Jenny Doyle

We’ve been doing our hard sums

July 19, 2013 · 2 comments

in Cataloguing,Collections,Conservation,Digital Collections,Digitisation

by Jenny Doyle,  Digitisation Programme Co-ordinator 42,430 + 12,000 = 11% For those of you with Holmesian standard detection abilities, apologies for this update, as you have probably already noticed something different about the NLI’s catalogue. For those less eagle-eyed or less regular users of our collections, I’d like to draw your attention to a […]

Tagged as: 1798, Conservation, Digitisation, Douglas Hyde Photographs, Ephemera, Giraldus Cambrensis, Gordon Brewster Cartoons, Grace Gifford, Jenny Doyle, Longfield Maps, Sandymount Strand, Tuke Collection, William Wallace, Wiltshire Collection

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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. […]

Tagged as: 1918, 2011 General Election, Born-digital, Daguerreotypes, Dylan Haskins, Election posters, Independent Newspapers (Ireland) Collection, Jenny Doyle, Miss Coddington, Oscail, Oscail Programme, Oscail Programme Manager, Presidential Election, Sinn Féin, Twitpic, Twitter, Web Archiving

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