UCD Library Newsletter - Spring 2013

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UCD LIBRARY NEWSLETTER SPRING 2013

WELCOME W.B. YEATS

A NEW EXHIBITION AT UCD LIBRARY

AND HIS MUSES

Dr. John B. Howard University Librarian, UCD Welcome to the UCD Library Spring 2013 Newsletter. This issue highlights the extraordinary range of innovative activities with which the Library is engaged, even as it continues to build on traditional strengths.

We celebrate wonderful additions to Special Collections of important Irish literary resources, featuring two significant donations from UCD benefactors. We also celebrate the very significant collection of manuscripts and first editions of W.B. Yeats deposited by Joe Hassett, the prominent American attorney and a graduate of UCD. The Library as a learning place and organisation is well represented, with details of ongoing refurbishments, of the evolution of the Library’s teaching and learning programmes, and a range of outreach activities that promote engagement with Library users and the community in which UCD resides.

From April to September 2013, UCD Library Special Collections is hosting a new exhibition, celebrating the women who inspired much of Yeats’s poetry. Yeats believed in the Greek idea of the Muses as the font of poetic inspiration, and found his muses in living women. The exhibition explores the relationship between five exceptional women and the poems Yeats wrote to or about them.

This exhibition is supported by a significant donation of W.B. Yeats materials, including manuscripts and rare printed editions, to UCD by Joseph Hassett. UCD Library also wishes to acknowledge the deposit by the American Ireland Fund of valuable Yeats material and the contribution of Professor Anthony Roche, UCD School of English, Drama and Film, literary consultant to the exhibition and the author of the freely available exhibition booklet.

Development of new research supports continues. The UCD Digital Library has added several important collections as well as digital mapping capacity, and new services benefiting the research community include supports for GIS and quantitative data services.

And there is much more. Please enjoy this rich edition of the UCD Library Newsletter and follow our activity through our expanding presence in social media venues.

Dr. Joseph Hassett on the night of the Exhibition opening

For further details and access arrangements to visit the exhibition, which we are pleased to be able to offer as part of the UCD contribution to The Gathering 2013, please visit the UCD Library exhibition page at www.ucd.ie/library/yeatsmuses

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IMPROVEMENTS TO THE PHYSICAL LIBRARY SPACE AT JAMES JOYCE LIBRARY

LIBRARY LINK AND NEW MULTI-PURPOSE DESK The physical libraries remain hugely popular with students, particularly as study space. Our most recent survey highlighted the problems of lack of power sockets and we are pleased to have been able to go live with 96 extra power sockets in January 2013 on levels 3 and 4 and some additional sockets in the Law area on level 2 of the James Joyce Library, a very significant increase in provision.

In 2012 the Library successfully refurbished the Special Collections reading room and staff space and the James Joyce Library entrance foyer. A major development then took place with the creation of the Library Hub, a social learning space, also on the entrance level, which has proved to be an extremely popular area with users. Further

refurbishments have now been largely achieved for the entrance level of the Library.

A new compact and welcoming single information and service desk went live in February, extending the youthful and modern design concept of the social learning space into this area, and featuring re-located self-service facilities for users.

On March 19th we opened a new large glassed space opposite the library entrance. Named Library Link, this space is intended to be used for a range of events and initiatives linking the Library to various academic units and user groups, together with the cultural heritage sector and the local community. We are very pleased to welcome the Maths Support Centre as the first users of the space, after which a

programme of initiatives will unfold in the space.

All of these modular refurbishments have been supported by Buildings and Services and created using variations on a single theme so that they work well together. They will also form part of the Library vision being developed for incorporation into the Newman-Joyce project planning process.

The Library Advisory Committee on James Joyce Library Facilities Development had its first meeting on February 19th and will be the main formal Library unit developing our vision and advocating the key importance of an integration of information and cultural heritage facilities across the new complex.

BEFORE AND AFTER: The old desk occupying a large area of level 1 and new compacted staffed and self-service area

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NEW MULTI-PURPOSE DESK

Cormac Reynolds from Buildings and Services and Ursula Byrne, Head of Library Strategic Projects, pictured on February 21st 2013, just before the new desk opened to our users

Alexandra Quinn pictured with Christine Cullen and Margo Mulligan of Client Services. As our first customer she received a book token to mark the occasion

ISSDA DATASETS In early 2013 the Irish Social Science Data Archive received and made available two new datasets: The All Ireland Traveller Health Study (AITHS) The first study of Traveller health status and health needs that involves all Travellers living on the island of Ireland, North and South.

