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		<title>Pettyfoggers and Vipers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2012 14:39:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bean an Phoist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Sean Smith, Researcher at our &#8220;Palace to Procrastination&#8221; Lawyers and the legal profession, where would we be without them? If it wasn’t for them we wouldn’t have Dickens’ Bleak House and the interminable case of Jarndyce v Jarndyce. We wouldn’t have the on-going, lengthy and costly tribunals and we wouldn’t have the colourful carnival [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.nli.ie/blog/index.php/2012/11/16/pettyfoggers-and-vipers/' addthis:title='Pettyfoggers and Vipers ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Do not try this at home</title>
		<link>http://www.nli.ie/blog/index.php/2012/02/23/do-not-try-this-at-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bean an Phoist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Aoife O Connor, co-curator of Particles of the Past exhibition In deciding what to put into our Discover: Particles of the Past exhibition for Dublin City of Science 2012, Robert Boyle was top of the list. We have an excellent collection of his published works and he’s a well known and important figure in [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.nli.ie/blog/index.php/2012/02/23/do-not-try-this-at-home/' addthis:title='Do not try this at home ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Always judge a book by its cover</title>
		<link>http://www.nli.ie/blog/index.php/2011/12/22/always-judge-a-book-by-its-cover/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bean an Phoist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Elodie Leveque &#38; Louise O&#8217;Connor, Conservation Conservators love knowing how a book was put together, and recently, we had the opportunity to examine a very interesting item. Despite being in good condition, the book needed some minor conservation treatment. But first, by closely examining the binding and the inner structure normally hidden from our [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.nli.ie/blog/index.php/2011/12/22/always-judge-a-book-by-its-cover/' addthis:title='Always judge a book by its cover ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>The British and Colonial Druggist</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:12:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bean an Phoist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Inez J Fletcher, Cataloguer &#038; Director of Irish ISSN Centre Cataloguers come across a very wide variety of publications in the course of their regular work, but I mostly catalogue contemporary periodicals. However, recently I was asked to catalogue a run of eight volumes for the period January 1889 to December 1892 of The [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.nli.ie/blog/index.php/2011/12/01/the-british-and-colonial-druggist/' addthis:title='The British and Colonial Druggist ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>The Clean Sweep &#8211; It&#8217;s the Final Countdown!</title>
		<link>http://www.nli.ie/blog/index.php/2011/10/06/the-clean-sweep-its-the-final-countdown/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:38:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bean an Phoist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Nikki Ralston, Conservation Back in July 2011, I posted a short blog introducing The Clean Sweep, a preservation project aiming to clean and box our rare book collections. We have now started the final phase of the project, which will run to the end of 2011, and I thought that readers might be interested [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.nli.ie/blog/index.php/2011/10/06/the-clean-sweep-its-the-final-countdown/' addthis:title='The Clean Sweep &#8211; It&#8217;s the Final Countdown! ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>The Art of Scribbling</title>
		<link>http://www.nli.ie/blog/index.php/2011/08/19/the-art-of-scribbling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 13:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bean an Phoist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Giada Gelli, Preservation Assistant We have all done some scribbling on copies, books, magazines and whatnot at some stage in our lives. There is nothing more pleasant than evading the realms of reality, shutting your ears to the world, and letting your pen (or pencil!) chase the boredom away. But still, I wasn&#8217;t expecting [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.nli.ie/blog/index.php/2011/08/19/the-art-of-scribbling/' addthis:title='The Art of Scribbling ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t link yourself with vulgar folks</title>
		<link>http://www.nli.ie/blog/index.php/2011/08/17/dont-link-yourself-with-vulgar-folks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 12:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bean an Phoist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Fiona Noonan, Preservation Assistant We are all drawn to books for different reasons &#8211; Stories, Authors, Illustrations and Bindings. So, when those of us working on The Clean Sweep Project were asked to write posts for the NLI Blog on books that stood out for us, I immediately made a mental list of the [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.nli.ie/blog/index.php/2011/08/17/dont-link-yourself-with-vulgar-folks/' addthis:title='Don&#8217;t link yourself with vulgar folks ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>The Clean Sweep</title>
		<link>http://www.nli.ie/blog/index.php/2011/07/11/the-clean-sweep/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 11:08:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bean an Phoist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Nikki Ralston, Conservation Regular visitors may have wondered about what&#8217;s been going on in our Trustees&#8217; Room in recent weeks &#8211; that&#8217;s the room to the left of our main hall. Comings, goings and that funny noise&#8230; Well, from 2 to 4.30 this afternoon, and every weekday afternoon, you can see for yourself. Our [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.nli.ie/blog/index.php/2011/07/11/the-clean-sweep/' addthis:title='The Clean Sweep ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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