Services
Dublin City Public Libraries provides a range of services for readers, learners, students, hobbyists, the business community, and others. These include:
- Access to general collections and reference and information services
- Access to Local Studies Collections and Archives in the Reading Room at the Dublin City Library and Archive
- Broadband and Wireless (Wi-Fi) Internet access available in all branches
- DublinHeritage.ie, a history and heritage resource, which includes online databases of Dublin City Electoral Lists, a Directory of Dublin Graveyards, Ancient Freemen of Dublin and community memory database which list commemorative plaques around dublin city.
- Business Information Centre, a reference centre specialising in company and market research information. The centre holds books, national and international directories, magazines, trade journals, reports, databases, electronic resources, statistics, newspapers, City and County Development Plans, maps & atlases, Irish Company reports and a wide range of business related subjects
- Open Learning Centre, located in the Central Library, offers a wide range of computer and language self learning courses
- Music Library, where music is available in a broad range of formats, either recorded, in the case of CDs, DVDs, and CD-ROMs, or printed as with our Vocal Scores, Miniature Scores, Sheet music, Part-works, Libretti, and Songbooks. Other facilities available include CD sampling booths, a keyboard and a song-line and CD-track database.
- An ongoing programme of events including lectures, recitals and exhibitions
- Language learning is also facilitated in the Dublin City Public Library System through a group dynamic process centred around conversation exchange in foreign languages
- Services to particular groups include services to schools, multicultural services, housebound service and services to prisons
- Other services include the provision of meeting rooms to local community groups such as Historical Societies, Painting Groups, Parent & Toddler Groups, Writing groups, Reading groups and book clubs
- Several branches provide access to Adult Literacy Services
- Most branches provide quiet areas for study
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Famous quotes containing the word services:
“I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“We now in the United States have more security guards for the rich than we have police services for the poor districts. If you’re looking for personal security, far better to move to the suburbs than to pay taxes in New York.”
—John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)
“Working women today are trying to achieve in the work world what men have achieved all along—but men have always had the help of a woman at home who took care of all the other details of living! Today the working woman is also that woman at home, and without support services in the workplace and a respect for the work women do within and outside the home, the attempt to do both is taking its toll—on women, on men, and on our children.”
—Jeanne Elium (20th century)