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5.2 million reasons to do a stock check
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,...
Science in the library: observing historic manuscripts, part 1
Post by Heraldic collection conservator Louise O’Connor All organic materials degrade. Historic manuscripts are handmade, unique artefacts combining parchment, paper, animal glues, pigments, inks,...
Filming & Recording
Error 404? The horror, The horror!
Have your say on Web Archiving at the National Library of Ireland by Catherine Ryan, Digital Collections Student While it probably hasn’t quite made it into the Oxford English dictionary yet, the...
Let's Get Political ... The NLI's Web Archive
by Maria Ryan, Web Archivist. This week marks six years since the National Library of Ireland (NLI) began collecting and archiving websites. It is also six years since the 2011 General Election and...
An Irish sheep tale - 700 year-old parchments conserved
by Élodie Lévêque, Project Conservator An extraordinary manuscript collection; the Ormond Collection has been called the ‘most important Anglo-Norman family archive in Ireland’. It...
UCD donates limited edition book 'Grief's Broken Brow'
Web archiving: The National Ploughing Championship
General Election 2011 Web Archiving
by Catherine Ryan, Digital Collections Student & Maria O’Shea, Manuscript Student Here at the National Library we try to collect as much as we can that might not otherwise be collected and...
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