Trinity College Library Dublin
A History
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- Author: Peter Fox, University of Cambridge
- Date Published: April 2014
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This is the first comprehensive, scholarly history of Trinity College Library Dublin. It covers the whole 400 years of the Library's development, from its foundation by James Ussher in the seventeenth century to the electronic revolution of the twenty-first century. Particular attention is given to the buildings and to the politics involved in obtaining funding for them, as well as to the acquisition of the great treasures, such as the Book of Kells and the libraries of Ussher, Claudius Gilbert and Hendrik Fagel. An important aspect is the comprehensive coverage of legal deposit from the beginning of the nineteenth century, viewed for the first time from the Irish perspective. The book also draws parallels with the development of other libraries in Dublin and with those of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and features throughout the individuals who influenced the Library's development - librarians, politicians, readers, book collectors and book thieves.
Read more- The first comprehensive, scholarly history of Trinity College Library Dublin, the foremost library in Ireland
- Covers the library's whole 400-year history and places it in the context of the development of other comparable libraries
- Peter Fox is a leading library historian and former College Librarian and Archivist at Trinity College Dublin
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'Hugely informative and thoroughly researched.' Irish Times
See more reviews'Equally at home with incunabula, cataloguing systems and techniques of conservation and digitization, no better analysis of the vicissitudes and riches of the library than Fox can be imagined.' Times Literary Supplement
'This handsome volume … is a very welcome addition to the college's history and to the intellectual history of Ireland … This book is not a dry recitation of facts, figures and money expended, it is an engrossing read, with shots of humour and quirky sidelights. It is well illustrated with portraits, plans for library buildings, and manuscript documents. The good-value price for an academic book should ensure a wide readership.' Máire Kennedy, Irish Arts Review
'I commend this excellent history of Ireland's finest library. It contains an intriguing 'what if?' - what would have been the Library's later history had David Webb been appointed College Librarian in 1949?' E. Charles Nelson, Archives of Natural History
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- Date Published: April 2014
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9781139950114
- contains: 28 b/w illus. 12 colour illus.
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
1. Early days:
1592–1640
2. Kells, Durrow and Ussher:
1640–1665
3. Alexander, Bath and the Jacobites:
1665–1708
4. A new building:
1709–1737
5. Stearne, Gilbert and Lyon:
1738–1749
6. The Library in 1750
7. Leland to Barrett:
1751–1800
8. Fagel:
1798–1809
9. Barrett:
1801–1821
10. Sadleir, Wall and Todd:
1821–1852
11. The Library in 1850
12. Todd as Librarian:
1852–1869
13. Malet and Ingram:
1869–1886
14. Abbott:
1887–1913
15. Smyly:
1914–1948
16. The Library in 1950
17. Parke:
1949–1965
18. Professional management:
1965–1983
19. Epilogue:
1984–2003.
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