Friday, March 16, 2012

A New Home for Archives at NUI Galway

It is an increasingly exciting time here at NUI Galway as next door to the James Hardiman Library, constructions work is continuing at speed on the Arts, Humanities and Social Science Research Building.

The AHSSRB will house a hub for research at NUI Galway across a wide range of disciplines across the Arts, Humanities, Social Science and more. Key to this research building will be the new home for Archives and Special Collections of the James Hardiman Library. The move to this new purpose-built building will allow for a large-scale expansion of service by the Archives and Special Collections section as well as the other research bodies that the AHSRRB will house.

The new building will include bespoke designed environmentally controlled archival storage, a reading room of over 40 reader spaces, acclimatisation rooms for archives, processing room, digitisation centre,  lecture rooms, meeting rooms and a dedicated exhibition space to name just a few of the confirmed features.

The Archives and Special Collections service of the James Hardiman Library are delighted to be working in bringing you this exciting development to our service and look forward to welcoming you to our new home for research in Spring 2013. Here are some images that show the huge development happening here on campus at NUI Galway:



9 comments:

  1. So it's not an extension to the library? Considering the library is already far too small for the 17,000 students the university now has, perhaps NUIG should learn to prioritise.

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  2. Hi and thanks for your comment. The Arts, Humanities and Social Science Research building is not a new James Hardiman Library building. It will be a shared hub for research on campus. Archives and Special Collections are just one section of the Library and the new building will offer a world-class facility. Of course the Library does realise space is a big issue and will continue to improve and meet the needs of all its students.

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  3. Jesus christ a bit more study space for students would be nice, half of nui galway's income does come from us....

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  4. So there will be 0 extra seats for undergraduate students in the building?

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  5. Thanks for the comments all. Undergraduates are more than welcome (as they currently are)to use the new Archives and Special Collections Reading Room if they need to consult such material. This new reading room is an expanded reading space as is curently found in SCRR reading room on the ground floor of the Hardiman Library, next to law library.

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  6. If NUIG are aware of the space issue, what plans are in place to remedy the situation?

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  7. Well done, students going in to college in the morning not to get a seat in their own library (which they pay for use included in their fees). Seems a bit ridiculous. Think more books might be a better investment, as you could have to wait weeks for some when placed on a holding list. At once I was going to be the 17th person on a hold list for a book in February.

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  8. This building is a giant monument to the contempt with which NUIG regards it's undergraduates.

    Disgraceful.

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  9. When and where are these spaces going to made available? Seriously need to get priorities straight.

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