Stacks Requests
The size and range of Trinity College Library Dublin means that only a small proportion of its stock is on the open shelves to be browsed. The bulk of the collection is in Closed Access, held in storage areas either on campus or the Santry Book Depository near Dublin Airport.
In order to view the items a "Stack Request" must be made.
Unless specifically stated otherwise, material from Stacks locations can be delivered to the Berkeley, Early Printed Books, Hamilton, or John Stearne Medical Library Service Counters by using the Automated Stack Requests (ASR) procedure and selecting the appropriate location during the process. However, some books - mainly older material - cannot be delivered via ASR and must be requsted using a call slip - the catalogue will indicate this. Journals must also be requested by call slip.
Whether the material can be borrowed depends on the category of reader requesting it and the category of material. For example, no-one may borrow material from the Early Printed Books or Manuscripts and Archives Stacks.
Items with the shelfmark in format "Numbers. Letters. Numbers"- e.g., 39.u.182, 71.t.53 - may be requested via ASR but only for use in the Early Printed Books Reading Room.
Only five Stack Requests in total may be be open at any one time; more requests made will be ignored.
The Online Catalogue will tell the user if the item is in storage by listing one of the following locations:
- Berkeley, Stacks
- Early Printed Books, Stacks
- Manuscripts, Stacks
- Ussher, Stacks
- Santry, Stacks
- External Storage, Journals (however, all issues with this location should be available electronically)