Tag: libraries
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Knowledge Transfer Ireland – Keeping Dead Academic Experts Alive….
Knowledge transfer Ireland is, as I have noted, rather error ridden. It is designed to allow companies to find experts in academia with whom they can work. This was launched with great fanfare to be a new portal. Lets say I am a company that wants to look for a TCD based art and design…
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Spending on Libraries by Irish Third Level Institutions
So how much, as a proportion of total expenditure does an Irish higher education institution spend on its library service? Thanks to Peter Mathews TD we now know. On average its about 3.6m per annum, or about 4.5% of total spend. This is very small I think. Libraries are the heart of universities, not innovation…
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STEM and HSS journal cuts in Irish University Libraries
Universities are research and teaching institutions, and at the core of research lies the ability of the researcher to discover what is and what is not known about an area. This in effect involves as comprehensive review of the literature as possible and if the library holdings of journals are not as complete as possible…