, The Secret Scripture is an epic story of love, betrayal and unavoidable tragedy of individual lives throughout much of the twentieth century. It is the story of a life blighted by terrible mistreatment and ignorance, and yet marked still by love and passion and hope.Copies available to borrow from Goldsmith

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Netherland gives us a picture of a little-known New York and of 21st century America from an outsider’s view point. Netherland is a novel of belonging and not belonging, and the uneasy state in between. It is a novel of a marriage foundering and recuperating, and of the shallows and depths of male friendship.Copies available to borrow from the Goldsmith LibraryEmail: library@ait.ieTel: 090 642

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Using the keyword or advanced search options, Spell Check is now available to correct spelling and also offer the option to see additional spelling suggestions for multiple words at a time. This library catalogue service is available in conjunction with the SIF funded ‘Ascent’ Regional Assessment and Resource Centre lead by AIT (in collaboration with GMIT, I.T. Sligo, LYIT and NUI Galway).

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Books that are available in the library and on Google books in limited preview or full text formats may be accessed by performing a keyword or advanced search on the library catalogue.

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