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Details on admission requirements, opening hours, borrowing rights, and access to the Library’s catalogues and databases can be found at the Library website.
Visitors wishing to see the Book of Kells and the Long Room may visit the Book of Kells website.
The Berkeley Library Front Door has reopened today, December 16th, to give access from the Fellows’ Square and ramp. Access from the main steps will shortly be available, but it will be some time before the ramp leading from College Park is open, as it has to be adapted to meet modern access standards.
Admissions services are available at the Admissions Desk, Berkeley Library.
To mark the 350th anniversary of the publication of Robert Boyle’s The Sceptical Chymist (London, 1661), the Edward Worth Library, which is affiliated to TCD, has produced an online exhibition on the theme of ‘Alchemy and Chemistry in the Edward Worth Library’. See it here.
A new book drop facility for LEN and Open Access books has been introduced for periods when the BLU libraries are open but the Service Counter is unstaffed (Monday-Thursday 09:00-09:30 and 19:45 onwards, Friday 09:00-09:30 and 16:45 onwards)
Please note that material deposited in the evenings will not be processed until at least 10:00 the following morning; the material is not deemed returned until processed. Therefore fines (if applicable) will continue to accrue until the item is checked in.
ASR (Automated Stack Requests) and Counter Reserve items for use solely in the Library must still be returned before the Service Counter closes. Hourly fines will accrue.
New undergraduates might like to head over to our Video Guides page and have a quick introduction to the three main Library complexes at TCD. Each video is around five minutes long; play the small version on the Video Guides page or click on a video to be able to choose a higher resolution on the YouTube site. The resolution may also be changed if playing in full screen mode.
12 October 2011 to 1 April 2012
Long Room, Trinity College Library
Under Louis XIV France became the most powerful land power in Western Europe. Considerable territorial expansion was achieved through a series of wars which were hugely expensive in lives and money. By the end of the reign in 1715 the state was almost bankrupt.
Despite the warfare, there were immense cultural achievements: in drama the works of Corneille, Molière and Racine; in architecture the building of the palace of Versailles; in music, the operas of Lully. In common with many other countries, there was repressive legislation against religious non-conformists who in France were the Huguenots. This culminated in 1685 in the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes of 1598 which had granted limited toleration.
This exhibition looks at various aspects of French life in the seventeenth century including taxation, warfare, trade and religion. The exhibition is entirely drawn from the very rich visual and textual resources of Trinity College Library which has the finest collection of seventeenth-century French books in Ireland.
An explanatory leaflet (PDF 1.42MB) is available.
New (and old!) users of the Library are often confused by which password to use to access Library material off campus, or renew books etc. The following information is for new members of TCD.
Put simply, your Library password is your NETWORK password – the one you use to logon to a computer in College; this is different from your MyZone password, although they are originally identical. New members of Trinity are given this on a slip of paper when they register.
You MUST change your network password within 14 days of logging into a computer in College. You can change your password using the IS Services’ Password Manager. After that you have to change the password again within 180 days.
If you do not do this you may have to visit IS Services helpdesk in person (they will not reset passwords over the phone etc. for security reasons) with your TCD ID card.
Our admissions’ staff will be at the Lecky entrance to facilitate readers without current TCD cards at 10:00-10:30, 11:30-12:00 and 15:00-15:30 weekdays; be advised that 2010-11 cards will be treated as valid until the end of October. On Saturdays a member of staff will be at the Lecky entrance to facilitate external readers from 09:30 until 12:45.
Berkeley podium – work on the Berkeley Library podium to protect the book stores below, started during August, is unfortunately taking longer than expected, and access to the BLU (Berkeley, Lecky, Ussher complex) across the podium will be restricted until close to Christmas. The podium will be completely closed off this week for about three weeks and access to the BLU will be via the Lecky entrance only. However, when the work is completed, we will have ensured the protection of Library materials stored below.
Formerly known as the “Library Catalogue”.
For those looking for a more traditional interface we would suggest using the Classic Catalogue rather than Stella Search. Its initial search screen allows you to submit queries under Keyword, Author, Title and Subject and to search across all our collections.
For more structured queries we recommend the Advanced Search option. This will enable you to limit by Library Location, Format, Language, Year of Publication, and Publisher. You can make use of multiple Boolean operators and pre-sort your results by Date, Relevance, or Title.
You can also e-mail records and save preferred searches to your Library Account, which is accessible from both the Catalogue and the Library Website.
Formally known as the “Stella Catalogue.”
Stella Search is an innovative way to find materials in the Library’s collections. It functions like a search engine, so you do not need to search by title, author or subject. On the Library homepage, simply type what you are looking for in the search box on the left-hand side in the page header under Stella Search and click Search. Stella will return a list of items and using “Refine by” you can narrow down your results by format, collection, date published etc.
You can visit Stella directly at http://stella.catalogue.tcd.ie.
The university libraries of Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin and the National Library of Ireland today (19 August 2011) announced plans to jointly develop a shared facility to accommodate the urgent storage needs of their collections, as well as the longer-term needs of Irish research libraries in general.
The new facility would accommodate vast collections of books, manuscripts, maps, audio recordings, early printed books and other valuable materials of historical and cultural value which are currently at risk due to inadequate or inappropriate storage space.
“Storage space for our collections has reached crisis point in the country’s major research libraries, TCD and UCD, and in the National Library of Ireland,” explained UCD Librarian John Howard, speaking at today’s announcement. Fiona Ross, Director of the National Library, added: “The National Library of Ireland’s National Collection is at imminent risk of damage and destruction due to unsuitable conditions in storage areas in the Library’s Kildare Street and Temple Bar sites.”
