New Facilities opening Tuesday, August 6th.

Tuesday 6^th August will be an exciting day on campus when the Archives and Special Collections service of the Hardiman Library will open the doors to the public for the first time to the new research facilities. The Arts Humanities and Social Science Research Building (AHSSRB) will provide a spacious 36-seater reading room that will house a comfortable and engaging research environment as well as state of the art and BS5454 standard compliant environment and storage for our unique collections and library treasures.

All at the Hardiman Library would like to extend a sincere thank you to all our readers and researchers for their patience over the move period which was necessary to allow our collections and service to relocate to its new home on campus. We are delighted and look forward to welcoming all readers to our new home at the heart of campus at NUI Galway.

New Archives and Special Collections Reading Room

Seomra Léitheoireachta na mBailiúchán Speisialta: fógra tábhachtach/Special Collections Reading Room: Important Notice

A chara,

Go luath aistreofar Bailiúcháin Speisialta agus Cartlanna Leabharlann Shéamais Uí Argadáin chuig Foirgneamh nua Taighde na nDán, na nDaonnachtaí agus na nEolaíochtaí Sóisialta (AHSSRB).

D’fhonn réiteach dó seo, beidh sé riachtanach Seomra na mBailiúchán Speisialta a dhúnadh ón 17:00 an 28 Meitheamh 2013 go dtí an 8 Iúil 2013. Aistreofar ábhar uile na mBailiúchán Speisialta chomh maith leis na bailiúcháin Chartlainne chuig áit ar leith san fhoirgneamh nua. Ar chuid de na háiseanna a bheidh ar fáil san fhoirgneamh nua beidh Seomra Léitheoireachta do suas le 36 duine, limistéar taispeántais, limistéir rochtana acmhainní digiteacha, ionad digitithe, agus áiseanna micreascannáin/comhairliúcháin chlosamhairc. Beidh limistéir stórais den scoth, a bheidh rialaithe de réir timpeallachta, ann do na bailiúcháin, chun teacht le caighdeán BS 5454.

Tuigimid go gcuirfidh sé isteach ar roinnt úsáideoirí an seomra seo a bheith dúnta, ach is gá é a dhéanamh d’fhonn an t-aistriú chuig an bhfoirgneamh nua a éascú. Gabhaimid leithscéal as aon mhíchaoithiúlacht a eascraíonn ón obair seo agus gabhaimid buíochas leat as do thuiscint.

Le haghaidh breis eolais, déan teagmháil le:

Niall McSweeney

An Ceannasaí um Fhócas ar Chustaiméirí agus Seirbhísí Taighde,

Leabharlann Shéamais Uí Argadáin, OÉ Gaillimh

Teil: + 353 91 493915

niall.mcsweeney@nuigalway.ie
 

 

Dear friends,

The new Arts, Humanities Social Sciences Research Building (AHSSRB) will soon become the home for the James Hardiman Library Special Collections and Archives.

To prepare for this major move, it will be necessary to close the existing Special Collections Room at 17:00 on June 28^th 2013 until 8^th July 2013. All Special Collections material and Archive collections will be moved over to a purpose-built area in the AHSSRB. Some of the facilities available in the new building will include a Reading Room that can seat up to 36 people, an exciting exhibition area, digital resource access areas, a digitisation centre, and microfilm/audio-visual consultation facilities. There will be state-of-the-art, environmentally controlled, storage areas for the collections, meeting the BS 5454 standard.

We are aware that the closure may impact heavily on some users, but the closure is necessary in order to facilitate the move to the new building. We apologise for any disruption caused and thank you for your understanding.

For any further information, please contact:

Niall McSweeney

Head of Customer Focus and Research Services,

James Hardiman Library, Nui Galway

Tel: + 353 91 493915

niall.mcsweeney@nuigalway.ie

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: