Reading Room, National Photographic Archive
Access to the NPA Reading Room is by appointment only on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. Readers who wish to make an appointment should contact the NPA staff by phone on 01 6030370 or 01 6030374; or email npaoffice@nli.ie
The Reading Room is located on the ground floor of the National Photographic Archive and provides seating for 10 readers. You do not require a Reader's Ticket. The Library Assistant on duty in the Reading Room will assist you in searching for information about the photographic collections.
While the photographs are held in areas closed to the public, a range of reference works, collection indexes and surrogate copies are available in the Reading Room.
Services provided in the Reading Room include:
- Reference assistance
- Digitised images of photographs
- Surrogate images for some of the print collections
- Microfilm for much of the Lawrence collection
- General reference sources on photographs
- Online access to consult the photographs that have been catalogued and digitised to date onto the Horizon system
- Collection indexes