Library & Information Services

Location & Opening Hours

For all staff and students working and studying at the Tallaght Campus

Located on the first floor of the Centre for Learning and Development

Opening Hours

September to May - Monday to Thursday 9am to 5:30pm and 9am to 4pm on Fridays
June to August – Monday to Thursday 9am to 5pm and 9am to 4pm on Fridays
Ruttle Tutorial & Reading Room is the Library’s out-of-hours reading and study space – evenings, overnight and weekends.

Staff can borrow eight books and students can borrow four books

Browse our collection in the online catalogue.  Library Catalogue

Recommend or request a book and we will purchase it for you to borrow

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Library Services

• Fully staffed information desk.
• Computers, printing facilities and bright study space.
• Out-of-hours library-managed study space available when the Library is closed: evenings, overnight and weekends - Ruttle Tutorial and Reading Room beside Ruttle Ward.
• MyAthens account available to all staff to access online resources via a single portal.
• Clinical and Research Databases: Medline/CINAHL/PsycInfo/Embase.
• Management Database: Health Business Elite, which contains the full text of the Harvard Business Review.
• Point-of-Care Diagnostic Decision Support Apps: UpToDate/BMJ Best Practice.
• Visual Diagnostic Support App: VisualDX with DermExpert.
• Royal Marsden Manualof Clinical and Cancer Nursing Procedures online.
• All our online Journals available in the BrowZine App.
• BMJ Case Reports with fellowship code for free publication of case reports.
• BMJ Open Quality Journal with validation code to publish without article processing fees.
• BNF & BNF for Children.
• Renal Drugs Database.
• Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines for Psychiatry online.
• Full-text article supplyservice with 24-hour turnaround.
• Search Skills for Systematic Review – Expert guidance on searching the literature, creating and refining your search strategy and finding the journal articles you need for your systematic review, research project, Masters, PhD, MD, and to support direct patient care.
• SPSS Laptops available to borrow, quarterly statistics workshops.

Specialist Book Collection

• Medicine, Nursing, Health and Social Care Disciplines.
• Health Sciences Research.
• Management, Leadership, Coaching and Mentoring.
• Wellbeing and Self-Help.
• Academic Writing.
• Fiction Collection – All fiction donated by staff for staff.

Description of Department/Service

Tallaght University Hospital Library is a health sciences library open to all Hospital and Psychiatric Unit staff, and Trinity College staff - and some groups of TCD undergraduates & postgraduates - based in the Hospital.

Mission

The Mission of the Library is to provide its diverse user communities with timely access to world-class information resources and a professional advisory service to support direct patient care; evidence-based practice; research, learning and teaching; and management-decision making.

Vision

The Library will be an inspiring and dynamic knowledge environment supporting the Hospital’s mission and values.

Values

The Library embodies the Hospital values of respect for patient autonomy, respect for each other, caring, openness, partnership and teamwork, and fairness and equity. In addition, the Library is committed to librarian values of service, collaboration, innovation and access to information, allied with the medical/clinical values of patient-focus, privacy and confidentiality, and ethics.

Head of Library & Information Services

Jean McMahon, BA, MA Ed, PG Dip ILS

Databases and Journals