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“Beckett Beyond” Zine Project – Series 2 now exhibiting in the Library

The Library, in collaboration with the Department of Drama and the Trinity Centre for Beckett Studies, is proud to present the second series of “Beckett Beyond Zines” which are on display in Iveagh Hall, former Berkeley Library.

Produced by the Junior Sophisters of the open module “Studies in Samuel Beckett: Beckett Beyond” (designed and taught by Céline Thobois-Gupta), these research zines disseminate each learner’s investigation of Samuel Beckett’s dramatic work with a special focus on a theme of their choice.

This year, the cohort was composed mainly of visiting students, which steered the research dynamic beyond the shores of Ireland towards various political, cultural, and artistic ecosystems. Topics covered included Gender Performance, Technology, and Samuel Beckett; The Politics of Control in Samuel Beckett and George Orwell; Samuel Beckett, Krapp’s Last Tape, and Traumas; Samuel Beckett and Choreography; the Fight Against the Denial of Catastrophe in Samuel Beckett’s Theatre; and Acting Beckett’s Absurd.  Many congratulations to the authors Léana Etienne, Maria Karampatsi, Aoife Kavanagh, Judith Leimann, Charles Putzhoven, and Guo Wen for sharing their work with us.

Copies of the zines are available to read in detail and reflection is invited by completing a feedback form available beside the display.

The Beckett Beyond Zines, which are a significant contribution to undergraduate research in Trinity College, are in the process of being catalogued as part of the Library’s permanent collection, as well as archived on TARA, Trinity’s Institutional Repository.  

The Beckett Beyond Exhibition will run until the end of Trinity Term. You can read more about the Beckett Beyond exhibition at this link – https://libguides.tcd.ie/beckettzines

Written by Céline Thoibois Gupta

School of Creative Arts

and

Terry McDonald

The Library.

Library extension of 24-hour study space to start on March 19th, 2024

The Library is extending its 24-hour space provision for a six week period commencing after the St Patrick’s Day Bank holiday to help students prepare for exams. The Hamilton Library will open on a 24-hour basis from Tuesday 19th March to Thursday 2nd May, providing an additional 600 study spaces for late evening and weekend study. This will supplement the existing 500 study spaces in Kinsella Hall to help boost capacity during the busy pre-exam period.  

The entrance to the Hamilton Library is located on the second floor of the Hamilton building. You’ll need a valid student or staff ID card to enter both the building and the library itself. Security personnel will be present at all times to ensure a safe and secure environment. Toilets, vending machines, PCs and self-service kiosks (for borrowing materials) will be available.

All details of the Library’s opening hours are available here.  

The Ecological Emergency Book Club – next book and February meeting

Happy New Year Book Clubbers! 

The first book club of the year will take place on Friday 9th February in the North Training Room in the Library (former Berkeley Library). The Book Club is open to all staff (professional, research, academic). 

This month we’re reading Kate Raworth’s Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist

We have multiple copies in the Library but we love this one so much you might want to use one of your Christmas book vouchers! It’s widely available in paperback (it’s €13 in Easons for example) and you might find it second hand or in your local public library. 

Kate Raworth (Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University) in 2013, image by Stephan Röhl
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#TCDLIBRARYSURVEY − A BIG THANK YOU TO TRINITY STAFF AND STUDENTS FOR YOUR FEEDBACK

We are extremely grateful to everyone who took the time to complete our recent Library Life Pulse survey.

Congratulations to all our survey prize draw winners whose names were selected to win from a selection of One for All gift vouchers and T-Card credit. 

A special mention to our overall winners Ioana Raducu and Victoria Lawlor who were the lucky recipients of airpods and Galaxy buds respectively. 

Over the coming months, we will be analysing the findings in greater detail in order to create an action plan that addresses your feedback. We will provide a further update during Hilary term. 

Ongoing disruption of the Library’s UK Electronic Legal Deposit

Group of electronic device users logging onto their devices

Please be advised there is an ongoing temporary disruption of the Library’s UK electronic legal deposit service, due to a technical issue. Content including e-books, e-journals and the web archive are likely to be unavailable for a period of time. The Legal Deposit Libraries are working hard to resolve the situation as soon as possible.

Our electronic Legal Deposit collection is a shared endeavour with the other UK Legal Deposit Libraries. Our access to this content is via the British Library. Unfortunately, they are experiencing a major technology outage following a cyber-attack. The outage is affecting their website, online systems and services, and includes electronic Legal Deposit. They anticipate restoring many services in the next few weeks, but some disruption may persist for longer. Please see their blog  https://blogs.bl.uk/living-knowledge/2023/11/cyber-incident.html

British Library cyber-attack:

A cyber-attack on the British Library (BL) means that our “electronic Legal Deposit (UK)” items, which are normally available on our reading room PCs and borrowable Library laptops, are currently unavailable. Additionally, UK theses normally accessed through the EThOS system cannot be viewed.

The outage is affecting the BL website, online systems and services, and includes electronic Legal Deposit. They anticipate restoring many services in the next few weeks, but some disruption may persist for longer.

BL updates and contacts

Regularly check the British Library blog and their X feed @britishlibrary for updates on the current status of their services. You can contact the BL via X or emailing customer@bl.uk (be prepared for delay to responses).

