Trinity College Library, Dublin

Trinity College Library, Dublin

Location	College Street, Dublin 2, Ireland
Collection size	4,500,000 volumes
Director	Robin Adams (Librarian)
Website	http://www.tcd.ie/Library/

The Old Library

The Trinity College Library, the centrally-administered library of the University of Dublin, Trinity College, is the largest library in Ireland. The library has legal deposit rights both in Ireland and the United Kingdom. It comprises several buildings, four of which are on the campus of Trinity College itself and one of which is located 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.

Further materials are held in reference stacks in college and at a book depository in Santry. Staff and students of the University also have access to the libraries of the Adelaide and Meath Hospital, Dublin, incorporating the National Children's Hospital, Tallaght, and the Irish School of Ecumenics, Milltown. The current librarian is Robin Adams, Chair of the Irish Universities Association Librarians Group.

According to the Republic of Ireland's Irish Copyright Act 1963 and the British Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003, the library is entitled, along with four more libraries (Bodleian Library, Cambridge University Library, the National Library of Wales and the National Library of Scotland) to receive a copy of works printed in the United Kingdom. In contrast with the British library, these libraries receive the works only after requesting them, a task done centrally by the Agency for the Legal Deposit Libraries.