{{EngvarB|date=October 2013}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}} {{multiple issues| {{primary sources|date=January 2023}} {{advert|date=January 2023}} {{COI|date=January 2023}} {{Cite check|date=January 2023}} }} {{infobox library | name = UCD Library<br />'''Leabharlann UCD''' | logo = | image = | caption = | country = Ireland | type = Academic library | scope = | established = | ref_legal_mandate = | location = Belfield,<br />Dublin 4 | coordinates = | branch_of = | num_branches = 5 libraries, 3 cultural heritage units | items_collected = | collection_size = 3 Special Collections | criteria = | legal_deposit = | req_to_access = | annual_circulation = | pop_served = 26,354 FTE students excluding overseas campuses | members = | budget = | director = | num_employees = 103.3 FTE | website = [https://www.ucd.ie/library/ www.ucd.ie/library] | phone_num = }}

The University College Dublin Library, composed of five separate bodies, holds varied ranges of digital and printed books on a wide range of topics, including<ref name="ucd.ie">{{cite web| url = http://www.ucd.ie/agandvet/| website = ucd.ie| title = UCD School of Agriculture, Food Science & Veterinary Medicine| access-date = 28 July 2008| archive-date = 11 May 2008| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080511094408/http://www.ucd.ie/agandvet/| url-status = live}}</ref> architecture,<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.ucd.ie/arcel/index.html| website = ucd.ie| title = UCD School of Architecture, Landscape & Civil Engineering| access-date = 28 July 2008| archive-date = 3 May 2008| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080503055754/http://www.ucd.ie/arcel/index.html| url-status = live}}</ref> arts and humanities,<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.ucd.ie/acshs/| website = ucd.ie| title = UCD Arts, Celtic Studies and Human Sciences Programme Office| access-date = 28 July 2008| archive-date = 3 May 2008| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080503055734/http://www.ucd.ie/acshs/| url-status = live}}</ref>{{failed verification|reason=Where is the library mentioned in this source? Are we extrapolating that, because the university has a humanities program that the library must have related materials? How is that not OR/SYNTH?|date=January 2023}} business studies,<ref name="UCD College of Business and Law">{{cite web |url = http://www.ucd.ie/businessandlaw/index.html |website = ucd.ie |title = UCD College of Business and Law |access-date = 28 July 2008 |archive-date = 14 December 2008 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081214070455/http://www.ucd.ie/businessandlaw/index.html |url-status = dead }}</ref> engineering,<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.ucd.ie/engscience/index.html/ |website = ucd.ie |title = UCD College of Engineering, Mathematical & Physical Sciences |access-date = 28 July 2008 |archive-date = 9 March 2008 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080309173555/http://www.ucd.ie/engscience/index.html |url-status = live }}</ref> law,<ref name="UCD College of Business and Law"/> medicine,<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.ucd.ie/medicine/index.html| website = ucd.ie| title = UCD School of Medicine & Medical Science| access-date = 28 July 2008| archive-date = 1 May 2008| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080501220847/http://www.ucd.ie/medicine/index.html| url-status = live}}</ref> science,<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.ucd.ie/science/| website = ucd.ie| title = UCD Science Programme Office| access-date = 28 July 2008| archive-date = 22 September 2008| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080922014554/http://www.ucd.ie/science/| url-status = live}}</ref> social sciences<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.ucd.ie/sociology/index.html | website = ucd.ie| title = UCD School of Sociology}}</ref> and veterinary medicine.<ref name="ucd.ie"/> In 2015 UCD Archives <ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.ucd.ie/archives/| website = ucd.ie| title = UCD Archives| access-date = 18 November 2016| archive-date = 21 November 2016| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161121191947/http://www.ucd.ie/archives/| url-status = live}}</ref> and the National Folklore Collection UCD<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.ucd.ie/folklore/en/ |website = ucd.ie |title = National Folklore Collection UCD |access-date = 18 November 2016 |archive-date = 20 November 2016 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161120092639/http://www.ucd.ie/folklore/en/ |url-status = live }}</ref> came under the administrative umbrella of UCD Library.

University College Dublin (UCD) is the Republic of Ireland's largest university.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ucd.ie/about-ucd/about/ucdbynumbers/|title=University College Dublin - UCD by Numbers|website=ucd.ie|access-date=29 July 2019|archive-date=24 February 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240224110159/https://www.ucd.ie/about-ucd/about/ucdbynumbers/|url-status=live}}</ref> It is located in Dublin, Ireland.

