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Printing from personal laptops
You can now print from your personal laptop directly to the networked library printer 1. Please read the guidelines below for full instructions on using this service
Guidelines for printing from your personal laptop
Library chat goes live
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Say No to noise 
Congratulations to Ryan Cody, the winner of the recent Library/Student Committee Noise poster competition.
Mary Kearney, Head of Reader Services, Ryan Cody and Brian Murphy, President, Students' Union.
Runner up was Ann Kelly, 3rd Year Science. All entrants were included in a raffle for a €50 book token and this was won by Tony Leneghan, 3rd Year Arts. The winning design will be displayed around the library building, to remind people of how important it is to respect everyone’s right to study in a quiet environment. The judging committee would like to thank everyone who took the time to submit a poster.
Exhibition in the Russell Library
How we arrived at the Future Experiments, inventions and discoveries of the past
26 Jan - 31 March 2010 Monday
Thursday 10:00-13:00 & 14:00-16:30
New features in our library catalogue
We are pleased to offer three new features in "My Library Card":
- A notice following login, if you currently owe money and/or have overdue loans
- Your current total of accumulating fines on overdue loans
- Itemised details of accumulating fines on overdue loans
Tuesday 2.30pm
Opening address by
Professor John G. Hughes, President NUI Maynooth
Address by Monsignor Hugh G. Connolly, President St Patrick’s College, Maynooth
Address by Professor John Ringwood, Associate Dean of Engineering,
Faculty of Science & Engineering
Launch of Research Information System by Professor Ray O’Neill, Vice President for Research
This festival showcases work from the faculty of Science & Engineering.This exhibition will be on display until 3.00pm on Friday 29 January. Everyone is welcome to call into the Library to view the works on display or attend the events listed below.
Further events:
Day 2 – Wednesday 27 January
A round trip from analog to digital media for sound recording and playback
Dr. Joseph Timoney, Department of Computer Science
1.10pm - 1.50pm – The Library, Seminar Room 1
This talk will examine the development of technologies for the capture and playback of sound since the end of the 19th century. Most of the 20th century was dominated by analog media, i.e.LP recording and the cassette tape. However, a shift to digital came for consumers in the 1980s. It could be argued now that this was more revolutionary that the media production companies imagined as the arrival of the mp3 format in the last 10 yearshas severely impacted audio CD sales. Still, in more recent years there has been a noticeable renewal of interest in vinyl and tape. During the presentation the technological processes behind all these media will be examined. Their relative merits, in terms of both fidelity and culture, will also be discussed.
Day 3 – Thursday 28 January
Basis science and global health: an Irish perspective
Dr Martina Schroeder, Department of Biology
1.10pm - 1.50pm – The Library, Seminar Room 1
The ‘Combat Diseases of Poverty Consortium’ (CDPC) is an initiative funded by Irish Aid and the HEA. It links the Department of Anthropology and the Institute of Immunology at NUIM with various partner institutions in Ireland and East Africa to foster scientific exchange and collaborations between Anthropologists, Social Scientists and Biological Scientists on both continents. This provides CDPC scientists with new perspectives and resources to tackle scientific and social research questions associated with various diseases of poverty, such as HIV, Malaria, tuberculosis and the often neglected parasitic diseases that riddle humans and livestock in East Africa. In order to achieve this, the CDPC provides short-term training fellowships for mostly junior scientists from East Africa and Ireland. In the last two years several researchers from Kenya and Uganda have trained at NUIM or the CDPC’s Irish partner institutions, including St. James’s hospital. In exchange, NUIM M.Sc. and M.A. students have travelled to East Africa for research projects at East African institutions. The East African trainees visiting NUIM have also contributed to the successful secondary school outreach programme run by the CDPC. The presentation will focus on the experiences of the trainees and give an overview of the various other activities of the consortium.
Day 4 – Friday 29 January
National Science Museum at St Patrick’s College Maynooth
Open from 12.15pm - 1.15pm
Exhibition in the Russell Library
How we arrived at the future: experiments, inventions and discoveries of the past
This exhibition will be on display until Wednesday 31 March 2010
Monday to Thursday 10.00am–1.00pm and 2.00pm–4.30pm
Maynooth Pathways Project visits the Library. The visit included a tour of the Russell Library and the Museum
Arts Week - Exhibition in Library
7 - 10 December 2009
An exhibition of artworks by students and staff was on display in the Library during Arts Week
University Open Day
First visitors to the library stand at the NUIM Open Day, Muireann Ní Raghallaigh, Allan Fox and Sarah Smith from Boyne Community School.
More visitors to the library stand
Mícheál Konstantine, Conall Mac Clonnaith
and Conor Nolan, Coláiste Cois Life
Syafiqah Cullen, Scoil Mhuire, Trim
with Shauna Callagy, 1st Arts NUIM
Vicki Kielty, Aoife Murray, Jessica Ward, Nicole Fitapatrick, Jennifer Wilson and Sarah Boland,
Hartstown Community School
Seonaidh Jordan and Realtéin McCann, Coláiste Rís, Dundalk
Meabh Farrelly, Eureka Secondary School, Kells, Ciara Maguire, Loreto Secondary School, St. Michael's, Navan and Mark Smith St. Patrick's Classical School, Navan
Patricia Curran and Áine Allen, Eureka Secondary School, Kells
Mark Gleeson, Árdscoil Rís, Griffith Avenue and Aoife Whelan,Our Lady Of Mercy College, Beaumont
Damien McGuinness, Natasha Bird, Elaine Byrne and Emma Connolly, Jesus & Mary Secondary School, Enniscrone
Shane Firel, Anthony Friel, Donna Crossan and Karen Friel, Carndonagh Community School
Orlagh Duggan, Karen Phelan, Deirdre Slattery and Edwina Nolan, Mount Rath Community School
Women in Science Exhibition in the Library
The “Women in Science Exhibition” is on display in the library foyer until the end of November. The exhibition includes Irish and European women scientist from the eighteenth century to the present day. Some of the notable Irish women scientists represented are Maynooth’s own Susan McKenna-Lawlor Emeritus Professor for her contributions to space science, botanist Professor Phyllis Clinch (1901-1984) and Newbridge born, x-ray crystallographyer, Dame Kathleen Lonsdale (1914-2005).
Maynooth’s Irish manuscripts now accessible on the web
Anne Marie O’Brien digitising some of Maynooth’s Irish manuscripts,
in the Russell Library, as part of the ISOS project
Ten of Maynooth’s Irish manuscripts now accessible on the web and more to come!
Meamram Páipéar Riomhaire or Irish Script on Screen project (ISOS) is run by the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. The object is to make digital images of Irish manuscripts available on the web for the use of scholars and students, and to highlight this very important part of Ireland’s heritage. Eleven institutions are participating to date.