The study aims were: • To count the number of Travellers living on the island of Ireland • To document fertility rates, the number of births (prospectively) and deaths (retrospectively) of Travellers over a period of one year on the island of Ireland • To follow a birth cohort of Traveller infants over a period of 1 year prospectively documenting outcomes, and uptake of services including vaccinations • To document the health status of Travellers living on the island of Ireland • To determine the factors influencing the health status of Travellers and their access to social and health services currently available/utilised by Travellers on the island of Ireland • To document qualitatively the attitudes/perceptions of Irish Travellers to health services http://www.ucd.ie/issda/data/allirelandtravellerhealthstudy/

DONATION FROM IRISH LANGUAGE BOOK CLUB To mark National Libraries Day on November 14th 2012, the Library was pleased to receive a donation from the Irish Language Book Club. Marie Burke, Associate Librarian, is pictured with Diarmuid Ó Mathúna from Clubleabhar.com at the donation ceremony.

Marie Burke with Diarmuid Ó Mathúna from Clubleabhar.com

Household Budget Survey 2009-2010 The main purpose of the HBS is to determine in detail the current pattern of household expenditure in order to update the weighting basis of the Consumer Price Index. Detailed information is also collected on all sources of household income and on a range of household facilities.

The HBS is a survey of a representative random sample of all private households in the State. Surveys have been carried out periodically in Ireland since 1951. ISSDA holds data for the 1987, 1994, 1999/2000, 2004/05 and 2009/10 HBS surveys. http://www.ucd.ie/issda/data/centralstatisticsofficecso/householdbudgetsurvey/

Members of Library staff with Diarmuid Ó Mathúna from Clubleabhar.com

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DEVELOPING RESEARCHER SUPPORT SERVICES GIS (Geographic Information Systems) is used in a growing number of disciplines, among them public health, sociology, geography, geology, archaeology, history, planning and business. GIS can facilitate and enhance research at many levels and is used in a wide number of research areas within UCD. A small group of UCD staff recently carried out a survey in order to determine current GIS activity in UCD and to help inform the future path of GIS service development, with the Library playing a coordinating role.

Key findings from the survey were: • A lack of awareness of how using GIS can enhance research • Difficulties discovering and accessing relevant GIS datasets • Lack of skills and availability of assistance The results of the survey are available at: http://www.ucd.ie/t4cms/Report3.pdf The next steps in addressing the survey findings will be to: • Develop a GIS portal – this will bring together a list of GIS datasets and data layers available either freely or upon application; details of courses, training and tutorials available internally and externally to UCD; details of events both within UCD and externally and other pertinent information.

• Investigate how advisory services to support GIS can be developed and co-ordinated across the Campus.

• Bring GIS to the attention of key UCD committees.

• Identify relevant datasets held by external organisations and where appropriate negotiate for their deposit.

• Instigate metadata creation to facilitate access to datasets.

In the first instance we will be compiling a list of researchers, staff and others in UCD with an interest in this area with a view to circulate to them updates and news. If you are interested in being included on this list please let Jane Nolan, Maps/GIS Librarian know. Jane can be contacted at jane.nolan@ucd.ie

GIS Survey Group Members Julia Barrett, UCD Library Michela Bertolotto, CSI Brendan Dixon, IT Services John Howard, UCD Librarian Peter Keenan, Quinn School of Business Críostóir Mac Cartháigh, Folklore Máirtín MacSiúrtáin, School of Agriculture Gianluca Miscione, Quinn School of Business Zorica Nedovic Budic, GPEP Jane Nolan, UCD Library Cxema Pico, Buildings & Services Rob Sands, School of Archaeology Harutyun Shahumyan, Urban Institute

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NEW DONATION OF LITERARY MATERIAL TO SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

MARY LAVIN DONATION Special Collections hosted a ceremony on Monday, 18th February in which a wide gathering of academics, scholars and students assembled to mark an important donation of literary material.

The donation consisted of manuscripts, first editions and correspondence associated with Irish writer Mary Lavin, and specifically correspondence between Lavin and the academic and scholar Dr. Catherine A. Murphy, formerly of Merrimack College, Massachusetts.

