Trinity College Library - Buildings

Buildings

The Library proper occupies several buildings, four of which are on the campus of Trinity College itself and another 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) Libraries complex, incorporating:
  • the Berkeley Library (including the Multimedia Area);
  • the Lecky Library;
  • the Ussher Library;
  • 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, housed at St James's Hospital.

Further materials are held in storage, either in closed access stacks on campus or at a book depository in the Dublin suburb of Santry.

Starting at 4 pm on Saturday 29 November 2009, the Trinity Students' Union organised a 24 hour sit-in in protest at a reduced book-buying budget, lack of access to books on Sundays, and a proposed reduction of counter services.