“Trinity College Library’s current Book Repository contains over two million books and has been at full capacity for some time. Its environmental controls fall well below those required to preserve such collections of material, which are deteriorating rapidly,” noted Robin Adams, Trinity College Dublin Librarian and College Archivist.
The libraries are also pleased to announce financial support for their planning effort from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, a private philanthropy based in New York. The award (US $50,000) has been made to UCD to support the efforts of the three libraries. “We are grateful for the Mellon Foundation’s recognition of our commitment to preserve the nation’s knowledge resources and documentary cultural heritage materials,” stated John Howard. Fiona Ross said: “This support for planning to sustain our resources is a signal that our plans, while they serve national concerns, have both international interest and impact.”
Taken from the TCD Communications Office.
If you use Firefox or Chrome to browse the web, you can now install this plugin to search our Stella catalogue directly without going to a Library site.
Installation is as simple as clicking on “Trinity College Library Dublin” on the linked page while within the relevant browser. In Chrome, if you give the plugin a keyword on installation (such as TCD), typing this in the address bar with your query will automatically search the catalogue.
Transport, Tourism and Sport Minister Leo Varadkar and Minister of State for Tourism and Sport, Michael Ring announced an allocation of €2.7 million in funding for the exhibition of the Book of Kells, in order to improve public access to the precious manuscript and the overall visitor experience. The funding was part of an allocation of €6 million to tourism projects in Ireland.
The Ministers announced the funding in the Old Library, Trinity College. Minister Varadkar said the funding highlights the Government’s commitment to improving the quality of Irish tourist attractions so that Ireland can compete with the wide array of choice tourists are offered internationally. Such investment will help to sustain and create jobs in the tourism sector and get Ireland back to growth. The funding, from Fáilte Ireland’s Tourism Capital Investment Programme, has been allocated to four projects across the country.
Welcoming news of the funding, Trinity College Librarian, Robin Adams said: “I am delighted that the generous grant from the Failte Ireland Tourism Capital Investment Programme will enable us to provide greatly enhanced access and understanding for the many visitors to the Book of Kells and the Library’s other great treasures, and to ensure that the iconic Old Library can be shared with the public as well as functioning as one of the world’s great research libraries.”
Other tourism projects which received funding were Garnish Island – €2.4 million; Killarney Downhill Mountain Bike Trail – €430,353; and Lough Rynn Infrastructure – €212,250.
http://www.tcd.ie/Communications/news/news.php?headerID=1972&vs_date=2011-7-1
View a video clip of the Royal Visit to Trinity College Dublin, The Book of Kells and the Long Room Library provided by RTE: http://www.rte.ie/news/av/2011/0517/media-2960338.html.
On 30th March 2011 the College was advised that a file containing student and staff names, addresses, ID numbers and email addresses, which had been provided to the Library, was inadvertently made accessible on the local College network between August 2009 until March 2011. This information was not accessible through the internet and the College has no reason to believe that your privacy was compromised. For your security, we encourage you to be aware of email scams that ask for personal or sensitive information.
In line with Data Protection legislation the College has reported this incident to the Data Protection Commissioner. We regret that this incident has taken place and for any inconvenience this may have caused you. The College takes its obligation to protect your data very seriously, and we will continue to work diligently to protect your personal information.
Robin Adams, Librarian
The UK Legal Deposit Libraries (including Trinity College Library Dublin) have welcomed the UK Government’s response to the public consultation on the ‘draft regulations and guidance for non-print legal deposit’ and its commitment to deliver regulations for non-print content.
In particular, the UK Legal Deposit Libraries welcome the UK Government’s move to regulate on:
- The deposit of works on CD-ROM and other offline media;
- The harvesting of online content, which will allow a great deal of material and most UK websites to be archived and thus avoid a digital black hole; and
- Agreements with publishers for depositing the published digital equivalent of printed works in place of depositing the printed version. This, in the long term, will enable the Legal Deposit Libraries and the publishing sector to reduce costs.
The Legal Deposit Libraries will support the UK Government and work with the publishing industry to achieve these aims as well as provide any additional information required to ensure the success of these regulations.
In addition, the Libraries will work with the publishing industry to resolve any technical concerns and identify the true costs and public benefit of regulating on other methods of delivery. It is hoped that it will be possible to extend the regulations to cover such methods within a few years.
Notes
The British Library, The National Library of Scotland, The National Library of Wales, Bodleian Library Oxford, Cambridge University Library and Trinity College Dublin.
Robin Adams, Librarian and College Archivist
7 April 2011
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The website provides a fully searchable digital edition of the 1641 Depositions at Trinity College Dublin Library, comprising transcripts and images of all 8,000 depositions, examinations and associated materials in which Protestant men and women of all classes told of their experiences following the outbreak of the rebellion by the Catholic Irish in October, 1641.
About the Depositions
The 1641 Depositions (Trinity College Dublin, MSS 809-841) are witness testimonies mainly by Protestants, but also by some Catholics, from all social backgrounds, concerning their experiences of the 1641 Irish rebellion. The testimonies document the loss of goods, military activity, and the alleged crimes committed by the Irish insurgents, including assault, stripping, imprisonment and murder. This body of material is unparalleled anywhere in early modern Europe, and provides a unique source of information for the causes and events surrounding the 1641 rebellion and for the social, economic, cultural, religious, and political history of seventeenth-century Ireland, England and Scotland. Learn more about the Depositions and the project at http://1641.tcd.ie
Details on the TCD News page…
