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Trinity College Library
Location Dublin, Ireland
Date 1732
Architect Thomas Burgh
Type of library University Library
website address http://www.tcd.ie/Library/
Local Name
Trinity College Library
Visiting Address
College Street, Dublin 2, Ireland
Opening Hours
Monday - Saturday 09.30 - 17.00
Sunday (Oct. - May) 12.00 - 16.30 (June - Sept.) 09.30 - 16.30
Brief History
Trinity College was founded in 1592, and the library shortly after.
The original library building is no longer in existence.
The Library has 3 functions - it's a University Library; an
international research library, with legal deposit status for the UK
(since 1801) and Ireland (since 1922); and it's a provider of
information services to Irish government departments, business
and commerce.
Today's Old Library opened in 1732. It contains the departments
of Early Printed Books and Special Collections, Manuscripts, the
Conservation Laboratory, and the public areas. These include the
Long Room (see photograph). A gallery runs round the Long
Room, which is 70 yards (63metres) long and 13 yards (12 meters)
wide. The original flat ceiling, in danger of collapse, was replaced
with a barrel vaulted ceiling in 1861.
Several additional buildings were added in the 20th century, and
the new Ussher Library opened in 2002, providing a further 750
wired reader places, and doubling the number of books on open
access.
Special Interest
The Library contains 4.25 million volumes, 30,000 current serials,
and a significant collection of manuscripts. The most famous of
these is the Book of Kells, an early Christian manuscript, which has
a Latin text of the 4 gospels, and was richly decorated by Irish
monks in about 800 A.D.
Other holdings include the earliest Irish book, the Abidil gaoidheilge
agus caiticosma (1571), and a collection of Samuel Beckett works.
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