New Subject Portals

There are new subject portals on the Library website for:
English and History of Art. These should prove to be useful starting points for students who need to find databases, journals and web resources for assignments. See Subject Portals

British Library World & Traditional Music... Now Free Online

The British Library has made its world and traditional archives available for free online. The archives consist of over 28,000 tracks dating back to 1898.

For more details see here:

e-Image Space blog

This blog, created by James Cronin from dept. of History of Art is worth checking out. The purpose of the blog is to support the study of History of Art at UCC. Specifically, the blog supports a workshop series 'dedicated to the engagement and application of web resources to the disciplinary study of art history within historical studies'. Note the most recent post about a workshop series entitled 'Beyond Wikipedia and Google'.

New Music Streaming Database for UCC: Music Online

Important new resource: Music Online is the broadest and most comprehensive online database for streaming music. UCC's new subsciption consists of 3 products: 'Classical Music Library', 'Contemporary World Music' and 'Jazz Music Library'. All 3 can be accessed through the unified Music Online interface, or individually via the 'go to' menu at the foot of the Music Online homepage.
In all there are approx. 100,000 tracks on our Music Online package. You can access this resource through the Library website. Go to 'Databases' on the homepage, or through the Search the Library page:

To find out more:
'Classical Music Library'. read more here.
'Contemporary World Music'. read more here.
'Jazz Music Library'. read more here.

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,