2010 Update - March 22nd

IVRLA is pleased to announce that 17 of our collections are available through Europeana.

Europeana is a Thematic Network funded by the European Commission under the eContentplus programme, as part of the i2010 policy. Originally known as the European digital library network – EDLnet –  it is a partnership of 100 representatives of heritage and knowledge organisations and IT experts from throughout Europe. They contribute to the Work Packages that are solving the technical and usability issues.

The project is run by a core team based in the national library of the Netherlands, the Koninklijke Bibliotheek. It builds on the project management and technical expertise developed by The European Library, which is a service of the Conference of European National Librarians. (Accessed: 22nd March 2010.  http://www.europeana.org/portal/aboutus.html)

IVRLA Collections currently available through Europeana

1.           Boehm/Casement Correspondence
2.           Beranger Watercolours at UCD Library
3.           Schools’ Manuscript Collection: Carna & Ballinasloe, Co. Galway
4.           UCD Ephemera Collection
5.           Folklore Photograph Collection
6.           Historic Maps Collection
7.           Papers of Michael Collins
8.           UCD Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute Monograph Collection
9.           Papers of Eugene O’Curry
10.           John O’Donovan/William Reeves Correspondence
11.           Colm Ó Lochlainn Collection – Ballads
12.           UCD Letters
13.           Papers of Françoise Henry
14.           Papers of Dr William Frazer
15.           Geological Survey Maps Collection
16.           Schools’ Manuscript Collection - My Home District
17.           Luke Wadding Papers

IVRLA Events 2009

17th November 2009
Digitising humanities and social sciences: promises, paradoxes and problems
Speaker: Professor Sally Wyatt, Digital Cultures in Development, University of Maastricht


Time and Location: 5pm in room H204, second floor, UCD Humanities Institute of Ireland,(building number 43, grid ref F9 on the UCD Campus Map), Belfield, Dublin 4.
RSVP: hii@ucd.ie or 01-7164690


20th November 2009
International Crosscurrents in 20th Century Irish Poetry
Speakers: Lucy Collins (UCD - Chair),
Peter Denman (NUIM): “Theme, Version and Form: Ciaran Carson’s Translations”, Eileán Ní Chuilleanáin (TCD): “A Hare-brained Idea? Researching Poetry Translation into Irish”, Vincent Woods (RTE): “Travel Notes: Pearse Hutchinson and European Identities”


Time and Location: 3pm in room H204, second floor, UCD Humanities Institute of Ireland, (building number 43, grid ref F9 on the UCD Campus Map), Belfield, Dublin 4
RSVP: borbala.farago@ucd.ie

5th December 2009
Irish Children’s Literature and Culture Symposium
Speakers: Mary Shine Thompson, Valerie Coghlan, Celia Keenan, Éilis Ní Dhuibhne, Patricia Kennon, Ciara Ní Bhroin, Susan Cahill, and Oisín McGann.

Time and Location: 10am-4pm in Room H204, second floor, UCD Humanities Institute of Ireland (building number 43, grid ref F9 on the UCD Campus Map), Belfield, Dublin 4
RSVP: susan.cahill@ucd.ie

November 2009

The IVRLA has entered a very exciting, yet uncertain, period in its project life-cycle. The core collections are almost complete. New research collections are being generated. And much brain-power is being harvested for the last leg of the project.

Final completion date of IVRLA 1.0: 31st December 2009

Potentially this month we'll be launching up to 6 new core collections. Stay tuned.

We're developing an exciting new research area with 15 show-case research projects and we'll have more information about these new projects on the information website shortly.

There will be a series of IVRLA events over the coming weeks. More details to follow.

And the IVRLA will be changing its look before the end of the year - exciting times ahead.

Check out the repository for new collections - UCD Ephemera Collection, Papers of Michael Collins, and Folklore Photograph Collection have all been added since the last post.

And a very warm, albeit belated, welcome to Dr Dervila Layden (Research Coordinator), Katie Moten (Digitisation Assistant) and Joe Lakes (IT Support) who have recently joined the team.