Professor Maureen Murphy with Eugene Roche from Special Collections

The donor, Professor Maureen Murphy of Hofstra University, in Hampstead, New York, a recipient of an honorary doctorate from the National University of Ireland in 2011, spoke of the value of the material to research, especially Lavin’s interview in Merrimack in 1967 in which she discusses the craft of the writer. Professor of Anglo-Irish Literature at UCD, Margaret Kelleher and James Ryan, lecturer and director of creative writing at the UCD School of English, spoke of Lavin the person and of Mary Lavin in the context of Anglo-Irish literature.

The donation is especially welcome as it will augment the already extensive Mary Lavin Collection in Special Collections.

L-R: Prof. Margaret Kelleher, Maura Harmon, Margaret MacCurtain, Prof. Mary Daly, Maurice Harmon, Annraoi Ó Braonáin, Prof. Maureen Murphy

L-R: Professor Frank McGuinness, Dr. Eilís Ní Dhuibhne and Dr. Eibhear Walshe (University College Cork)

L-R: Margaret MacCurtain, Professor Mary Daly, Maurice Harmon, Annraoi Ó Braonáin and James Ryan

Display of some of the donated materials

A full album of photographs from this event can be viewed in our UCD Library public photo gallery at http:// picasaweb.google.com/ ucdlibrary

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UCD DIGITAL LIBRARY

DEVELOPMENTS NEW WEB MAPPING FRAMEWORK

Many resources in the UCD Digital Library have a geographic dimension—they capture images from places, provide location-specific information collected by ethnographers, identify where manuscripts were written or books/pamphlets published, or they may even provide maps of Irish places. UCD Library’s data curators are geocoding many such references, and providing links to pertinent external sources where additional information is available—such as, geonames.org and OpenStreetMap. The UCD Digital Library implemented in January a new mapping framework to better expose this geospatial information to its users. Further information is available at http://digital.ucd.ie/news/

NEW MATERIALS AVAILABLE A DIGITAL COPY OF THE MANUSCRIPT OF THOMAS HARDY’S RETURN OF THE NATIVE UCD Digital library is pleased to announce the launch of a digitised version of the original manuscript of Thomas Hardy’s The Return of the Native.

This novel was originally serialised in Belgravia magazine in twelve instalments during 1878

and was published in full in November of that year.

The manuscript was given to the literary editor Clement King Shorter by Hardy in recompense for his having arranged for the binding of all of Hardy’s manuscripts. Shorter left the manu-

script in his will to the National University of Ireland in memory of his first wife, Dora Sigerson Shorter, daughter of George Sigerson, professor of zoology at University College Dublin.

UCD Library would like to acknowledge the help and encouragement of Professor Tim Dolin, Curtin University, and Professor Simon Gatrell of the University of Georgia. The present project is in some ways the culmination of a process started in 1986 when Professor Gatrell edited the first facsimile edition of the manuscript. The current online reproduction will bring the manuscript to a much wider audience of Hardy scholars, while at the same time helping to preserve the original.

SOCIAL HISTORY PAMPHLETS The National Digital Learning Resources (NDLR) has funded the digitisation of a collection of 91 social history pamphlets, and an atlas, from the 19th century.

The pamphlets are part of UCD Library Special Collections, and focus on 19th century Irish social history, particularly the themes of education, health, famine, poverty, business and communications.

UCD SCHOLARCAST We are also pleased that UCDscholarcast is now available through the UCD Digital Library.

UCDscholarcast will benefit from

UCD Library’s strategic plan to facilitate and implement the preservation of UCD’s cultural heritage digital assets, through the UCD Digital Library.

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WE HEAR

REQUESTING PURCHASE OF BOOKS AND LIBRARY ITEMS

The Library is committed to obtaining user feedback and tailoring our services, where possible, to meet expressed needs. To that end, we were pleased to be able to significantly increase our provision of power sockets on Levels 3 and 4 of the James Joyce Library, to begin to address the shortage, which emerged as a key issue in our 2011 general user survey.

We are delighted to inform you that the Library has funds available for a number of categories of book purchases in this academic year.

There is significant funding available to purchase reading list materials, and also research support books and items.

Full details of how to request both types of material and where to route your request are available on the Library website at http://www.ucd. ie/library/books

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UCD OPEN DAYS

PROMOTING THE LIBRARY Highlighting support services alongside the academic offering is an important feature of UCD Open Days and the Library is happy to participate in these events.

For the first time last year the University offered a Graduate Expo on the afternoon of November 16th, including an exhibition in O’Reilly Hall where the Library staffed a stand and fielded queries about support for postgraduate study. On the following day the regular Open Day for Year 6 students and their families took place. The Library stand, which offered our ever-popular Lucky Dip, handed out leaflets and fielded in-depth queries on library services, seemed to be busier than ever, with traffic only slackening in the final hour.

