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Also incorporating the Long Room, the Old Library is one of Ireland's biggest tourist attractions and holds thousands of rare, and in many cases very early, volumes. In the 18th century, the college received the Brian Boru harp, one of the three surviving medieval Gaelic harps, and a national symbol of Ireland, which is now housed in the Library.
Library Association of Ireland; M. Midleton Library; P. Public Libraries (Ireland) Act 1902; R. Russell Library (St Patrick's College) W. Waterford City Library
Bideford Library, Devon, England, built 1905 This is an incomplete list of Carnegie libraries in Europe. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items. (February 2011) Belgium The University Library, Leuven, Belgium The University Library, Leuven, after fire damage in the First World War A Carnegie library was built in the 1920s for the University of Leuven to replace a ...
Research Libraries UK (RLUK) (formerly CURL) [1] comprises 35 university libraries, 3 national libraries, and the Wellcome Collection in the United Kingdom and Ireland. [2] Its aim is to increase the ability of research libraries to share resources among themselves.
Dublin City Libraries is the public library service for Dublin, Ireland. It is largest library authority in the Republic of Ireland, serving over half a million people [1] and around 2.6 million visits annually [2] through a network of 21 branch libraries and a number of specialist services. [3]
The Short Loan collection in the James Joyce library and the entire stock of the Blackrock and Veterinary Medicine libraries uses RFID technology. This allows readers to borrow and return books without the assistance of library staff. [citation needed] Opening hours in each of the five UCD libraries vary throughout the year. [21]
The Library is now run by Northern Ireland Libraries, a public authority covering the whole of Northern Ireland. [2] Belfast Central Library houses a range of sections, including a lending library & Information and Business library still based in the original reading room. A Belfast, Ulster and Irish Department & Music Library on the top floor.
On 28 October 1928, the Library Service Branch of the Irish Local Government Officials’ Union held an Irish Library Conference at the Mansion House in Dublin, and at this conference, the Library Association of Ireland was founded. The first President of the LAI (from 1929 to 1930) was Dr Robert Lloyd Praeger.