Discover, Explore and be Inspired! New Library Website.

UCC Library has a new website! We have added a range of new features designed to help you locate the information and resources you need quickly and efficiently. We've also added a new search functionality so you can do a library catalogue search, look for a journal or search acress databases - all from our homepage!

Other new features, which we will continue to develop, are subject portals, a 'How do I' section, FAQs and a 'Study & Research Help' section.

Feedback is important to the Library - please email library@ucc.ie

Sean O'Riada exhibition in the Library

An exhibition, currently mounted on the ground floor of the Library, is an exploration of Seán Ó Riada’s long association with UCC as evidenced by his personal archive. On display are musical scores, notes about his composition, and also some of his own personal instruments. Also running is a DVD copy of the seminal film ‘Mise Éire’, for which Ó Riada wrote the score. Also showing are excerpts from an RTE ‘Feach’ documentary featuring Ó Riada and showing scenes of Coolea and Ballyvourney in the early ‘70’s.

Streaming Audio Database Trial

‘Music Online’ (from Alexander Street Press) is the broadest and most comprehensive online database in streaming audio. It is now available for a trial period within UCC. For the purposes of the trial Music Online will consist of three cross-searchable databases: ‘Classical Music Library’, ‘Jazz Music Library’, & ‘Contemporary World Music’, offering approx. 95,000 tracks in total. Trial access to this database will expire on 30th May 2009. Access it from the library website trials page, or click here . Note: on-campus only,

New e-journals: American Geophysical Union

AGU publishes highly respected, peer-reviewed scientific journals, including the Journal of Geophysical Research, which comprises seven disciplinary sections, and the highly cited Reviews of Geophysics. 16 of their journals (2009 issues only) are now available to UCC users as a result of our participation in the IReL consortium
See our database lists or search for journals on the library web home page.

Library of Congress A-V material on Youtube

The Library of Congress is beginning to make available content from its video and audio collections through YouTube and Apple iTunes in order to make its great resources more widely accessible to a broad audience. See the following on the Library of Congress blog
Click here to access the Youtube material.

Last Chance to complete the IReL survey

Are you a researcher or academic? This is your chance to support the Irish Research e-Library initiative by taking a few minutes to fill in the IReL impact survey. IReL currently provides access to 22,000 e-journals and dozens of online databases. See the IReL website for details. In the current economic climate, it's important that we don't take this valuable initiative for granted. Let the funders know how essential it is for your research.

Library Guide to Finding Images

Check out the new page on Booleweb about how to source images for coursework and for research. You can find it under 'Learn how to' or by clicking here. It covers Library resources, free web resources and copyright information.