A College of the National University of Ireland, Galway
Lough Gill, Sligo, Ireland.
Collaborative Links with other Institutions
St. Angela's College and NUI Galway jointly offer the BA(Economic and Social Studies) degree programme in which students spend the first two years at St. Angela's College and their final year at NUI Galway. Students enrolled in this degree course have full access to all library services of the James Hardiman Library at NUI Galway. St. Angela’s College Library is a member of the British Library and utilises it’s Inter-library Loan facility through the British Library Document Supply Centre ( BLDSC). The Library also has inter-library loan arrangements with other Irish third level educational institutions.
The Library is also a member of the Irish Health Care Libraries Group. This group of 54 health board, hospital, nursing, and academic libraries has developed a co-operative interlibrary loan facility which enables access to over 2700 medical, health, and nursing journals.
Close proximity to Sligo General Hospital and its Research and Education Centre Library allows local access to a large, well resourced medical library for nursing students during their final period of clinical placement. The library resources of Cregg House School of Nursing are also available to the nursing students of St. Angela’s College.
The libraries of Institute of Technology, Sligo and St. Angela’s College allow reciprocal student access to the other’s collection on a reference basis without borrowing rights.
Students on post graduate programmes also may participate in the Academic Libraries Cooperating in Ireland (ALCID) scheme which allows access to other Irish university libraries for research purposes