The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collectioncontains over 950 online audio-visual seminar-style talks each specially commissioned by leading scientists (including Nobel Laureates) from around the world.This new resource is perfect for the classroom setting, in the lab, for your research, as part of your course curriculum and as a study/reference tool for your students.
Today, Thursday 12th February is Darwin Day, the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin.
To celebrate the occasion, a new exhibition is now available for viewing:
The Charles Darwin Bicentennial: UCC Celebrates Natural History and the Victorian Scholar
Location: Exhibition Area Boole Library
The exhibition displays rare and influential works from UCC Library’s Special Collections, by Darwin and those who influenced him.
The books are enhanced by specimens from UCC’s Zoology and GeologyMuseums.
Highlights include:
A rare first edition of Origin of Species, along with a wide range of Darwin first editions, including Descent of Man.
Specimens from UCC’s Zoology Museum, including two actually collected by Charles Darwin himselfin Patagonia, South America, during the H.M.S. Beagle voyage, under the command of Captain Robert Fitz Roy (1831-1836). Acquired by Queen’s College Cork for its Natural History Museum, they provide a direct tangible link with the young Darwin, naturalist on the voyage.
Specimens from the Geology Museum that illustrate the fossil record, including a complete Ichthyosaur, over 250 million years old, and the transitional fossil Archaeopteryx, also known as “first bird”. Archaeopteryx discovered in 1861, only two years after Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, became a key piece of evidence in the debate over evolution.
Beautifully illustrated works including a full set of the original volumes of The Zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, under the command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N., during the years 1832 to 1836 with John Gould’s famous bird descriptions.
The exhibition will run until the end of March, so I do hope you get a chance to drop in sometime.
With thanks to Siobhan Bowman, Special Collections
NB: Next available class is on Friday 16th January 2009 at 11.30am.
An Introduction to EndNote.
This training session will take place on Monday 15th December 2008, 2.30pm - 4.30pm in the Research Skills Teaching Room, Q-1, Boole Library basement. Please meet at the Library Security Desk, just inside barriers at entrance to Library at 2.25pm. Now Full
If you, or anyone you know, would like to attend this session please email r.bradfield@ucc.ie or phone 3971 as places are limited. There will be future sessions for anyone unable to attend on the 15th December.
The SPIE Digital Library is the most extensive resource available on optics and photonics, providing unprecedented access to more than 260,000 technical papers from SPIE Journals and Conference Proceedings from 1990 to the present. More than 17,000 new research papers are added annually.
SPIE DL is hosted by the American Institute of Physics (AIP) as part of its Scitation platform.
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Library Support for the College of Science, Engineering, and Food Science, University College Cork, Ireland. SEFS collections are located on the first floor , Q+1, of the Boole Library. Area contains Dewey range 500 - 699 as well as 000-099.
