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Library HITS Training – Thursday 28 September

Avoiding Plagiarism 11:00

Worried about plagiarism? Find out what it is, the importance of acknowledging the work of others, and how to cite and reference information correctly.

Who Needs an Academic Library When We’ve Got Google? 13:00

Develop your critical skills and find answers to questions like ‘what is the deep web’ and ‘how do I know what a quality source looks like?’

Reading & Note-Making 15:00

So much reading and so little time. Learn how to read more efficiently and effectively and make useful notes from reading material and lectures.

Library Basics 17:00

Learn how to make the most of Ireland’s biggest library – a general introduction to our resources and services.

 

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Library HITS Training – Wednesday 27 September

Reading My Reading List 11:00

You have your reading list, now what? A guide to finding the library resources recommended by your lecturer.

Skills for Academic Success 13:00

Work smarter not harder to get the most out of your study time in College. Learn how to prioritise tasks, manage your time and get advice on how to improve your academic performance.

EndNote Desktop (STR) 15:00

How do I manage references for my research? A hands-on workshop recommended for postgrads and staff. Class duration is 60 minutes followed by an optional clinic for attendees. 

The Literature Review Process 17:00

How do I establish what has already been published on my research question? Learn how to create an effective search strategy.

 

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Library HITS Training – Tuesday 26 September

EndNote Online 11:00

How do I manage references for my essay? Save time writing your bibliography. Class duration is 60 minutes followed by an optional clinic for attendees.

Avoiding Plagiarism 13:00

Worried about plagiarism? Find out what it is, the importance of acknowledging the work of others, and how to cite and reference information correctly.

Reading My Reading List 15:00

You have your reading list, now what? A guide to finding the library resources recommended by your lecturer.

Essay Writing 17:00

Essays are a common form of assessment in TCD. Come along for tips on the stages of the writing process, how to structure an essay, how to answer the question and build an argument.

 

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Library HITS Training – Monday 25 September

Library Basics 11:00

Learn how to make the most of Ireland’s biggest library – a general introduction to our resources and services.

Reading My Reading List 13:00

You have your reading list, now what? A guide to finding the library resources recommended by your lecturer.

EndNote Online 15:00

How do I manage references for my essay? Save time writing your bibliography. Class duration is 60 minutes followed by an optional clinic for attendees.

Library Basics 17:00

Learn how to make the most of Ireland’s biggest library – a general introduction to our resources and services.

 

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Friends of the Library Lecture: The Archaeology of Medieval Castles

The Friends of the Library – Trinity College Dublin are delighted to announce their next lecture. Admission is €5 (Members & Concessions €2.50). All welcome! Enquiries to 01 8961544 or LibraryFriends@tcd.ie.

The Archaeology of Medieval Castles

Terry Barry, Fellow Emeritus Trinity College Dublin

19:30, Thursday 21 September 2017

Téatar Máirtín Uí Chadhain, Arts Building Concourse, Trinity College Dublin

A graduate of Birmingham University, Professor Barry taught and researched in the Department of Medieval History up to retirement in 2016. His scholarly interests are in the archaeology of medieval Britain and Ireland, medieval castles and fortifications, and Viking archaeology. His many publications include The Archaeology of Medieval Ireland (London, 1987), with Vicky McAlister (eds) Space and Settlement in Medieval Ireland, (Dublin, 2015), and numerous articles and book chapters.

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“Keeping the Books” – Daily Talks in the Long Room

What does ingrained dirt on books and ice hockey have in common? What is red rot and foxing? How long did it take Trinity College Dublin to acquire its first 100,000 books and how many books are added annually? Do people still read the books in the Old Library? How are the books in the library organized on the shelves? Where can you see every page of the Book of Kells? What subject matter is covered in the Library and how was the collection built over time? What are the greatest threats to a historical library and how do we protect the books?

To learn the answers to all of these questions and more, come to the Long Room in the Old Library to hear the Preservation Assistants talk about keeping the collection of early printed books. The Preservation Assistants are part of an ongoing project, started in 2004, to systematically clean the 220,000+ books of the Old Library. They’ll walk you through the challenges of preserving an historic collection in a historic setting and explain how the books are cleaned and preserved for the future. Examples of books from the collection, dating from the invention of the printing press in the 15th century to the Victorian Era in the 19th century will be shown.

