UCD Library
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UCD Library dates from the establishment of University College Dublin
(UCD) as a constituent college of the National University of Ireland
in 1908. It supports the learning, teaching and research needs of some 24,000 students and academic staff in a wide range of disciplines including agriculture , architecture , arts and humanities , business studies , engineering, law , medicine , science , social sciences and veterinary medicine .
University College Dublin
(UCD) is the Republic of Ireland
's largest university
, with over 1,300 faculty and 22,000 students. It is located in Dublin, capital of Ireland.
library at the Blackrock Campus.
Accommodation for readers consists of some 3,000 reading and study places, including some single and group study rooms. Almost all study places are wireless and power enabled. The James Joyce Library has a purpose-built assistive learning area for students with disabilities.
items are added to stock each year, and 32,000 current journal
titles and databases are available, the vast majority of which are e-journals
. The Library is a European Documentation Centre, a national depository for United States government publications
, and a legal deposit library for Irish publications. A small but significant holding of some 50,000 early printed books and special collections is housed in a separate bookstack with independent environmental control.
library management system
.
, information skills training, and reference and information services are available in all library locations. Periodicals, reference materials, official publications, theses, and special collections materials are not available for loan. A charge is made for interlibrary loan
and document supply. The University Printing and Copying service provides copying facilities, on a self-service basis, in the libraries and in other University buildings.
The James Joyce and Health Sciences libraries provide a laptop loan service. This service enables students and staff to borrow laptops on a short-term basis within the confines of the library. ref>Laptop loans
The Short Loan collection in the James Joyce library uses RFID technology. This allows readers to borrow and return books without the assistance of library staff. Opening hours in each of the five UCD libraries vary throughout the year, but during the academic session the James Joyce Library is open for 94 hours per week, including Saturdays and Sundays.
Online access is provided on a 24/7 basis to an extensive range of database
s, information services, electronic journals, and subject guides.
Innovative resource discovery tools are being implemented to hyperlink citations and full-text (findit@UCDLibrary) , and to facilitate searching across a range of databases (crossearch@UCDLibrary)
A number of services based on Web 2.0
technologies are also provided. These include several blogs aimed at specific user groups or relating to specific service aspects; an instant messaging
service, an embryonic service in the virtual world Second Life
and a page on Facebook
. More details of these are available from the library projects and pilots page on the website.
The Library provides leadership, and office space, for the Irish Virtual Library and Archive Project , the aim of which is to provide a researcher-oriented web interface to the digitised content of separate repositories in UCD Library, UCD Archives, and the UCD School of Irish, Celtic, Studies, Irish Folklore and Linguistics. This is a five-year project (2004–2009) funded through the Programme for Research in Third-Level Institutions under the aegis of the UCD Humanities Institute of Ireland .
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 (a reciprocal access scheme for academic staff and postgraduate research students), ANLTC (the Academic and National Library Training Co-operative), 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 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 , is currently participating in the NEEO (Network of European Economists Online) 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
, CONUL, IATUL, IFLA
and LIBER.
University College Dublin
University College Dublin ) - formally known as University College Dublin - National University of Ireland, Dublin is the Republic of Ireland's largest, and Ireland's second largest, university, with over 1,300 faculty and 17,000 students...
(UCD) as a constituent college of the National University of Ireland
National University of Ireland
The National University of Ireland , , is a federal university system of constituent universities, previously called constituent colleges, and recognised colleges set up under the Irish Universities Act, 1908, and significantly amended by the Universities Act, 1997.The constituent universities are...
in 1908. It supports the learning, teaching and research needs of some 24,000 students and academic staff in a wide range of disciplines including agriculture , architecture , arts and humanities , business studies , engineering, law , medicine , science , social sciences and veterinary medicine .
University College Dublin
University College Dublin
University College Dublin ) - formally known as University College Dublin - National University of Ireland, Dublin is the Republic of Ireland's largest, and Ireland's second largest, university, with over 1,300 faculty and 17,000 students...
(UCD) is the Republic of Ireland
Republic of Ireland
Ireland , described as the Republic of Ireland , is a sovereign state in Europe occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of the same name. Its capital is Dublin. Ireland, which had a population of 4.58 million in 2011, is a constitutional republic governed as a parliamentary democracy,...
's largest university
University
A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university is an organisation that provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education...
, with over 1,300 faculty and 22,000 students. It is located in Dublin, capital of Ireland.
Buildings and locations
There are 5 UCD libraries: the James Joyce Library at Belfield is 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 BusinessMichael Smurfit Graduate School of Business
The UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School is the business school of University College Dublin, located in Blackrock in Dublin, Republic of Ireland....
library at the Blackrock Campus.
Accommodation for readers consists of some 3,000 reading and study places, including some single and group study rooms. Almost all study places are wireless and power enabled. The James Joyce Library has a purpose-built assistive learning area for students with disabilities.
