Gathered Together: A Survey of the Unique & Distinct Collections Held by CONUL Susie Bioletti | Keeper, Preservation & Conservation | Trinity College Dublin Felicity O’Mahony | Assistant Librarian MAR&L | Trinity College Dublin Elaine Harrington | Special Collections Librarian | University College CONUL – Going Further Together: Collaboration in Irish Academic & Research Libraries 1 June 2016
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Gathered Together: A Survey of the Unique & Distinct Collections Held by CONUL
Susie Bioletti | Keeper, Preservation & Conservation | Trinity College DublinFelicity O’Mahony | Assistant Librarian MAR&L | Trinity College DublinElaine Harrington | Special Collections Librarian | University College
CONUL – Going Further Together: Collaboration in Irish Academic & Research Libraries
1 June 2016
Collections, Preservation & Conservation
Gathered Together• Sub-committee on Collections, Preservation &
Conservation • 2013-2016 strategic work plan• Identifying UDC’s; their accessibility, condition,
preservation and other needs• Promote collaborative work packages• Siobhan Fitzpatrick (Mentor) Susie Bioletti (Chair), Eoin
McCarney, Evelyn Flanagan, Elaine Harrington, John Cremin, Ann McSweeney, Mary O’Doherty, Ursula Mitchel, Frank Reynolds, Hugh Murphy
Collections, Preservation & Conservation
Gathered Together• Survey completed June 2014 – May 2016• 12 libraries• 20 participants: Philip Cohen, Ursula Mitchel, Mary
O’Doherty, Siobhan Fitzpatrick, Colette O’Flaherty, Marie Boran, Hugh Murphy, Audrey Kinch, Susan Durack, Clara Joyce, Estelle Gittins, Helen McGinley, Paul Ferguson, Ray Stanley, John Cremin, Elaine Harrington, Emer Twomey, Evelyn Flanagan, Evelyn McAuley, Frank Reynolds
• 593 named unique and distinct collections
Collections, Preservation & Conservation
Gathered Together
• Date from the 3rd millennium BC• Over 10,415,386 items• 5,200,000 photographic items• 632,227 maps• Over 3,403,038 volumes• 160,353 drawings, watercolours• 8.5 kilometers other items• 50 skulls, 1700 medical instruments,130 silverware• Harps, gun, flags, medals, death masks, furnishings
Collections, Preservation & Conservation
Gathered Together• Lets do more …• Identify collaborate projects that re/connect collections.• Explore synergies and use these to highlight significance• Identify and reduce greatest risks to collection preservation• Joint grant funding opportunities – collection surrogates,
improved access and greater exposure for CONUL • Advocate for conservation and improved storage • Why? Because our collections are worth it
Collections, Preservation & Conservation
Types of Collections• English Literary Collections• Irish Language
Manuscripts Individuals / Companies
• Cultural Music Theatre Estates Science & Business
Brendan Kennelly & Robert Ballagh. The Great Book of Ireland. f35
PP/4/1 (1) Letter from Sean O'Faolain to Munira Hamud Mutran, São Paulo, Brazil, re: Irish writing 17 February 1973.
Ringling-North
Inscription from James Stephens to his wife in Strict Joy: Poems.
English Literary Collections
Hearn, Lafacadio. The Boy Who Drew Cats.
Music
UCC Goodman MS 196 p.72 Tunes for Francis & Thos Godfrey
Goodman Collection: TCD MS 3194
Special Collections, Queen’s University Belfast, Bunting Collection, QUB MS 4/30/20, ‘Starrae er whoola Gaurdin or the land behind the garden,’ 1792.
Theatre & Broadcasting
National Dance Archive of Ireland N25_1
PP/6/51 Teresa Deevy - Detail from Abbey Theatre Souvenir programme Aug 1938
EstatesHouse of the Earl of Dunraven
at Adare, D/3196
Bantry House and gardens c. early 20th century
PP/13/3/8 Marriage Settlement from the papers of the Borrowes family of Giltown, Co. Kildare. 4 Dec 1783.
Special Collections, Queen’s University Belfast, Robert Hart Collection, QUB MS 15/6/5/1
Science & Business
‘Scientists, including Cynthia Longfield (2nd from left), from the St George expedition posing with their equipment. RIA, LRC/25, p2.
Robert Lloyd Praeger
Collections, Preservation & Conservation
Slide CreditsSlide 7• Irish Script on Screen: https://www.isos.dias.ie/• Ó Longáin Conference: https://www.ucc.ie/en/modern-irish/olongain-conference/
Slide 8• Special Collections, NUIG, Duilearga Collection: Irische Dollsmarchen, 1920.• TCD Early Printed Books, Sáirséal agus Dill Collection: Ó Neill, Séamus. Tonn Tuile. Baile Átha
Cliath: Sáirséal agus Dill, 1947. S & D 1:3.• Special Collections, UCC Library, Torna Collection: Ó Criomhthain, Tomás. Allagar na hInise.
Baile Átha Cliath : Ó Fallamhain i gcomhar le hOifig an tSoláthair, 1928.
Slide 9• Special Collections, NUIG, Ringling-North Collection.• Maynooth University PP/4/1 (1) Letter from Sean O'Faolain to Munira Hamud Mutran, São
Paulo, Brazil, re: Irish writing 17 February 1973.• Special Collections, UCC Library. The Great Book of Ireland. f35.
Slide 10• Special Collections, NUIG, Hearn Collection: Hearn, Lafacadio. The Boy Who Drew Cats.• TCD Early Printed Books, James Stephens Collection: Stephens, James. Strict Joy: Poems.
Slide CreditsSlide 11• Special Collections, Queen’s University Belfast, Bunting Collection, QUB MS 4/30/20, ‘Starrae er
whoola Gaurdin or the land behind the garden,’ 1792.• Special Collections, UCC Library: MS 196 ‘Tunes for Francis George & Thos Godfrey’ p.72• TCD Music, Goodman Collection: TCD MS 3194 and portrait of Fr. James Goodman
Slide 12• Maynooth University PP/6/51 Teresa Deevy - Detail from Abbey Theatre Souvenir programme
Aug 1938• Glucksman Library, UL, National Dance Archive of Ireland N25_1
Slide 13• Glucksman Library, UL, D/3196 House of the Earl of Dunraven at Adare, • Special Collections, Queen’s University Belfast, Robert Hart Collection, QUB MS 15/6/5/1 • Archives Service, UCC Library, Bantry House and gardens c. early 20th century • PP/13/3/8 Marriage Settlement from the papers of the Borrowes family of Giltown, Co. Kildare. 4
Dec 1783. (John Paul II Library, Maynooth University)
Slide 14• Royal Irish Academy, Robert Lloyd Praeger (RIA).• Royal Irish Academy, Longfield Roberts Collection: ‘Scientists, including Cynthia Longfield (2nd
from left), from the St George expedition posing with their equipment. RIA, LRC/25, p2.
Collections, Preservation & Conservation
Thank you!Gathered Together: A Survey of the Unique & Distinct
Collections Held by CONULSusie Bioletti | Keeper, Preservation & Conservation | Trinity College Dublin