UCD Library

UCD Library dates from the enactment of University Academy Dublin (UCD) as a basic academy of the National University of Ireland in 1908. It supports the learning, teaching and analysis needs of some 24,000 acceptance and bookish agents in a advanced ambit of disciplines including agronomics 1, architectonics 2, arts and abstract 3, business studies 4, engineering5, law 4, anesthetic 6, science 7, amusing sciences 8 and veterinary anesthetic 1. University Academy Dublin (UCD) is the Republic of Ireland's better university, with over 1,300 adroitness and 22,000 students. It is amid in Dublin, basic of Ireland.

Buildings and locations

There are 5 UCD libraries: the James Joyce Library at Belfield serves as the administrative centre of the library system: it accommodates the central services and 85% of the stock; the Health Sciences library (for medicine, nursing and physiotherapy) is located in the UCD Health Sciences Centre at Belfield; Architecture (for architecture, landscape and planning) is in the Richview precinct at Belfield; Veterinary Medicine, located in the Veterinary Sciences Centre at Belfield; the UCD Michael Smurfit School of Business library 9 at the Blackrock Campus. Accommodation for readers consists of some 3,000 reading and study places, including some single and group study rooms. Wireless internet is available throughout most of the library and a limited number of power outlets are available. The James Joyce Library has a purpose-built assistive learning area for students with disabilities. UCD's student radio station, Belfield FM maintains its broadcasting studio in the former Students' Union Centre in the James Joyce library.

Information resources

The Library as a accomplished contains about 1,300,000 book volumes, with abundant collections in added book and non-print formats, including 400,000 e-books. Almost 80% of banal is on accessible access. Approximately 15,000 purchased monographs, and 2,500 donations or acknowledged drop items are added to banal anniversary year, and 32,000 accepted account titles and databases are available, the all-inclusive majority of which are e-journals. The Library is a European Documentation Centre, a civic archive for United States government publications, and a acknowledged drop library for Irish publications. A baby but cogent captivation of some 50,000 aboriginal printed books and appropriate collections is housed in a abstracted bookstack with absolute ecology control.

Library management system

Library routines and processes are absolutely computerized. A new Library Administration System, addition interfaces Inc. is in the action of getting implemented. It will accommodate new capabilities and above account improvements for both our capacity and Library staff. (The Library is transitioning abroad from application the Talis library administration system.

Services

Lending (including self-service lending), certificate supply, advice abilities training, and advertence and advice casework are accessible in all library locations. Periodicals, advertence materials, official publications, theses, and appropriate collections abstracts are not accessible for loan. A allegation is fabricated for interlibrary accommodation and certificate supply. The University Printing and Artful account provides artful facilities, on a paid self-service basis, in the libraries and in added University buildings. The James Joyce and Health Sciences libraries accommodate a laptop accommodation service. This account enables acceptance and agents to borrow laptops on a concise base aural the borders of the library. ref>Laptop loans The Short Accommodation accumulating in the James Joyce library uses RFID technology. This allows readers to borrow and acknowledgment books after the abetment of library staff. Opening hours 10 in anniversary of the 5 UCD libraries alter throughout the year, but during the bookish affair the James Joyce Library is accessible for 94 hours per week, including Saturdays and Sundays. Online admission is provided on a 24/7 base to an all-encompassing ambit of databases, advice services, cyberbanking journals, and accountable guides. Innovative ability analysis accoutrement are getting implemented to hyperlink citations and full-text (findit@UCDLibrary) 11, and to facilitate analytic beyond a ambit of databases (crossearch@UCDLibrary) 12 A amount of casework based on Web 2.0 technologies are aswell provided. These cover several blogs aimed at specific user groups or apropos to specific account aspects; an burning messaging service, an beginning account in the basic apple Second Life and a page on Facebook. More data of these are accessible from the library projects and pilots page 13 on the website.

Staffing

There are 103 full-time abiding agents of whom 33 are professionally able librarians. These are supplemented by a added 80 arrangement agents The Library provides leadership, and appointment space, for the Irish Virtual Library and Archive Activity 14, the aim of which is to accommodate a researcher-oriented web interface to the digitised agreeable of abstracted repositories in UCD Library15, UCD Archives16, and the UCD School of Irish, Celtic, Studies, Irish Folklore and Linguistics17. This is a five-year activity (2004–2009) adjourned through the Programme for Research in Third-Level Institutions beneath the advocacy of the UCD Humanities Institute of Ireland 18.

Liaison with other libraries and organizations

There is a strong collaborative ethos among the Irish university libraries, and UCD Library participates in a number of collaborative initiatives and projects. These include IReL 19 (the Irish e-Library, an initiative funded by the Higher Education Authority 20 and Science Foundation Ireland to provide a world-class portfolio of e-journals to support research), IRIS (a company which manages the IReL initiative and which also aims to provide a virtual union catalogue of the holdings of the Irish university libraries), ALCID 21 (a reciprocal access scheme for academic staff and postgraduate research students), ANLTC (the Academic and National Library Training Co-operative)22, which provides a regular staff training and development programme, and the Open Access to Research Output Project, funded through the Higher Education Authority’s Strategic Innovation Fund 23 to provide e-repositories in each university, and a national portal, for open-access research publications. Internationally, the Library has participated in the past in a number of research projects funded through the European Commission's FRAMEWORK Programmes, and, as a member of the NEREUS Consortium 24, is currently participating in the NEEO (Network of European Economists Online) 25 project, funded by the eContentplus Programme, to establish a multilingual portal to the full-text research outputs of 500 top researchers in the partner institutions. UCD Library was a partner with the Library of the Queen’s University of Belfast in the PADDI (Planning Architecture Design Database Ireland) project and both libraries continue to jointly operate the PADDI Database service. UCD Library is an institutional member of SCONUL, CONUL26, IATUL27, IFLA and LIBER28.