Trinity College Library, Dublin
The Old Library building
Country	Ireland
Type	Academic library
Location	College Street, Dublin 2
Coordinates	53°20′38″N 6°15′24.5″W / 53.34389, -6.256806
Collection
Items collected	Books, journals, newspapers, magazines, sound and music recordings, databases, maps, prints and manuscripts
Size	4,500,000 volumes
Legal deposit	Yes, in United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland (by Act of Parliament from 1801 and subsequent legislation)
Access and use
Access requirements	Staff and students of the university; other readers are admitted under cross-institutional arrangements, or if material is unavailable elsewhere
Other information
Director	Robin Adams (Librarian)
Website	http://www.tcd.ie/Library/

The Trinity College Library, the centrally-administered library of Trinity College, Dublin, is the largest library in Ireland. As a "copyright library", it has legal deposit rights for Ireland. It is also the only Irish library which holds such rights for the United Kingdom also.

The current librarian, Robin Adams, is Chair of the Irish Universities Association Librarians' Group.

Staff and students of the University of Dublin also have access to the libraries of the Adelaide and Meath Hospital, Tallaght, and the Irish School of Ecumenics, Milltown.

Buildings

The Library proper occupies several buildings, four of which are on the campus of Trinity College itself and another at St. James's Hospital, Dublin:

• the Old Library, incorporating:
  • the Early Printed Books Reading Room;
  • the Manuscripts Reading Room;
• the Berkeley-Lecky-Ussher (BLU) library complex, incorporating:
  • the Berkeley Library;
  • the Lecky Library;
  • the James Ussher Library (including the Multimedia Area);
  • the Glucksman Map Library and Conservation Department;
• the Hamilton Science and Engineering Library;
• the 1937 Reading Room (for postgraduate use);
• the John Stearne Medical Library, housed at St James' Hospital.

Further materials are held in reference stacks in college and also at a huge book depository in the Dublin suburb of Santry.

Copyright library status

According to the Republic of Ireland's Copyright and Related Rights Act 2000, the library is entitled, along with the National Library of Ireland and the libraries of the National University of Ireland, the University of Limerick, and Dublin City University, to receive a copy of all works published in the Republic of Ireland. Also, as a result of the British Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003, which continues a more ancient right which was stated in a British Act of 1911, the library is entitled, along with the British Library, the Bodleian Library at Oxford, Cambridge University Library, the National Library of Wales and the National Library of Scotland, to receive a copy on request of all works published in the United Kingdom.

External links

• Trinity College Library, Dublin
• Search the library catalogue

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Coordinates: 53°20′38″N 6°15′24.5″W / 53.34389, -6.256806