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Title: DigitisationBranching Out Meath County Library


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Digitisation-Branching Out Meath County Library
  • Ciarán Mangan
  • County Librarian

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Meath County Council Library Service
  • Population 162,620
  • 13 Branches
  • 22,500 members
  • 420,000 Issues
  • 10 Professional Posts (48 Staff in total)
  • Branching Out
  • Opening Hours
  • Branch Development

3
Local Studies Dept
  • 4,500 Vols
  • Journals
  • Maps
  • Ephemera
  • Archives
  • Local Studies Librarian
  • Staff Development

4
Digitisation in context
  • Automation of collection
  • 3 Phases
  • Publishing-CD,Audio,Book
  • National Initiatives-AAI
  • Focus
  • Structure

5
Ask About Ireland
  • Architecture-Thatched Houses in County Meath
  • The Big House-Charlesfort Estate
  • Flora and Fauna-Tobacco Growing in Meath
    1898-1932
  • Poor Law Union-Dunshaughlin Workhouse
  • Irish Traditional Music-Turlough OCarolan

6
Student Zone
  • Homes Then and Now
  • Quality
  • Partnership

7
Benefits
  • Upskilling of staff
  • Outlet for unique material
  • Access to national resource
  • Osi -Access
  • Irish Times-Digital Archive
  • Goodwill

8
Future Plans/Challenges
  • Conway Papers- Challenges
  • Audio Publishing- Options
  • Archive and LS Resource Pack for Schools
  • Fieldnames
  • Photographic Archive- Clare Library model ??
  • Library Website-Waterford County,Clare,Mayo,Sligo

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THEMES
  • I. LOCAL STUDIES
  • Locality and Schools
  • Transportation railways and canal
  • Farming in Meath
  • II. 19TH CENTURY MEATH
  • Meath poor law unions and workhouses
  • The land
  • Health and medicine
  • III. PAST AND PRESENT
  • Business and trade
  • Sport
  • Glossary
  • Timeline

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