Information Resources
The Library as a whole contains about a million print volumes, with substantial collections of around a million non-print formats, including 650,000 e-books. Almost 80% of stock is on open access. Approximately 9,500 purchased monographs, and 2,500 donations or legal deposit items are added to stock each year, and 32,000 current journal titles and databases are available, the vast majority of which are e-journals. In summer 2013 the Library introduced PDA - Patron Driven Acquisition - for a significant amount of its spend on both print and online materials. The Library is a European Documentation Centre, a national depository for United States government publications, and a legal deposit library for Irish publications. A small but significant holding of some 30,000 early printed books and special collections is housed in a separate bookstack with independent environmental control. In addition, almost 40,000 pre- 1930 items are managed by them and will be added to Special Collections when space is available. This additional material is currently on open access or in the Library store.
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