==Buildings and locations== There are 5 UCD libraries: the James Joyce Library at Belfield serves as the administrative centre of the library system: it accommodates the central services and 85% of the stock; the Health Sciences library (for medicine, nursing and physiotherapy) is located in the UCD Health Sciences Centre at Belfield; Architecture (for architecture, landscape and planning) is in the Richview precinct at Belfield; Veterinary Medicine, located in the Veterinary Sciences Centre at Belfield; the UCD Michael Smurfit School of Business library<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.smurfitschool.ie/ |website = smurfitschool.ie |title = UCD Michael Smurfit School of Business |access-date = 29 July 2019 |archive-date = 15 July 2019 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190715211431/https://www.smurfitschool.ie/ |url-status = live }}</ref>{{nonspecific|date=January 2023}} at the Blackrock Campus. Accommodation for readers consists of some 3,150 reading and study places, including some single and group study and PBL rooms, and social learning areas. Wireless internet is available throughout all of the libraries, there are wired network points provided, and power outlets are available to about a half of study seats. A number of IT Services open computer labs and PC clusters are located within the libraries.{{citation needed|date=January 2023}}

==Information resources== The library as a whole contains over 800,000 print volumes, and access to over 260,000 e-books. Almost 80% of stock is on open access.{{citation needed|date=January 2023}} Approximately 7,500 purchased monographs, and 2,500 donations or legal deposit items are added to stock each year, and 99,000 current journal titles and databases are available, the vast majority of which are e-journals.{{citation needed|date=January 2023}} The library is a European Documentation Centre, a national depository for United States government publications, and a legal deposit library for Irish publications. A holding of some 30,000 early printed books and special collections is housed in a separate bookstack with independent environmental control.{{citation needed|date=January 2023}} In addition, almost 40,000 pre-1930 items are managed by them. UCD Archives and the National Folklore Collection at UCD house collections for use by the UCD community and external researchers.{{citation needed|date=January 2023}}

==The UCD Digital Library== The UCD Library supports digital repository services for dissemination of open access publications by university staff<ref>{{cite web |url = https://researchrepository.ucd.ie/ |website = ucd.ie |title = UCD Research Repository |access-date = 29 July 2019 |archive-date = 29 July 2019 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190729131756/https://researchrepository.ucd.ie/ |url-status = live }}</ref> as well as for management of digitized cultural heritage resources and data produced or consumed by the UCD community.<ref name="UCD Digital Library">{{cite web |url = https://digital.ucd.ie/ |website = ucd.ie |title = UCD Digital Library |access-date = 29 July 2019 |archive-date = 29 July 2019 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190729131759/https://digital.ucd.ie/ |url-status = live }}</ref>

In collaboration with UCD Research, there is interoperability between the library Institutional Repository (IR) and the UCD Research Management System (RMS) providing a single route to update research profiles and deposit individual full text items.{{citation needed|date=January 2023}} The institutional repository is based on DSpace and provides access to full text articles, working papers, reports, and other staff publications. It also provides a means of exporting information to a national open access repository, RIAN, as well as other subject-specific portals.{{citation needed|date=January 2023}} The UCD Digital Library, the successor to the IVRLA project, is a platform for the dissemination of diverse digital content associated with the university. In addition to cultural heritage collections, additional content includes geographic, quantitative and qualitative data produced or consumed by the UCD community. The new platform went live in summer 2012, and a major upgrade including a responsive website for use on both mobile and desktop devices, plus other new features went live in November 2014.<ref name="UCD Digital Library"/>{{nonspecific|date=January 2023}}

==Library management system and other online environments== The library website was re-designed and the content refreshed in 2011, and a further update completed summer 2014. In 2017 another major redesign took place.

A new Library Management System, from Innovative Interfaces, went live in July 2012, and upgraded to the newer Sierra platform in May 2015.<ref>{{cite web |url = https://library.ucd.ie/ |website = ucd.ie |title = Library catalogue |access-date = 29 July 2019 |archive-date = 2 February 2006 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060202185556/http://library.ucd.ie/ |url-status = live }}</ref>{{failed verification|reason=This appears to be a login page. Where is any of the preceding text mentioned?|date=January 2023}} In 2013, the library piloted the LibGuides product as a complement to the website and decided to mainstream this from 2014 for subject and thematic guides.<ref>{{cite web |url = https://libguides.ucd.ie/ |website = ucd.ie |title = Libguides platform |access-date = 21 November 2017 |archive-date = 25 November 2017 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171125202739/http://libguides.ucd.ie/ |url-status = live }}</ref> This website project also included a new design for LibGuides. In August 2014, the library launched the Summon 2.0 web-scale discovery service, badged locally as OneSearch.<ref>{{cite web |url = https://ucd.summon.serialssolutions.com/ |title = OneSearch |access-date = 29 July 2019 |archive-date = 29 July 2019 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190729131755/https://ucd.summon.serialssolutions.com/ |url-status = live }}</ref>{{failed verification|date=January 2023}} The library also maintains a social media presence, including an instant messaging chat service, a Twitter feed, an Instagram presence, YouTube channels, a blog and a Facebook page.<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.ucd.ie/library/contact/ |website = ucd.ie |title = Contact Us |access-date = 29 July 2019 |archive-date = 29 July 2019 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190729131841/https://www.ucd.ie/library/contact/ |url-status = live }}</ref>{{relevance inline|date=January 2023}}

==Services== Lending, document supply, information skills training, and reference and information services are available in all library locations. Print journals, reference materials, official publications, theses, and Special Collections materials are not available for loan. A charge is made for Inter-Library Loan and document supply. Copi Print provides print and copying facilities, on a paid self-service basis, in the libraries and in other university buildings.{{citation needed|date=January 2023}}

