Cataloguing

We love…

by Bean an Phoist on February 14, 2012 · 2 comments

in Cataloguing,Collections,Digital Collections,Manuscripts,Prints & Drawings

Bean an Phoist says: A few weeks ago, I asked NLI staff to pick things they love in our collections (maybe also about love) and to write about them for Valentine’s Day. Those who weren’t nimble enough to avoid me since then, are included here. And there will be two other posts today – Honora [...]

Tagged as: Della Murphy, Dragon, Emma Lyons, Giada Gelli, Katherine McSharry, Leonie Jerome, Leslie Papers, Love Letter, O'Casey's Codex, Rosamond Praeger, Sean O'Casey, Sir John Leslie, TheJournal.ie, Web Archiving

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New Adventures in Periodicals

by Bean an Phoist on January 18, 2012 · 3 comments

in Acquisitions,Cataloguing,Periodicals,Projects

by Justin Furlong, Periodicals/Newspapers Librarian Library users often only get to interact with staff in our various Reading Rooms and may be unaware of the many behind the scenes projects that are taking place. With this thought in mind I felt it would be useful to detail some of the developments currently happening in the [...]

Tagged as: Acquisitions, British and Colonial Druggist, Ceased Title Project, Electoral Registers, Inez J Fletcher, Irish Chemist and Druggist, Journals, Justin Furlong, Magazines, Meatmatter, Metalworks, Minor Mag, Online Check-in, Periodicals, Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland, Projects, RTE Guide, Spotter, The Yoke

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How It Is – The Beckett Clodd Collection

by Bean an Phoist on December 19, 2011 · 8 comments

in Acquisitions,Cataloguing,Collections,Conservation,Printed books

by Máire Ní Chonalláin, Assistant Keeper II The Samuel Beckett Collection which belonged to the author’s London bookseller friend, Alan Clodd, has been catalogued. We were fortunate enough to acquire this collection in 2006. The private collection of the Nobel prize-winner’s work is highly regarded as it contains virtually all of Beckett’s works in first [...]

Tagged as: Alan Clodd, Beckett Clodd Collection, Bookseller, Calder & Boyers, Critique, Dublin, École Normale Supérieur, Enitharmon Press, First editions, Galley proofs, Grove Press, J. & W. Beckett, James Joyce, Les Éditions de Minuit, Les Lettres Nouvelles, Les Temps Modernes, Máire Ní Chonalláin, National Library of Ireland, National Museum of Ireland, Nobel Laureate, Paris, Portora Royal School, Proof copies, Résistance, Samuel Beckett, Samuel Beckett Collection, South King Street, Thomas McGreevy, Transition, Trinity College Dublin, William Beckett