Talks run Monday to Friday at 3pm until 18th August and last 20 minutes.

Want to know more? Sarah Timmins, one of our current Preservation Assistants, has written a great piece on how our precious books in the Long Room are repaired.

Alumni and current students can see the Book of Kells, access the Long Room, and attend these talks for free, with up to three guests.

Other visitors who have paid for entry to the Old Library are welcome to attend the Keeping the Books talks for no additional charge.

Original text by Heather Courtney.

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Friends of the Library Lecture: The Berkeley @ 50

The Friends of the Library – Trinity College Dublin are delighted to announce their next lecture. As well as being a Friends of the Library event, it also features in the wider Berkeley50 year of celebrations, and admission is free to mark this. All welcome! Enquiries to 01 8961544 or LibraryFriends@tcd.ie.

Not just a building – not just a library: The Berkeley @ 50

Trevor Peare

19:30, Thursday 6 April 2017
Thomas Davis Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin

Trevor Peare, a Trinity graduate (Natural Science 1972), retired as Keeper (Readers’ Services) in 2015 having been on the Library staff for 43 years. Known for his affection of the Berkeley Library, he has given countless tours of the building to Trinity’s students, to architects and to the just curious over the years. As Keeper (Systems) in the 1990s, he oversaw the introduction of mainstream automation in the Library in parallel with the development of the Internet, the World Wide Web and into buildings designed before any of that was anticipated. Trevor is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals and of the Library Association of Ireland.

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Friends of the Library Lecture: Lost Landscapes – Reviving Historic Irish Gardens & Demesnes

The Friends of the Library – Trinity College Dublin are delighted to announce their next lecture. Admission is €5 (Members & Concessions €2.50). All welcome! Enquiries to 01 8961544 or LibraryFriends@tcd.ie.

Lost Landscapes: Reviving Historic Irish Gardens & Demesnes

Finola Reid

19:30, Thursday 9 March 2017
Thomas Davis Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin

Finola Reid is a gardens consultant specialising in conservation and restoration projects in historic gardens, walled garden complexes and demesne landscapes throughout Ireland.  She trained in horticulture in the National Botanic Gardens, Dublin, and worked on the garden staff there for many years before going into private consultancy. Her extensive knowledge and experience of plants, gardens and demesnes throughout Ireland stretches over more than four decades. She worked as programme manager of the ERDF funded ‘Great Gardens of Ireland Restoration Programme’ from 1994 to 2002, resulting in many gardens and demesnes being conserved and/or restored and opened to visitors, some for the very first time. Finola has served on the Heritage Council, the Irish Architectural Archive, and the Northern Ireland Heritage Gardens Committee. She has advised on and designed planting scheme for many gardens and demesnes including Emo Court, Annes Grove, Castletown House, and Dowth Hall.

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Friends of the Library Lecture: A Discovery from the Fagel Library – The St Petersburg Drawings

The Friends of the Library – Trinity College Dublin are delighted to announce their next lecture. Admission is €5 (Members & Concessions €2.50). All welcome! Enquiries to 01 8961544 or LibraryFriends@tcd.ie.

A Discovery from the Fagel Library: The St Petersburg Drawings

Dr Eddie McParland

19:30, Thursday 16 February 2017
Thomas Davis Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin

Dr McParland joined the TCD Department of the History of Art in 1973 and was elected a Fellow in 1984. His research has been mainly in the history of Irish architecture of the 18th and 19th centuries. His many publications include a biography of James Gandon in 1985 and a history of public architecture in Ireland between 1680 and 1760 (Yale 2001). A founder of the Irish Architectural Archive in 1976 and the Irish Landmark Trust, Dr McParland was elected Pro-Chancellor of the University in 2013.

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Berkeley50 – A Year of Celebrations

Berkeley Library, Trinity College, Dublin: the entrance front and raised forecourt

Our iconic Berkeley Library is 50 years old this year – and we need your help to celebrate!

