Projects

Welcome to Your NLI

by Bean an Phoist on November 1, 2012 · 2 comments

by Nikki Ralston, Exhibitions Our new Front Hall display proudly says “Welcome to Your NLI”, not the NLI or our NLI but Yours. After all, as a public collection the National Library of Ireland does belong to all, it’s Ours. Perhaps you already had a sense of this public ownership, but had you thought about [...]

Tagged as: Exhibitions, Gerald of Wales, Giraldus Cambrensis, Nikki Ralston, Projects, Topographia Hiberniae, Your NLI

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5.2 million reasons to do a stock check

by Bean an Phoist on October 5, 2012 · 1 comment

in Collections,Exhibitions,NLI Staff,Photographs,Projects

by Nora-Jane Thornton, National Photographic Archive When asked if I would like to relocate from our Manuscript Department to the National Photographic Archive in Meeting House Square in Temple Bar, I was excited by the prospect, and when I heard that the work would involve a thorough stock check of our photographic collections, I was [...]

Tagged as: Ambrotypes, Barbara Bonini, British Library, Cellulose Acetate Film, Colette O'Flaherty, Conservation, Daguerreotypes, Elizabeth Kirwan, Flickr Commons, Glass Negatives, Glynis Pickett, Independent Newspapers (Ireland) Collection, Joanna Finegan, John Joly, Joly Colour Process, Keith Murphy, Lantern Slides, Library Management System, LMS, Maria O'Shea, Matthew Cains, National Photographic Archive, Negatives, Nitrate Film, Nitrocellulose Film, Nora-Jane Thornton, NPA, O'Carroll Collection, Photographs, Preservation, Safety Film, Stock Check, Taking Stock, Tintypes, Vinegar Syndrome, Virtua

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The Freeman’s Journal

by Bean an Phoist on August 21, 2012 · 5 comments

in Guest Bloggers,Newspapers,Prints & Drawings,Projects

Intro by Justin Furlong, NLI Newspaper Librarian This is the third in a series of blogs connected to a joint project (Newspaper Descriptors Project) by the National Library of Ireland and the Newspaper & Periodical History Forum of Ireland (NPHFI). The project hopes to provide short descriptors or pen notes for the newspaper titles listed [...]

Tagged as: Charles Stewart Parnell, Ernest Forbes, Felix M. Larkin, Freeman, Freeman's Journal, Irish Daily Independent, Irish Independent, Irish Parliamentary Party, Justin Furlong, National Press, Newspaper & Periodical History Forum of Ireland, Newspaper Descriptors Project, Newspapers, NPHFI, Phil Blake, Public Register, Shemus, Sir John Gray, The Lepracaun, Thomas Fitzpatrick, Weekly Freeman, Weekly Freeman & National Press