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.
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