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The mission of IADT Library is to support the teaching, learning and research activities of the Institute. The Library offers a wide range of seamless, high-quality, integrated information services, as well as a comprehensive print collection. The professional Library staff offer expert support to students and staff in the use of all resources and services.

Opening Hours

Below are our opening hours for Reading + Research week. Normal opening hours will resume from Monday 2nd November.

Monday 26th October Closed (Bank Holiday)
Tuesday 9:00 - 19:00
Wednesday 9:00 - 19:00
Thursday 9:00 - 19:00
Friday 9:00 - 17:00
Saturday 24th + 31st October Closed (Bank Holiday)
Sunday Closed
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eBooks can no longer be found using the main library search bar above. Instead, please go to Our Collections and click the link to the eBooks website and search there for eBooks. This video shows you how to get to the eBooks website. We recently upgraded our eBook collection from 200,00 titles to over 750,000 titles.
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The Animation Showcase is an international animation-focused strategy agency, screening programme and industry platform dedicated to identifying, curating and promoting outstanding work from across the animation sector. Its activities connect animation talent and creative work with professional audiences, studios, industry organisations and the wider international animation community. Access organised thanks to Rachel Fitzgerald, Assistant Lecturer in Animation.

Student Spotlight is a new exhibition giving all IADT students a chance to showcase their creative work, from photography and design to poetry, animation, and model making. Click here to find out more and submit your work, or visit library.iadt.ie/spotlight
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IADT passwords need to be reset every 90 days, even if they still work for email or the Hub. Also, if you see a "username cannot be identified" error, it’s usually just an expired password - resetting it, clearing browser cookies, and avoiding autofill should fix the issue. Click here to change your password using your Microsoft account.

REFERENCING

Click here to be brought to the official IADT referencing guides. We give you in-depth examples of how to reference using one of the 5 styles: APA, Chicago, Harvard, MHRA, MLA.
Help + support

Click here to learn how to search the Library! We have a video explaining how to search as well as written tips + tricks.

Please note we will be closed the Saturday of Bank Holiday weekends, Bank Holiday Mondays, and any other public holidays (such as St. Patrick's Day etc).
RESEARCH

Our new Institutional Repository, Illustro, has now launched! Click the logo above to access. Illustro is now where our past theses and dissertations can be found, alongside research from the wider IADT community.
library basics

Confused about the Library? Click here to find out everything about the Library including logging in, databases, renewing books, searching the library, using the self-checkouts, and much much more.

OUR COLLECTIONS

eBooks

Click here to access and search for eBooks.

Click here for more information on logging in to the Library.
OUR COLLECTIONS

Print Books

Click here to search the catalogue for print books.
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Guide to Copyright

A guide explaining the aspects of Irish copyright, including what can be uploaded to Blackboard and what can be used in assignments.

Featured publications



Featured publications

2025
Universal methods of ethical design : 100 ways to become more ethically aware, responsible, and active in your design work2025
Cardboard ghosts : using physical games to model and critique systems 2025
Cardboard ghosts : using physical games to model and critique systems2025
The New Racial Regime 2025
The new racial regime : recalibrations of white supremacy2025
Shooting to kill : how an independent producer blasts through the barriers to make movies that matter 2006
Shooting to kill : how an independent producer blasts through the barriers to make movies that matter2006
Could should might don't : how we think about the future 2022
Could should might don't : how we think about the future2022
Model Britain : the architectural models of twentieth century dreams 2025
Model Britain : the architectural models of twentieth century dreams2025
Homeward bound : American families in the Cold War era 2017
Homeward Bound: American Families and the cold war2017
Less than human: why we demean, enslave, and exterminate others 2011
Less than human: why we demean, enslave, and exterminate others2011
Perceptual audio evaluation 2019
Perceptual Audio Evaluation–Theory, Method and Application2019
Women Graphic Designers: rebalancing the cannon 2025
Women Graphic Designers: rebalancing the cannon2025
The AI con 2025
The AI con 2025
Capital’s Grave Neofeudalism and the New Class Struggle 2025
Capital’s Grave Neofeudalism and the New Class Struggle2025
I’m So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now 2024
I’m So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now2024
Blood in the machine : the origins of the rebellion against big tech 2023
Blood in the machine : the origins of the rebellion against big tech2023