September Opening Hours for Brookfield Library

BROOKFIELD HEALTH SCIENCES LIBRARY – SEPTEMBER 2007

Monday – Friday Open from 9a.m. – 10:15p.m. Service from 9:15a.m. – 4:15p.m.

Saturday and Sunday Open from 10a.m. – 5p.m. Service Desk Closed

Opening Times - Monday 6 Aug 2007 - Public Holiday

Monday 6 Aug is a public holiday and UCC Library opening times change as a result:

Brookfield Health Sciences Library: Closed
Cork University Hospital Library: Closed
Boole Library: Closed

Full details of opening hours can be found at:http://booleweb.ucc.ie/Openinghours/opening.htm

Database Trial: MIDIRS

UCC has a tial of the Maternity and Infant Care Database (MIDIRS) This database trial for up to 4 simultaneous users is available until 28th June 2007.


MIDIRS is a bibliographic database for midwifery. Its aim is to provide maternity health professionals with an overview of key midwifery and medical research to inform their practice. The information is gathered from over 550 international journals and original articles are commissioned on the hot topics being discussed by the midwifery profession.



As our decision whether or not to subscribe to these titles will be based on feedback received during the trial, we would welcome any comments you may have – to send your comment just click on Comments below.

eBooks Trial 21 May - 1 September 2007

UCC Library has trial access to over 500 eBooks on ScienceDirect & can be accessed online via ScienceDirect - we'll be happy to help if you have any queries or problems.

A complete title list <http://info.sciencedirect.com/content/books/docs/ebooks_triallistSD.xls> is available for your review. In addition, links to the full text on ScienceDirect have been included.


There are 315 Medicine & Health related titles under the following subject headings:
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 156 titles
Immunology and Microbiology 37 titles
Medicine and Dentistry 36 titles
Neuroscience 50 titles
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 13 titles
Psychology 33 titles

As our decision whether or not to subscribe to these titles will be based on feedback received during the trial, we would welcome any comments you may have – to send your comment just click on Comments below.

Eating, Drinking and Carousing in Library

The Library at the Mercy University Hospital is located in what was originally the Mansion House, former residence of the Mayors of Cork. The building was designed in an Italianate style by the architect Davis Ducart and no expense was spared on its construction and fitting out. The magnificent stucco work, carried out in an elaborate Rococo style by Patrick Osborne of Waterford, remains remarkably intact. The building was completed around 1767. From early on the Mansion House became renowned for its magnificent balls, receptions and banquets, which were both lavish and frequent. But as the economy of the city declined in the early 19th century, the Corporation realised that it could no longer afford to subsidise such excess. The Mayor was relocated to a more humble abode and the Mansion House was handed over to the Church. The Mercy Hospital opened for business on St. Patrick’s Day 1857.

As part of our 150th anniversary celebrations, it was decided to hold two celebratory banquets in the hospital. And what more appropriate place to hold them than in the Library, which was the original dining room of the Mansion House? Mary Dunnion, Director of Nursing, hosted the first banquet to coincide with the inaugural National Nursing Conference and Professor Gerry O’Sullivan, current President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland, hosted the other.

The Library received a total makeover for both occasions. The room was lit by large antique candelabras. To enter the Library was to take a step back in time to a more elegant age. And for once food was eaten and drink imbibed without any admonishment from Library staff, and not a single ssssshhhhhh was heard all evening.

May Public Holiday - opening times

Monday 7 May is a public holiday and UCC Library opening times change as a result:

Brookfield Health Sciences Library: 9a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Cork University Hospital Library: Closed

Boole Library: 10a.m. - 9:45p.m.

Full details of opening hours can be found at:
http://booleweb.ucc.ie/Openinghours/opening.htm

Opening Hours - Brookfield

Brookfield Health Sciences Library opening hours have been finalised for the coming months.

In Term time we're open 9a.m. - 10:15 p.m. Monday - Friday and 9a.m. - 3:30p.m. Saturday & Sunday.

Over the summer from 1 June until 2 September we're open 9 a.m. - 8:30p.m. Monday - Friday and 9a.m. - 3:30p.m. on Saturdays.

You can check opening times for all our libraries at http://booleweb.ucc.ie/Openinghours/opening.htm - please don't forget to check the Exceptions to regular hours link for holiday weekends etc.

Laptops in Basement

We have received complaints from users of the Basement in Brookfield Health Sciences Library that the keyboard clicking of wireless laptops is causing irritation. In response we have created a delimited area for laptop use in the Basement in the hope this may deal with the problem.

We hope to get full cooperation from laptop users in this experiment. We would be very pleased to get any feedback from you on how well this experiment is working – has it solved the problem or are there other possibilities?

New staff ID card is Library Membership card

With the introduction of the new UCC Staff ID card it has become possible for us to help lighten the load you have to carry!

For several years now students have needed only their UCC ID card to avail of library services; however, staff members had to register and carry a separate piece of plastic. The introduction of the new staff ID card allows you to change that.

Any member of staff who wishes to change over can do so on their next visit to the library - just mention it to library staff and produce your new ID card - we'll make the change over in a couple of seconds and you can throw away the old library membership card.

UK PubMed Central set up!

Since January 2007 biomedical researchers have been able to submit their own published results and papers for inclusion in a new online resource.

UK PubMed Central is based on the model currently used by the US National Institute of Health providing free access to an online archive of peer-reviewed research papers in the medical and life sciences.

Check it out at: http://ukpmc.ac.uk/