Information resources
The Library as a whole contains about 1,300,000 print volumes, with substantial collections in other print and non-print formats, including 400,000 e-books. Almost 80% of stock is on open access. Approximately 15,000 purchased monographs, and 2,500 donations or legal depositLegal deposit
Legal deposit is a legal requirement that a person or group submit copies of their publications to a repository, usually a library. The requirement is mostly limited to books and periodicals. The number of copies varies and can range from one to 19 . Typically, the national library is one of the...
items are added to stock each year, and 32,000 current journal
Academic journal
An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research...
titles and databases are available, the vast majority of which are e-journals
Electronic journal
Electronic journals, also known as ejournals, e-journals, and electronic serials, are scholarly journals or intellectual magazines that can be accessed via electronic transmission. In practice, this means that they are usually published on the Web...
. The Library is a European Documentation Centre, a national depository for United States government publications
United States Government Printing Office
The United States Government Printing Office is an agency of the legislative branch of the United States federal government. The office prints documents produced by and for the federal government, including the Supreme Court, the Congress, the Executive Office of the President, executive...
, and a legal deposit library for Irish publications. A small but significant holding of some 50,000 early printed books and special collections is housed in a separate bookstack with independent environmental control.
Library management system
Library routines and processes are fully computerised, using the TalisTalis Group
Talis Group Ltd. is a software company based in Birmingham, England that develops a Semantic Web application platform and a suite of applications for the education, research and library sectors...
library management system
Integrated library system
An integrated library system , also known as a library management system ,is an enterprise resource planning system for a library, used to track items owned, orders made, bills paid, and patrons who have borrowed....
.
Services
Lending (including self-service lending), document supplyInterlibrary loan
Interlibrary loan is a service whereby a user of one library can borrow books or receive photocopies of documents that are owned by another library...
, information skills training, and reference and information services are available in all library locations. Periodicals, reference materials, official publications, theses, and special collections materials are not available for loan. A charge is made for interlibrary loan
Interlibrary loan
Interlibrary loan is a service whereby a user of one library can borrow books or receive photocopies of documents that are owned by another library...
and document supply. The University Printing and Copying service provides copying facilities, on a self-service basis, in the libraries and in other University buildings.
The James Joyce and Health Sciences libraries provide a laptop loan service. This service enables students and staff to borrow laptops on a short-term basis within the confines of the library. ref>Laptop loans
The Short Loan collection in the James Joyce library uses RFID technology. This allows readers to borrow and return books without the assistance of library staff. Opening hours in each of the five UCD libraries vary throughout the year, but during the academic session the James Joyce Library is open for 94 hours per week, including Saturdays and Sundays.
Online access is provided on a 24/7 basis to an extensive range of database
Database
A database is an organized collection of data for one or more purposes, usually in digital form. The data are typically organized to model relevant aspects of reality , in a way that supports processes requiring this information...
s, information services, electronic journals, and subject guides.
Innovative resource discovery tools are being implemented to hyperlink citations and full-text (findit@UCDLibrary) , and to facilitate searching across a range of databases (crossearch@UCDLibrary)
A number of services based on Web 2.0
Web 2.0
The term Web 2.0 is associated with web applications that facilitate participatory information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design, and collaboration on the World Wide Web...
technologies are also provided. These include several blogs aimed at specific user groups or relating to specific service aspects; an instant messaging
Instant messaging
Instant Messaging is a form of real-time direct text-based chatting communication in push mode between two or more people using personal computers or other devices, along with shared clients. The user's text is conveyed over a network, such as the Internet...
service, an embryonic service in the virtual world Second Life
Second Life
Second Life is an online virtual world developed by Linden Lab. It was launched on June 23, 2003. A number of free client programs, or Viewers, enable Second Life users, called Residents, to interact with each other through avatars...
and a page on Facebook
Facebook
Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...
. More details of these are available from the library projects and pilots page on the website.
Staffing
There are 103 full-time permanent staff of whom 33 are professionally qualified librarians. These are supplemented by a further 80 contract staffThe Library provides leadership, and office space, for the Irish Virtual Library and Archive Project , the aim of which is to provide a researcher-oriented web interface to the digitised content of separate repositories in UCD Library, UCD Archives, and the UCD School of Irish, Celtic, Studies, Irish Folklore and Linguistics. This is a five-year project (2004–2009) funded through the Programme for Research in Third-Level Institutions under the aegis of the UCD Humanities Institute of Ireland .
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 (the Irish e-Library, an initiative funded by the Higher Education AuthorityHigher Education Authority
The Higher Education Authority is the authority in Ireland with responsibility for higher education since 1968 and placed on a statutory basis in 1971. The authority supports HEAnet, part of the GEANT network....
and Science Foundation Ireland
Science Foundation Ireland
Science Foundation Ireland ), is the statutory body in the Republic of Ireland with responsibility for disbursing funds for basic science research with a strategic focus...
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 (a reciprocal access scheme for academic staff and postgraduate research students), ANLTC (the Academic and National Library Training Co-operative), 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 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
European Commission
The European Commission is the executive body of the European Union. The body is responsible for proposing legislation, implementing decisions, upholding the Union's treaties and the general day-to-day running of the Union....
's FRAMEWORK Programmes, and, as a member of the NEREUS Consortium , is currently participating in the NEEO (Network of European Economists Online) 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
SCONUL
SCONUL is the membership organisation for all academic and national libraries in the UK and Ireland.-History:...
, CONUL, IATUL, IFLA
IFLA
IFLA may stand for:*International Federation of Landscape Architects*International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions*Israel Free Loan Association...
and LIBER.