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OBTAINING USER FEEDBACK TO INFORM OUR TEACHING AND LEARNING STRATEGY Our new Learning Support Strategy aims to give all students the opportunity to have access to Library instruction, whether in class with a lecturer or tutor, via an online tutorial in BlackBoard, through online subject guides or Librarian-facilitated. We are now developing a range of tools that module coordinators can use to help their students at a specific point of need. A menu of these tools will be available for Semester 1 2013/2014, along with continuing advice and support from the College Liaison Librarian team.

In January 2013, UCD Library conducted a survey of all module coordinators. The purpose of the survey was to measure the impact of Library instruction on student learning and to help inform us of the best way to improve our services in the context of this new Learning Support Strategy.

We asked all module coordinators to complete the survey and received a 45% response rate.

We asked respondents if the Library has ever delivered instruction in one of their modules (Fig 1). We then used this information to determine whether those who have had Library instruction felt differently about the Library’s role in skill development in comparison to those who have had no instruction.

Respondents were asked if they felt all students should have Library instruction at some stage in their academic career and an overwhelming majority felt that they should (Fig 2).

Furthermore, 64% of respondents felt that Library instruction should happen every year. Respondents also felt that stages 1 and 3 are the best times in the undergraduate programme for Library instruction and that Semester 1 is the best time for taught postgraduates (Fig 3).

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Taught postgraduates

Fig. 3

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OBTAINING USER FEEDBACK TO INFORM OUR TEACHING AND LEARNING STRATEGY In addition, some respondents also commented on the benefits of having a structured approach throughout each programme: “Instruction in Year one should be built on in subsequent years to enhance skills by year”.

Our new Learning Support Strategy is very much focused on supporting Fig. 4 students’ skill development in relation to finding and using information. Consequently, we asked respondents how they felt Library instruction impacted their students’ skill development. Fig 4 shows that although there is a beneficial impact, there are significant improvements that can be made. Further analysis of the data showed respondents felt tours were the least effective method for developing students’ skills.

Many respondents also commented on the value of UCD Library’s service in the development of key skills: “…it makes a noticeable difference in the quality of assignment students produce. The Library Tutorial is typically rated as one of the most important lectures they have in that Stage 1 module”.

We also asked respondents which services they would like to Fig. 5 see the Library develop into the future. Several people requested the development of reusable objects: “One of the best approaches would be to create materials that are reusable and for any student, regardless of level” and the creation of more online videos: “…really good online video materials, from complete intro to specific and advanced, and available on demand is the way to go”. Whilst there was an overall preference for a workshop setting, first and second choices by respondents were evenly spread across all options (fig 5).

The Library was pleased with the response to this survey and would like to thank all participants. The valuable information gathered will be used to influence the development of our services into the future.

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COLLABORATING WITH THE LOCAL COMMUNITY

dlr PUBLIC LIBRARIES COLLABORATION dlr Libraries (Dun Laoghaire Rathdown) County Librarian, Mairead Owens, approached Carmel O’Sullivan, Associate Librarian UCD Library, in 2011 to discuss possible joint ventures for collaboration between the two libraries. This was followed up by a series of meetings in 2012 and led to the launch of the UCD Book Swap project on 9th April 2013 and also to the donation of a number of books to the UCD Library Life Skills Collection in the James Joyce Library.

The Book Swap has been initially stocked with books withdrawn from the stock of both libraries but it is intended that UCD staff and students will contribute their own books, CDs or DVDs as well as taking one for their own use. dlr Libraries has contributed fiction and non-fiction books, music and film CDs and DVDs to the Book Swap to get it started.

The UCD Book Swap is located outside the admissions area to the James Joyce Library so do come along and give it a go.

There are Life Skills Collections in each of UCD Library’s five libraries but the largest collection is in the James Joyce Library. The JJL Collection

contains books on study skills and health and well-being aimed at supporting students in their academic and social life on campus. The Collection contains books on how to study, exam success, career development and thesis writing as well as books on coping with learning disabilities, depression, addictions, bereavement etc. There is also a small collection of cookery books aimed primarily

at students. dlr Libraries has donated a substantial amount of travel guides and self-help books to the Life Skills Collection. The JJL Life Skills Collection is located in the Library Hub on Level 1 of the James Joyce Library.

UCD Library looks forward to developing this collaboration further in the future.

