Election posters

Behind the scenes

November 23, 2011 · 0 comments

in Collections,Digital Collections,Digitisation,Oscail,Projects,Research

by Jenny Doyle, Oscail Programme Manager While the National Library holds wonderful collections of rare and antiquarian books, manuscripts, photographs, maps, prints and drawings (some of which you’ve read about on this very blog) one of our other jobs is to collect, preserve, promote and make accessible today’s and indeed tomorrow’s books, newspapers, manuscripts, etc. […]

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General Election 2011 Web Archiving

October 26, 2011 · 3 comments

in Collections,Digital Collections,Oscail,Projects

by Catherine Ryan, Digital Collections Student & Maria O’Shea, Manuscript Student Here at the National Library we try to collect as much as we can that might not otherwise be collected and available to researchers of the future. So, when it came to the 2011 General Election, we not only collected posters, flyers etc. as […]

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