Leabharlann UCD An Coláiste Ollscoile, Baile Átha Cliath, Belfield, Baile Átha Cliath 4

UCD Library

University College Dublin

Belfield, Dublin 4.

Welcome to UCD Library Service Ros Pan

Head of Library Outreach & Communications

www.ucd.ie/library

01 716 7583

library@ucd.ie

UCD Library Structure

What we do – in a nutshell

• Study Space at 5 libraries for learners

& researchers and IT infrastructure

• Collections physical and digital &

search and discovery interfaces

• Range of services supporting study

and research – desk services,

information skills training, specialised

researcher support services, guides &

tutorials

• Important role regarding Irish cultural

heritage – Special Collections

The Library website for information

www.ucd.ie/library

The Library Executive Team

Contact Us

Communications - general

• Website

• Facebook page, and twitter account, youtube channel

• Produce library newsletter email alert on that every 3 – 4

months

• Produce annual plan, have 5 year strategy, reports

• Using newish monthly e-zine that UCD Communications

sends to all staff early each month for practical things

e.g. advertise our EndNote courses, reports available

• Front page of website news slides, and have news RSS

feed if into that

• In the libraries notices, posters and 3 of them plasma

screens

• Then College Liaison Librarians will be main channel

of communication at specific College and School level

Communications – College, Schools,

Research Unit

Our Libraries

http://www.ucd.ie/library/using_the_library/our_libraries/

Blackrock Library

Collections:

Business

Drama

Richview Library

Collections

Architecture

Planning

Landscape

Environment

Maps service & OSI

Archinfo

Veterinary Medicine Library

Collections:

Veterinary medicine

Veterinary Nursing

Health Sciences Library

Collections:

Medicine

Nursing

Physiotherapy

Public Health

Sports

Health & Safety

James Joyce Library

Collections:

Arts

Human Sciences

Law

Official Publications

Engineering

Agriculture

Science

Collections: print and digital

• There are about 1 million books

• Short Loan Collection is where a lot of taught student

texts are placed, 30k copies roughly at this time

• Around 80,000+ journal titles, e-journals increasingly

• 650,000 e-books available (via web) through various

packages and set to increase

• 200+ databases

Resource Discovery

Finding Information page on the website

The catalogue – library.ucd.ie

The key tools at present time

• Catalogue, new in July 2012

Print materials, full text local research, shortly e-

journal and individual database titles

• Find It @ UCD

E-journals, databases (alternative and till

september only)

Extra: ability to view what we have by subject,

format, ability to search several databases at the

one time.

• UCD Digital Library cultural heritage digitised

• Research Repository to place your local full text

output and view other UCD research locally

Catalogue – desktop and mobile versions

library.ucd.ie, in UCD Connect, on library

website, and in University app

For online resources – Find it @ UCD

If we don’t have it..

1.Ask us to buy it – contact your

Liaison Librarian to route you

through to your rep. in collections

team to discuss this

2.Ask us to obtain it on Inter-Library

Loan – web page info and form

is online, costed €6

3.Visit another Library – web pages

about the schemes we have

Visiting other libraries: SCONUL Access

Visiting other Libraries: ALCID

Quick Summary of Support Range

Supporting Your Teaching

Supporting

Your

Research

Special Collections