Finding alternative copies of books and articles

Our readers can obviously double-check Stella Search for alternative copies, but may also want to consider HathiTrust or Archive.org for older and out-of-copyright material.

If you are looking for a book and no print or other e-book version is available, contact your Subject Librarian for assistance with sourcing alternative content options; we may be able to purchase an e-book copy, for example, or show you how to request an Inter-Library Loan.

If you are looking for a specific article and we don’t seem to have the journal via a subscription, again, contact your Subject Librarian for help.

Although the British Library catalogue is not available, you can still check for British Library published material in Library Hub Discover. This resource is a database of 204 UK and Irish academic, national & specialist library catalogues. If you want to easily find a copy in another library in the UK or Ireland, then make friends with Library Hub Discover.

Do you have a BL login? Consider resetting your password on other accounts

The BL says: ‘As our systems remain unavailable, you won’t be able to change the password you have used to access British Library services. However, if you use the same password to login to other, non-British Library services we recommend that you change it.’

Many thanks to our colleagues at the Bodleian Library who originally created much of the above guidance. This is also included in the our https://libguides.tcd.ie/bl-cyber-attack.

We will keep  readers updated during this process. If you require urgent access to a title available on UK eLD only, please contact library@tcd.ie for assistance.

#TCDLIBRARYSURVEY – HAVE YOUR SAY

A Library survey was launched university-wide today seeking feedback from all staff and students on their experience of using the Library.

The Library is at the heart of the University, providing services, resources, training and space. This is an opportunity for you to have your say in relation to your Library and how it can best support you currently, and in its future development.

As a thank you for taking part, all participants will have the option of entering a prize draw to win AirPods, Galaxy buds, One4all vouchers and T-card top-ups.

Start the library survey now!

The survey is being administered on behalf of the Library by an independent research agency called Alterline.

If you would like the survey to be provided in an alternate format, please email Alterline at llphelp@alterline.co.uk

Please note, all responses are confidential. You can find information about Alterline’s General Data Protection Regulation policy on their website.

The Ecological Emergency Book Club – next book and December meeting

Are you a member of staff who would like to know more about the climate emergency but don’t know where to start?

We’ve teamed up with Dr. Clare Kelly in the School of Psychology to bring you a monthly book club to showcase some of the best readings on the climate and biodiversity crisis.

December’s Book Club

Photo of author Richard Powers, and the cover of his novel, The Overstory

Our third book club takes place on Friday, 8th December and this month’s pick is:
Richard Powers’ The Overstory. The Library has seven copies!

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LIBRARY STUDY SPACE CAMPAIGN

A messy desk cluttered with laptop, notes, food, drinks, papers and personal belongings. Not leaving room for others.

On Monday 13th November, the Library will be launching its Study Space Campaign to address the issue of ‘desk-hogging’ (i.e., the practice of leaving books and personal belongings unattended for long periods of time at Library study spaces, thus preventing others from using those spaces). A dedicated team of stewards will be freeing up study spaces that have been left unoccupied for more than 60 minutes. Belongings are moved to clear plastic boxes to designated storage areas on the same floor.

Full details of the campaign are available on the Library regulations webpage: https://www.tcd.ie/library/about/regulations.php

The Library Study Space Campaign relies on the cooperation of all readers. We ask that you be respectful and support the Steward Team to ensure that everybody has a fair chance of finding a suitable study space during this stressful pre-exam period. You can also assist us by not leaving personal belongings (especially laptops, phones, USB drives or other valuables) unattended for any length of time, and by sticking to the 60 minute break rule.

Reminder to take breaks, stay hydrated and eat all snacks and meals outside of the Library, but do take your valuables with you.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us at: library@tcd.ie.

Temporary Disruption of the Library’s UK Electronic Legal Deposit Service

Group of electronic device users logging onto their devices

Please be advised there is a temporary disruption of the Library’s UK electronic legal deposit service, due to a technical issue. Content including e-books, e-journals and the web archive are likely to be unavailable for a number of days. The Legal Deposit Libraries are working hard to resolve the situation as soon as possible. We will keep readers updated during this process. If you require urgent access to a title available on UK eLD only, please contact library@tcd.ie for assistance.

Our electronic Legal Deposit collection is a shared endeavour with the other UK Legal Deposit Libraries. Our access to this content is via the British Library. Unfortunately, they are experiencing a major technology outage following a cyber-attack. The outage is affecting their website, online systems and services, and includes electronic Legal Deposit. They anticipate restoring many services in the next few weeks, but some disruption may persist for longer. Please see their blog  https://blogs.bl.uk/living-knowledge/2023/11/cyber-incident.html

for updates from them.

The Ecological Emergency Book Club – next book and November meeting

Are you a member of staff who would like to know more about the climate emergency but don’t know where to start?

We’ve teamed up with Dr. Clare Kelly in the School of Psychology to bring you a monthly book club to showcase some of the best readings on the climate and biodiversity crisis.

November’s Book Club

Cover of Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything and photo of author

Our second book club takes place on Friday, 10th November in the North Training Room in the Library (former Berkeley Library). This month’s pick is Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything.

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