Monday, March 7, 2011

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Castlebar Campus Moore Library - Library Ireland Week

Our Campus in 1901, District Lunatic Asylum: A History. A Lecture by Fidelma Creaven.
GMIT now occupies the site of the Castlebar District Lunatic Asylum, later known as St. Mary's Hospital, which opened in 1866. For the next 139 years people with mental illness were treated here until it ceased to function as a Psychiatric Hospital in 2005. This talk will focus on 1901 as a year in the life of the hospital.
When: 2pm, Thursday, 10th March 2011.
Where: Roseanne Clear Lecture Theatre, GMIT, Castlebar.
All are welcome

Weekend Opening

Dublin Rd. library has extended the opening hours on Friday's and is now open Saturday.

The opening hours are:

Monday - Wednesday 09.00 - 22.00

Thursday - Friday 09.00 - 21.00

Saturday 10.00 - 13.00

Cluain Mhuire - EndNote Web Training

Wednesday 9th March 2011
12:30pm - 1:30pm
The Green Room

EndNote Web is designed to help you to organise your citations and easily create a bibliography.

Institute Network Outage Fri 4th March & Sat 5th March

Make sure and check out your books before 8pm on Friday 4th March as there will be no IT services available after that time due to network outrage.

There will be NO e-mail, Internet access, Library services, network drives etc. for all campuses.

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Library Ireland Week 7 - 13 March 2011

Library Ireland Week is an annual event promoting and celebrating libraries in Ireland. Activities are held in academic, public and special libraries throughout the country and here in GMIT, we are also hosting events. Please find below details of our lunchtime lectures during the week.


We hope you can join us for one or all of these talks. Tea/coffee will be served.

GMIT Lunch Time Lectures - Venue Library Research Room

Mon 7th March ~ 1pm
Researching Irish military history a personal view. Mr Joe Loughnane, GMIT

Tues 8th March ~ 1pm
Climate change & natural disasters in Ireland. Dr Kieran Hickey, NUIG

Thurs 10th March ~ 1pm

Abstract Expressionism & Mark Rothko. Anne Harkin Petersen

For more information on Library Ireland Week go to: http://www.libraryirelandweek.ie/