July 2012
IVRLA is moving to UCD Digital Library
After 7 years of service, the IVRLA servers will be permanently switched off on August 1st. All IVRLA collections have been moved over to the new UCD Digital Library. UCD Digital Library offers enhanced functionality and some new IVRLA collections, which were previously unavailable on the IVRLA website.
Please update all bookmarks to the new UCD Digital Library (http://digital.ucd.ie). The IVRLA web pages will be redirecting to the UCD Digital Library for July 2012, before being switched off on August 1st 2012.
Please contact us at +353 1 716 7506 or digital.library@ucd.ie if you have any further queries.
June 2011
OUTTAGE NOTICE
The IVRLA will be unavailable due to essential upgrade to the UCD Data Centre. Services will go down at 2pm Wednesday 8th June 2011 and should be available again on Saturday 11th June 2011.
Many apologies for the inconvenience caused, and for the short notice.
November 2010
Official press release for the IVRLA launch, written by Dr Dervila Layden.
The UCD Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive (IVRLA) was formally launched by UCD President, Dr Hugh Brady, in Newman House on Wednesday 10th November 2010. This was the culmination of a truly interdisciplinary five-year project that involved over 70 academic, curatorial, and professional staff at all levels across UCD. The IVRLA repository includes almost 13,000 individual objects (comprising 169,000 individual scans or parts) in 32 curated collections, 17 research projects, and in preservation-only secure storage. Dr Brady complimented the project on the significant national resource that it had provided and observed that it proved the ability of the humanities to drive the national innovation agenda. Dr John Brooks Howard, University Librarian, and Professor Mary Daly, Principal of the College of Arts & Celtic Studies, both of whom were members of the IVRLA steering group, also spoke at the launch. They emphasised that the IVRLA repository brings UCD’s rich holdings into the digital age, communicating with a new multi-media oriented generation.
The IVRLA’s curated collections make available digitised versions of historically and culturally significant manuscripts, books, letters, maps, paintings, photographs, audio material and ephemera. Each of the digital humanities pilot research projects developed digital resources for scholarly use, created exhibition collections and established a basis for future collaborative and comparative projects which will fully exploit the research potential of the IVRLA repository. Together, these collections and research projects represent a unique scholarly resource. To access this publicly available resource, go to http://ivrla.ucd.ie
The launch event was part of the Innovation Dublin festival. The IVRLA, which was funded by PRTLI Cycle 3, is a component of the UCD Humanities Institute of Ireland and is based in the UCD Library.
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Dr John B. Howard, UCD President Hugh Brady and
Dr Dervila Layden |
UCD Librarian, Dr John B. Howard |
Dr John B. Howard and Professor Mary E. Daly |
October 2010
The IVRLA is running a series of exciting events in November in order to showcase its material, and to officially launch the IVRLA.
Details about these events can be found on the Innovation Dublin 2010 website. IVRLA is proud to be part of Innovation Dublin 2010.
List below are a summary of the events in November - please check the news centre for more details.
| Date | Venue | Time | Event | Presenter |
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| 10th Nov | UCD Humanities Institute of Ireland | 12-2pm | Digital Research with the IVRLA | Francesca Benatti |
| 10th Nov | Invitation Only | | Formal IVRLA Launch Event | |
| 11th Nov | James Joyce Library Room 130 | 4-6pm | Literary Mediascapes:
IVRLA and Irish Literature | Professor Gerardine Meaney |
| 12th Nov | Newman House, St Stephen's Green | 1-2pm | From Oral to Digital Culture
(Joint IVRLA-UCD John Hume Institute event) | Professor Karen Corrigan |
| 15th Nov | Clinton Auditorium, UCD John Hume Institute | 4.30-6pm | Creative Cities: Cultural and Technological Change from the 19th to the 21st century (Joint IVRLA-UCD John Hume Institute event) | Panel Discussion |
| 17th Nov | UCD Humanities Institute of Ireland | 4-6pm | Rising to Recession: Ireland's first 100 years and
the IVRLA | Professor Mary E. Daly |
March 2010
IVRLA is pleased to announce that 17 of our collections are available through cultural heritage portal Europeana.
IVRLA Collections currently available through Europeana:
- Boehm/Casement Correspondence
- Beranger Watercolours at UCD Library
- Schools' Manuscript Collection: Carna & Ballinasloe, Co. Galway
- UCD Ephemera Collection
- Folklore Photograph Collection
- Historic Maps Collection
- Papers of Michael Collins
- UCD Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute Monograph Collection
- Papers of Eugene O'Curry
- John O'Donovan/William Reeves Correspondence
- Colm Ó Lochlainn Collection – Ballads
- UCD Letters
- Papers of Françoise Henry
- Papers of Dr William Frazer
- Geological Survey Maps Collection
- Schools' Manuscript Collection – My Home District
- Luke Wadding Papers
