Online Services
Library Catalog
This gives access to the online catalogue allowing members to search and view or reserve items. To view the catalogue simply click on the link Search the Catalog. In My Account, information about current library tranactions can be viewed or checked out materials can be renewed. Your Library User I.D Number and Personal Identification Number (PIN) are required to use this section. They can be obtained from a member of staff at any time.
Clipper Audio Books
Once registered as a current member you will need to remember your unique user name and password to access this resource. You can then access this service from any computer (library or home) and proceed to download the relevant material required.
Please visit http://www.netlibrary.com/ to use this service.
(This Service will be available by early summer 2011, please contact Sligo Library staff for more details.)JSTOR
JSTOR is a not–for–profit service that offers a high-quality, interdisciplinary archive to support scholarship and teaching. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. It includes archives of over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. The entire corpus is full-text searchable, offers search term highlighting, includes high-quality images, and is interlinked by millions of citations and references. Please click on the image/icon above to use this service.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Online
This is a new edition of Britannica OnLine with (BOL) with many enhancements based on the School Edition so has lots of features useful to children and students. The Student version covers the same group as World Book, namely teenagers ages 12 - 18, and here you have the advantage of one below it, Britannica Junior aimed at ages 5 - 11, and one above it, Encyclopaedia Britannica, which has all the advanced features of the Academic Edition of BOL as used by many businesses and universities. Please click on the appropriate image/icon above to use this service.
LexisNexis Database - Public Library Information Services
LexisNexis® is a leading global provider of content-enabled workflow solutions designed specifically for the legal, risk management, corporate, government, law enforcement, accounting, and academic markets. Across the globe, LexisNexis provides customers with access to five billion searchable documents from more than 40,000 legal, news and business sources. This Database can only be accessed from Public Computers on the library network. Please click on the image/icon above to use this service.
Vision-Net Database
Vision-Net gives you immediate web access to the original documents as filed in the Irish Companies Registration Office. With Vision-Net you can view and print the actual scanned images of Audited Company Accounts, Changes in Directors, Allotments of Shares, Mortgages or Charges and all recent documents filed in the C.R.O. This Database can only be accessed from Public Computers on the library network. Please click on the image/icon above to use this service.
Irish Times Digital Archive
The Irish Times Digital archive contains exact reproductions of all articles published by the Irish Times from 1859 onwards up to present day. Because of the workload involved in reproducing daily editions in digitized formats and uploading them to the site, you may find that the previous week’s daily editions (from the current date) are inaccessible. As such this database is primarily to be used for research purposes. This Database can only be accessed from Public Computers on the library network. Please click on the image/icon above to use this service.
