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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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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The Clean Sweep – It’s the Final Countdown!

by Bean an Phoist on October 6, 2011 · 1 comment

in Collections,Conservation,Projects,Rare books

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 [...]

Tagged as: Books, British Museum, Charles Mackay, Clean Sweep, Cleaning, Conservation, Dr. Jaspar Robert Joly, Geoffrey Gambado, Joly Collection, Nikki Ralston, Projects, R.D.S., Rare book team, Rare books, René Descartes, Royal Dublin Society, Tours, Trustees' Room, Watts Phillips