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Capturing art: exploring the role of the academic art librarian in the modern world
(Dublin Business School, 2020)Art Libraries and Art special Collections are a place of academic wonder, a space for communication, connection and creation. The recent re-emergence of the ‘visual’ has in terms of art education and academic art study, ... -
Capturing classical and contemporary classical music: assessing current practices and exploring the future
(Dublin Business School, 2019)This research presents a review of the current practices employed when cataloguing classical and contemporary classical music and also explores the potential of Linked Data to share and to disseminate music metadata ... -
Case study of the use of social media facilities provided by the Dublin Business School Library by students of the Dublin Business School
(Dublin Business School, 2013)There has been a lot of research done on Web 2.0 technologies and social media facilities in academic libraries. Social media like Facebook, Twitter, blogs and instant messaging (IM) offer a lot of scope for librarians to ... -
A Case Study of Two County Libraries' Motivations in Archiving/Collecting Local Irish History and Folklore
(Dublin Business School, 2019)The aim of this dissertation is to investigate the motivation behind why local Irish history and folklore is being archived/collected in two example county libraries. This study employed an inductive, qualitative research ... -
The commercialisation of genealogy – is it ethical for commercial businesses to charge money for access to genealogical records?
(Dublin Business School, 2017)The discipline of genealogy entails the study of family history. Ancestry was, until fairly recently, chronicled exclusively through paper records housed in physical repositories. The advent of the internet allowed records ... -
Developments in research data services in Ireland – current activities of Irish libraries and librarians’ perceptions of drivers and constraints
(Dublin Business School, 2019)Librarians and library staff active in research data services were surveyed and interviewed to assess perceptions of the development of research data services in Irish universities and Institutes of Technology. These results ... -
Digital resources in dlr Libraries: their awareness and usage amongst library users
(Dublin Business School, 2017)There is little research in the field on the digital resources of public libraries in Ireland. This dissertation seeks to examine these resources in the context of one public library authority, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown ... -
Do working public librarians in Ireland perceive and run their libraries as community centres?
(Dublin Business School, 2020)This study explores the role of the public library in the community from the perspective of Irish librarians. There is a global conversation taking place on the role of the public library in the community, and whether ... -
Ethical Cataloguing: exploring a potential role for the academic librarian in the promotion of social justice
(Dublin Business School, 2021)The aim of this study is to evaluate the manner in which information is organised by academic libraries in Dublin. The researcher undertook this qualitative research by conducting in-depth, semi-structured interviews ... -
Evaluating the usability of library services accessed via EBSCO Host Mobile
(Dublin Business School, 2010)Statement of the Problem: In recent years, academic libraries have started to examine the possibility of providing more of their content and services via the new platform of Web-enabled mobile devices such as iPods and ... -
Everything’s fine: how design and public library communities interact in South Dublin
(Dublin Business School, 2020)The research seeks to understand how physical design strategies are implemented, what priorities are involved and if those strategies are aligned with the goals of engaging communities. Four qualitative semi-structured ... -
An examination of the employment scope of recent library and information science masters course graduates in the Republic of Ireland
(Dublin Business School, 2017)The range of skills used by librarians on a day-to-day basis is continuously expanding due to constant developments in technology. As a result, recent LIS graduates need to be educated in a variety of skills in order to ... -
An examination of the impact of the current economic recession on academic library budgets in the Republic of Ireland and the measure introduced to implement budgetary cuts
(Dublin Business School, 2012)In recent years the deterioration of the economic climate has adversely affected the Higher Level Education sector in Ireland. This has led to the inevitable erosion of the financial resources of academic libraries. This ... -
An examination of the issues impacting rare books in Irish libraries
(Dublin Business School, 2012)Since the publication of Judith Panitch’s Exploring Hidden Collections in 1998 special collections and rare books have become an increasingly important focus for libraries. This publication prompted the ARL to set up a ... -
An examination of the prevalence of web 2.0 tools in Irish public and academic libraries and the implementation of web 2.0 tools as a major component of library 2.0
(Dublin Business School, 2011)Libraries around the world are implementing a range of web technologies to improve the manner in which library services are delivered to users. The implementation of new technologies and functionalities is necessary if ... -
An examination of the value that librarians bring to the legal services environment in Ireland and the United Kingdom
(Dublin Business School, 2015)This research is an exploration of how law librarians are perceived. Both law librarians and legal professionals in Ireland and the United Kingdom were surveyed in relation to their perceptions of law librarians. The survey ... -
Exploring the role of school librarians in Irish DEIS and fee-paying schools
(Dublin Business School, 2016)School libraries provide students with information and resources that complement the curriculum being delivered by teachers while positively impacting students’ schooling experience. School librarians are trained to equip ... -
A faculty in flux on the road to research: their awareness of, and attitudes towards, institutional repositories
(Dublin Business School, 2012)This case study dissertation examined a third level institution that has recently begun to promote research among its faculty, notwithstanding the fact that many faculty members are currently independently research-active. ... -
Film canons and the academic library
(Dublin Business School, 2011)In 2005 it was suggested within a New York Times article that perhaps a university level qualification in film studies could be considered “the new MBA” given the moving image’s extraordinary capacity for communicating ... -
Fingal County Libraries : the user's perception of a next generation library catalogue
(Dublin Business School, 2016)This study explores the perception of borrowers from Fingal County Libraries of Encore, a next generation library catalogue. Fingal County Libraries is a public service library and for generations, public libraries have ...