Services have increasingly moved online, with online fines and charges payment introduced November 2013 using the university e-wallet system UCard, followed by online group study room booking from January 2014 using the Springshare product LibCal.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://ucd.libcal.com/| website = ucd.libcal.com| title = Group Study Room booking| access-date = 29 July 2019| archive-date = 29 July 2019| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190729140555/https://ucd.libcal.com/| url-status = live}}</ref> Laptop loans at the largest library moved to a self-service system in September 2014, with the Health Sciences library following in August 2017. Online booking of individual study rooms and the Postgraduate Research Centre commenced in February 2015. The library also holds training workshops which are booked online through the UCD People Development booking system.<ref>{{cite web |url = https://sisweb.ucd.ie/usis/W_HU_MENU.P_PUBLISH?p_tag=LIBTRN |website = ucd.ie |title = Library Classes Calendar |access-date = 29 July 2019 |archive-date = 29 July 2019 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190729131805/https://sisweb.ucd.ie/usis/W_HU_MENU.P_PUBLISH?p_tag=LIBTRN |url-status = live }}</ref>

The Short Loan collection in the James Joyce library and the entire stock of the Blackrock and Veterinary Medicine libraries uses RFID technology. This allows readers to borrow and return books without the assistance of library staff.{{citation needed|date=January 2023}}

Opening hours in each of the five UCD libraries vary throughout the year.<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.ucd.ie/library/use/opening-hours/ |website = ucd.ie |title = UCD Library opening hours |access-date = 29 July 2019 |archive-date = 10 August 2019 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190810005201/http://www.ucd.ie/library/use/opening-hours/ |url-status = live }}</ref>

==Liaison with other libraries and organisations== UCD Library participates in a number of collaborative initiatives and projects. These include IReL<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://irel.ie/ |title=IReL |access-date=29 July 2019 |archive-date=29 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190729140936/https://irel.ie/ |url-status=live }}</ref> (the Irish e-Library, an initiative funded by the Higher Education Authority<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://hea.ie/ |title=Higher Education Authority of Ireland |access-date=29 July 2019 |archive-date=1 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190701183045/https://hea.ie/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and Science Foundation Ireland to provide a world-class portfolio of e-journals to support research), IRIS (a company which manages the IReL initiative), ALCID<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.ucd.ie/library/use/visitlibs/ |website = ucd.ie |title = ALCID |access-date = 29 July 2019 |archive-date = 29 July 2019 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190729141012/https://www.ucd.ie/library/use/visitlibs/ |url-status = live }}</ref> (a reciprocal access scheme for academic staff and postgraduate research students), CONUL Training and Development,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.conul.ie/training-development/ |title=CONUL Training and Development |access-date=29 July 2019 |archive-date=29 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190729162453/http://www.conul.ie/training-development/ |url-status=live }}</ref> which provides a regular staff training and development programme, and the RIAN Project, funded through the Higher Education Authority's Strategic Innovation Fund<ref>[http://www.hea.ie/en/sif/ Higher Education Authority of Ireland, Strategic innovation fund]{{Dead link|date=December 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref> to provide e-repositories in each university, and a national portal, for open-access research publications. Internationally, the library has participated in the past in a number of research projects funded through the European Commission's FRAMEWORK Programmes, and, as an affiliate member of the NEREUS Consortium,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.nereus4economics.info/ |title=NEREUS Consortium |access-date=29 July 2019 |archive-date=29 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190729140934/https://www.nereus4economics.info/ |url-status=live }}</ref> participated in the NEEO (Network of European Economists Online)<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.nereus4economics.info/neeo_intro_press.html |title=NEEO |access-date=29 July 2019 |archive-date=29 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190729140937/https://www.nereus4economics.info/neeo_intro_press.html |url-status=live }}</ref> project, funded by the eContentplus Programme, a multilingual portal to the full-text research outputs of 500 top researchers in the partner institutions. UCD Library was a partner with the library of the Queen's University of Belfast in the PADDI (Planning Architecture Design Database Ireland) project and both libraries continue to jointly operate the PADDI Database service.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.paddi.net/ |title=PADDI website |access-date=29 August 2012 |archive-date=27 August 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120827073418/http://www.paddi.net/? |url-status=live }}</ref> UCD Library is an institutional member of SCONUL, CONUL,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.conul.ie/ |title=CONUL |access-date=28 July 2008 |archive-date=18 November 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071118175635/http://www.conul.ie/ |url-status=live }}</ref> IATUL,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.iatul.org/ |title=IATUL |access-date=29 July 2019 |archive-date=11 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190911111337/https://www.iatul.org/ |url-status=live }}</ref> IFLA and LIBER.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://libereurope.eu/ |title=LIBER |access-date=29 July 2019 |archive-date=14 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240214200259/https://libereurope.eu/ |url-status=live }}</ref>{{nonspecific|date=January 2023}}

==See also== * List of libraries in the Republic of Ireland

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==External links== *[https://www.ucd.ie/library/ UCD Library website] *[https://ucd.summon.serialssolutions.com/ OneSearch - the library catalogue and more] *[https://digital.ucd.ie UCD Digital Library] *[https://researchrepository.ucd.ie UCD Research Repository]

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