This article reports on a pilot library-support service offered to undergraduate Equine Science distance students in University of Limerick. The service, which began in 2001, started as a postal, e-mail and telephone service ...

Software as a Service (SaaS) is becoming increasingly common as a delivery method for many software products. The Glucksman Library at the University of Limerick (UL) was the first university library in Ireland to move ...

The new information and communications technologies (ICTs) have become an indispensable tool for constructing networks and communities of practice, for accessing and managing knowledge, and for disseminating best ...

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Because virtual learning environments (VLEs) are amongst the most widely adopted technologies in higher education, and to justify the widespread investment in VLE technology, it is important to study patterns of actual ...

Objective To develop a set of generic outcome-based performance measures for Irish hospital libraries. Methods Various models and frameworks of performance measurement were used as a theoretical paradigm to link the ...

Over the past decade or so the open education movement has continued to gather momentum in higher education, spurred on by increasing demand for more flexible education options; by the potential of developments in ...

This paper offers an overview of general results and of longitudinal aspects of the data collected to date from student populations which generated from the #VLEIreland project. We argue how results shed light on common ...

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Libraries are spending increasing proportions of their budgets on e-resources and therefore the need to justify these costs is increasing also. This article examines the different methodologies that can be used to measure ...