L-R: Marian Keyes (Senior Executive Librarian, dlr Libraries), Carmel O’Sullivan (Associate Librarian, UCD Library), Councillor Tom Joyce (An Cathaoirleach of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council), Dr. John B. Howard (UCD Librarian), Mairead Owens (County Librarian, dlr Libraries)

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ANOTHER DONATION OF LITERARY MATERIAL TO SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

BOOK OF LEINSTER In February, Special Collections were delighted to host a visit

by Mary O’Hegarty and Dick and Bridget Butler.

Mary O’Hegarty donated a copy of the Royal Irish Academy’s 1880 facsimile of the Book of Leinster to Special Collections last autumn. The Book of Leinster is a medieval manuscript of Irish prose, verse and genealogy compiled in the 12th century and is now kept in Trinity College Dublin.

This copy is especially important as it was given to her father Diarmuid O’Hegarty on the occasion of his marriage in 1922, at which Michael Collins was his best man, by his former colleagues in the Forestry Branch of the Department of Agriculture. Diarmuid O’Hegarty was a civil servant and revolutionary, he was a member of the Irish Volunteers during the Easter Rising, served on the executive of the IRB supreme council along with Michael Collins, was a clerk of the first Dáil and secretary to the Dáil cabinet (1919-21). For more information please see his entry in the Dictionary of Irish Biography.

L-R: Dick Butler, Mary O’Hegarty, Bridget Butler and Eugene Roche from Special Collections

Mary O’Hegarty

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THE LIBRARY CATALOGUE GOES SOCIAL WITH COMMUNITY TAGS

Have you ever wanted to add a keyword, or tag, to an item in our catalogue for future reference? Now you can with a new feature called Community Tagging. Examples of benefits include the ability to group together items of interest for a particular course, or to identify items useful to a seminar or research group.

How does it work?

Once you log in to the catalogue using your UCD Connect login details, you can begin to add tags by clicking into an item’s full record and then scrolling down to the tag input box:

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Fig. 2

You can submit multiple tags for an item, but you must enter them one at a time. Tags are monitored and any that are not appropriate will be removed. Once they are live, just conduct a search as you normally would, using your tags (Fig.1). Use the facets in the left bar of search result screens to limit your search term to where it has been used as a Community Tag only (Fig.2).

If you see community tags in any full record you can click to see other items that have used the same tag.

LIBRARY MARKETING NEWS The Library is developing a more systematic approach to marketing and promotion of our services and value across the University.

A NEW STRATEGIC OUTREACH COORDINATION GROUP A new Outreach Coordination Group has been formed in the Library, with membership who will pull together and monitor library activities across the range of marketing, promotion and communication channels and suggest themes and initiatives to be taken forward.

A LIBRARY LOOK A Library look has been commissioned and is currently in pilot

stage, consisting of a flexible combination of colour and geometric elements each year, being applied to a range of our key publications such as posters, leaflets, flyers, reports and this newsletter.

PROMOTION AROUND MAJOR SERVICES AND THEMES In addition to promoting individual initiatives and service developments, we are also developing promotional campaigns around a monthly major theme. This commenced in March around the theme of UCD Library is Mobile, UCD Library is Social and an accompanying selection of publicity items was prepared. Roadshows were also undertaken and these covered

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LIBRARY MARKETING NEWS both promotion of our current services and also obtaining feedback via a brief questionnaire on the current ownership and plans regarding mobile devices, awareness of the Library’s current range of mobile and social media provision and indications of where users would like the library to concentrate its effort in these areas. Information is available on our website at: http://www.ucd.ie/library/socialandmobile/.

Future themes include eBooks, exam revision skills and cultural heritage collections.

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EBOOKS

Leabharlann UCD UCD Library

http://www.ucd.ie/library/ebooks

Roadshows to promote our mobile and social media presence and obtain feedback proved to be very popular with users during 5-7 March 2013

Newsletter team: Editor: Rosalind Pan Layout and DTP: Anna Schisani Editorial assistance: Cathy Caplan Contributors: John B. Howard, Carmel O’Sullivan, Rosalind Pan, Ursula Byrne, Eugene Roche, Julia Barrett, Aoife O’Brien, Lorna Dodd, Jane Nolan, Joshua Clark, Audrey Drohan

If you would like to see any of these articles in a larger format please contact anna.schisani@ucd.ie Contact the Library: The Library, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4 Email: library@ucd.ie Tel.: 01 716 7694 Fax: 01 283 7068