Every week, we will release a new post on the Berkeley50 website – check out the first ones there already. We need your photos and stories to make this work. Can you help?

Some of the stories will be about the time before the opening, when Trinity was pulling together the funds and deciding on the design. This is a snippet from the film that was released in 1958 to help fundraise:

We will be hosting a series of events to celebrate the anniversary. Follow the events and stories on Twitter using #berkeley50.

 

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“Museums in Libraries, Libraries in Museums”: Talk by Beth McKillop, former Deputy Director V&A

Beth McKillop, Deputy Director, V&A Museum; 8th August 2014.
Beth McKillop, former Deputy Director, V&A Museum

Date: Friday 2nd December 2016

Time: 17:30 – 18:30

Venue: Thomas Davis Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin

All welcome and admission is free, but places are limited and by ticket only.  

Register here to confirm your attendance.

On Friday 2nd December the Library of Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin will host the public lecture, ‘Museums in Libraries, Libraries in Museums‘ by Beth McKillop, Deputy Director of the Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum from 2010 to 2016.

Her lecture will reflect on museums and libraries in the 21st century, from her unique perspective of 11 years at the V&A leading collections, curatorial and research programmes and 20 years in the British Library’s Asian Department. Her talk will have an international perspective, and will look at changing patterns of provision and engagement in museums and libraries around the world, with a focus on recent initiatives at the V&A.

Beth moved from the British Library to the V&A in 2004, becoming the V&A’s Deputy Director in 2010. In the information management sphere, she championed a digital infrastructure project, the award-winning Collections Management System, which launched in April 2010 and concluded in October 2014. Most recently she has worked with Professor Bill Sherman to develop a V&A initiative to transform museum-based research by establishing VARI, the V&A Research Institute.

The V&A is home to the National Art Library and the Archive of Art and Design. Beth will explore how these rich curatorial and information sources are incorporated across the physical and virtual museum. She will discuss plans to open V&A East, a new museum for East London, and will outline new thinking about museum and library collections as a kind of encyclopaedia of the material and digital world.

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A Danger to the Men? Next Friends of the Library Lecture 26/11/15

Danger to the Men coverThe Friends of the Library – Trinity College Dublin are delighted to announce their next lecture from the autumn/winter programme. Admission is €5 (Members & Concessions €2.50). All welcome! Enquiries to 01 8961544 or LibraryFriends@tcd.ie.

‘A Danger to the Men’? The Steamboat Ladies by Dr Susan Parkes (TCD)
19:30, Thursday 26 November 2015
Thomas Davis Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin

(Steamboat Ladies?)

Dr Parkes is former Senior Lecturer in Education and now Emeritus Fellow of Trinity College Dublin. She is an historian of education and author of books on Kildare Place, the Church of Ireland Training College and co-author of a history of Alexandra College. Dr Parkes edited and contributed to A Danger to the Men? A History of Women in Trinity College Dublin 1904–2004.

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The Future of Monographs in a World of Open Access – Public Forum 20/10/15

On Tuesday 20th October 2015, to mark International Open Access Week, the Library of Trinity College Dublin will hold a public discussion forum entitled The Future of Monographs in a World of Open Access, as part of The Library of the Future; the Future of the Library, a programme of events for 2015-2016. Continue reading “The Future of Monographs in a World of Open Access – Public Forum 20/10/15”

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Friends of the Library Lecture on World War I 24/09/15

The Friends of the Library – Trinity College Dublin are delighted to announce their first lecture from the autumn programme. Admission is €5 (Members & Concessions €2.50). All welcome! Enquiries to 01 8961544 or LibraryFriends@tcd.ie.

When did the Great War end?: the time frames of World War I by Dr John Horne
19:30, Thursday 24 September 2015
Thomas Davis Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin

Dr Horne recently retired as Professor of Modern European History at Trinity College Dublin. His research focuses on the history of twentieth-century France and the Great War from a comparative and transnational perspective. Dr Horne has published widely on the Great War, and edited and contributed to La guerre totale: le tournant de 1914-1915 (2010), A Companion to World War One (2010); and Our War: Ireland and the Great War (2008).