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.