Busy times ahead...

Long overdue update!

The IVRLA has been incredibly busy since the last update, with many staff changes and some new collections online. A lot of exciting developments have been going on behind the scenes and we hope to share some of that with you over the coming months.

New collections online:

• Schools' Manuscript Collection - Carna & Ballinasloe, Co. Galway (National Folklore Collection)
  
• John O'Donovan/William Reeves Coorespondence (Special Collections, UCD Library)
  
• Boehm/Casement Papers (UCD Archives)
  
• Papers of James Meenan - UCD Move to Belfield (UCD Archives)
  

Check out these new collections in the repository

Staff changes
We'd like to wish a fond farewell to Adele Cocchiglia (cataloguer), Christoph Schmidt-Supprian (cataloguer) and Ranju Upadhyay (IT) who left us in 2008. And we'd like to extend a warm well to Alan Leary (IT), Antoinette Doran (cataloguer) and Robert McEvoy (cataloguer) who have joined us over the past year.

Launch
We will be launching the UCD Ephemera Collection from Special Collections, UCD Library, on Friday 7th August 2009. Stay tuned for this beautiful new collection.

Transformations: How Research is Changing Ireland

The IVRLA would like to invite all members of the public to visit the IVRLA exhibition stand and meet with staff members and view the repository in action in the Science Gallery, Trinity College Dublin, from Thursday 27th November 2008 until Tuesday 2nd December 2008.

The Transformations Exhibition is part of the PRTLI 10 celebrations and book launch, which mark the 10th anniversary of the PRTLI funding initiative.

The Exhibition area will be open at the following times:
# Thursday 27th November 1pm - 6pm
# Friday 28th November 10am - 7pm
# Saturday 29th November 10am - 6pm
# Sunday 30th November 11am - 6pm
# Monday 1st December 10am - 6pm
# Tuesday 2nd December 10am - 4pm

All are very welcome.

Further information is available on the HEA website here.

IVRLA, PRTLI 10 and the UCD Research Trail

The Irish Virtual Research Library & Archive (IVRLA) would like to invite UCD staff, students, and other interested members to visit the IVRLA Roadshow on Level 2 of the James Joyce Library. We will be around the corner from the Level 2 Information Desk on Friday afternoon, 14th of November until the 21st of November 2008.

The Roadshow is part of the UCD Research Trail, which aims to show-case the PRTLI-funded projects in UCD, in the run up to the 10th Anniversary celebrations of the PRTLI(Programme for Research in Third-Level Institutions), which will begin on November 27th in the Science Gallery in Trinity College, Dublin.

Please feel free to talk to staff about the project, take a leaflet and postcard, and to request a brief demonstration. Please note that the Roadshow may not be attended at all times, but we will leave a schedule of when we will be available.

All are very welcome.

Further information about the IVRLA and our contact details can be found at http://www.ucd.ie/ivrla

Many thanks to the James Joyce Library, UCD, and the various individuals who were instrumental in making this Roadshow possible.

IVRLA Updates

A few staff changes to announce this year.

Joseph Greene (metadata librarian) left the IVRLA and took up a new position in UCD Library in January 2008, and the IVRLA Project recruited two new metadata librarians in April 2008. Our two newbies are Daniel Montes, transferring from UCD Library, and Christoph Schmidt-Supprian, transferring from TCD Library. Welcome to both, and best of luck to Joseph!

We would also like to extend our best wishes to John McDonough, former IVRLA project manager, who took up his new position in the Oireachtas Library this month. Best of luck to John!

Stay tuned for further staff announcements in the future!

Also, we will have new collections available shortly in the Repository, so watch this space.

2008 is here

Well theres a lot to catch up on but that will require a later post...

for now, just to advise people that the djvu reader for Mac OS X, the default delivery format for the IVRLA has been updated and can be accessed at:

http://djvu.org/news/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1194679403&archive=&start_from=&ucat=&