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IN THIS
ISSUE
New staff
Reading Lists
Hydroponics
Digital Space Plan
Current Exhibition
Culture Night
Open Access Week

UCC Library
WELCOME
UCC Library warmly welcomes you to
campus for the new semester. We've
been busy preparing our libraries for the
new academic year. And we are as
always, committed to providing excellent
library services that are agile and
responsive.
Please keep an eye our new updated
website and social media for the inside
scoop on some of the things happening in
UCC library.

WELCOME
TO OUR NEW STAFF
Kim Smyth has recently joined UCC Library
team as Assistant Librarian (Collection
Services). Kim has worked in Cork County
Library & Arts Service in a variety of roles since
2005. She has led the management of
collections as part of the Local Studies Library
and was responsible for digitising this
collection also. Kim has also held roles as
Information Officer in a publishing firm in
London and served as Library Assistant in
Cork Institute of Technology earlier in her
career.
Kim will play an integral role in developing
new collections-based services such as the
UCC Library Reading Lists Online Service.
Kim’s email is ksmyth@ucc.ie
Dr. Deborah Thorpe has recently been
appointed the role of Research Data Steward
at UCC Library. She now works as part of the
Library Research Support team. Deborah has
a wide range of experience and has
previously worked as the Education &
Outreach Manager at the Digital Repository of
Ireland. She had responsibility for planning
and delivering DRI's training programme in
digital preservation and data deposit
workflows as well as responsibility for
planning DRI's researcher education
curriculum.
Deborah’s email address is dthorpe@ucc.ie

TEATIME WITH THE
CHANNELLERS
David Late Tibette was born in
Malaysia in 1960, and lives in
Hastings Old Town, England,
with his Sidereal Queen Ania
Goszczyńska and their three
cats, Fairy, Gef!, and Voirrey. He
is the UrSource of the
Hallucinatory Pop Group Current
93. His hobbies are studying and
translating texts from Akkadian,
Biblical Hebrew, Coptic, and
Ugaritic, and also painting,
feeding BirdSong, reading
supernatural fiction, and
rebuilding Borley Rectory. In his
spare time he enjoys building
Golems out of the local clay (and
so now and then אמת < מת <
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UCC Library in partnership
with the Department for the
Study of Religions.
This exhibition will run until
24 September 2022.

HYDROPONICS
Do you care about how your food is grown, handled, how its sourced,
and packaged? We are and so have partnered with Green Towers
Ireland to produce our own food! All produce will be available to staff
and students when harvested so keep an eye on the growth!
Take control of your food supply.

DIGITAL SPACES
Over the summer, UCC Library began transforming some underutilised spaces in the Boole Library.
We are delighted to announce the development of the Digital Scholarship Studio on Q+1. The Digital
Scholarship Studio will provide access to hardware and software that enable new modes of knowledge
building and creates opportunities for students to develop their digital literacy and integrate digital tools into
their learning. The Digital Scholarship Studio will provide access to a wide range of specialist software
including the full Adobe suite, video editing, sound editing, 3D rendering, 3D printing, scanning and more.
The existing equipment booking service will also be located within the space and it will compliment other
spaces within the Library such as the VR Digital Environment Lounge and the Library Studio.
Q+2 will be the new home for some of the Library’s Research Support services including Open Access,
Research Data Service, Scholarly Communications and ORCID.
On Q+3, we will be adding 37 new individual study spaces to the Library.
The development of new technology rich learning spaces in the Library is part of the overall Library space
master plan.

READING
LISTS
In the modern world , Libraries are
adopting new technologies to
expand their offerings whilst
assisting users to access traditional
materials. The house points
Reading lists went which as follows: sit within the
VLE helps the Library to become
part of all learning experiences and
firmly situates it at the Heart of UCC
UCC Reading Lists for Canvas is a
service provided by UCC Library, using
Keylinks software, that will give
students direct access to course
readings via Canvas.
Reading Lists For Canvas provides easy
access to your reading lists for each
module. Your reading list can show the
location and availability of print books
in the library and direct links to
digitised chapters, e-books, and journal
articles.
Other resources such as videos and
links to databases and websites can
also be included. Lists can be arranged
by category, such as 'essential' and
'recommended', divided into topics or
arranged by date.
reading lists are
fundamental to the
development of information
literacy in a higher
education learning
environment as they tell
students that they have an
information need".

Webinar - New Horizons in
Open Access publishing
October 25th 10.00-12.00
Open Access (OA) publishing is well established in our
research landscape, and the advantages of OA are clear but
unfortunately the mechanism and metrics are still tangled with
for profit publishers meaning at some point someone must
pay. Diamond OA refers to Open Access journals and
platforms that are free to both authors and readers. Science
Europe, cOAlition S, OPERAS, and the French National
Research Agency (ANR) recently presented an action plan on
Diamond OA and the landmark Open Access Diamond
Journals Study found that Diamond OA contributes 45% of
OA publishing globally. This coincides with the finalising of the
Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment which aims to
move us away from publish or perish metric to an ecosystem
that recognises the diverse outputs, practices and activities
that maximise the quality and impact of research. During this
webinar we will hear from Dr Samuel Moore about the
potential that could be unlocked with a move towards
Diamond OA and from Prof. Toma Susi on how the reform of
research metrics and assessment could enable this move. Our
Scholarly Comms Librarian Donna Ó Doibhlin will outline the
options for OA publishing in UCC and we will hear more about
CORA our institutional repository. We will also hear from the
editors of some of our homegrown Diamond OA journals
Boolean and Scenario on their journey and the support that
UCC Library has provided along the way.
For abstracts and bios follow this link
https://drive.google.com/file/d/15Heey59UifyJY2eiFlo1Suy_
RKUoPsEm/view
To register for this event please click on the link

2022
UCC Library is very happy to be part of Cork City of Culture 2022. We are holding three special events for the
night.
Show & Tell – Life on Land: Trees & Birds from the 17th to 21st Centuries
6pm-7pm
This show & tell accompanies the online exhibition ‘Life on Land: Trees and Birds from the 17th-21st
Centuries’. In this show & tell we’ll explore some of the items in the online exhibition as well as others
selected from collections in UCC Library’s Special Collections. You’ll see maps, posters, prints and books of
trees and birds as drawn and described by mapmakers, artists, botanists, philosophers, ornithologists,
writers, photographers.
Make your own Zine workshop
4pm-7pm
Share your thoughts, feelings, creativity, experience, and/or knowledge with others! A zine is a smallcirculation
self-published work of original or appropriated texts and images. Zines are often part of a DIY (do
it yourself) culture which often includes people from marginalized communities or those who don’t have
access to more mainstream publishing options.
Boa Morte Live at UCC Library
7pm-8pm
UCC Library are very excited to host a special one off performance by ‘alternative folk rock band’ Boa Morte.
They will be playing in entirety their forthcoming album, The Total Space, and now is your chance to get a
sneak preview of the album in its entirety, months before release.
Booking opens Friday, 9th September.
We hope to see you for one, or more of the events.