Monday 4th March 2019 Staff Training day: Library Closed until 5pm

Due to Staff training, the opening hours for the Library on Monday 4th March 2019 are as below;
Main Library: 5pm - 9.45pm
Health Library: Closed
Apologies for any inconvenience

New Library System

We are due to go live with the new library system this week.

If you wish to renew books and you normally do so online, from Monday August 14th, please contact the library at 09064 68210.  We will let you know when you can access the new library system with your PC login details.

Main Campus Library Opening Hours

Monday to Friday: 9.15 am to 4.00 pm.

Closed on Saturdays.

Library Admission Rules

Please note that only registered members are permitted into the library.  Please contact the Library on 090 646 8210 for information on External membership.

Library Facebook Page

Did you know the library has a Facebook page? 

Positive living books at AIT libraries

AIT library has a large collection of popular books titles on Mental health and positive living. these are located at the curved green and white bookshelves on the right hand side of the library as you enter.

Athlone Public Libraries also offer a health Reading collection
 - more details 

Group Study Rooms

The Main Campus Library now has 4 group study rooms

Blue Room       -    Seats 6 people,
Pink Room       -    Seats 6 people,
Orange Room  -    Seats 7 people,
Yellow Room   -    Seats 9 people.

These rooms can be booked for an hour at a time.  Call to the Main Campus Library Issue Desk for more information.

E-book providers

We now subscribe to Dawsonera which hosts a range of e-books in the areas of engineering, computing, graphic design, social care, and business. Offshore engineering titles are available via ScienceDirect.

Summon

AIT 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’s online content – books, articles, databases and more – from a single search box. The service provides credible results in one relevancy-ranked list that can then be refined using multiple methods, such as filtering, faceting and sorting.

It is a great starting point for conducting your research.

Its as easy as 1-2-3:



1. Enter any search term in the Summon search box

2. Refine the results e.g., limit to peer-reviewed articles, publication dates, and subject terms

3. View results and click to follow the link to the full text



Try SUMMON and let us know what you think!

Studies show that students and research staff prefer the quality information found in libraries, such as the full text specialist databases, but find searching on the Web simpler and more straightforward. The Summon™ service is designed to mimic open Web search methods, delivering the quality content that only the Library holds.

Book of the Month-December

Book of the Month October

Book of the Month Sept

Book of the Month
September

Ghost 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

Summer Opening Hours-Main Library

8th June-27th August

Mon-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

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.

Summer Opening Hours

14th of May-2nd of July
Mon-Fri: 9.15am-5pm
5th July-27th August

Mon-Fri: 9.15am-4pm

Book of the Month-May

Book of the Month-May

It 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 Winner

Colum McCann appears on RTE Arts Lives Tues the 4th of May at 10.15pm

Copies available to borrow from Goldsmith Library

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-2009

Copies available to borrow from the Goldsmith Library