James Hardiman Library
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The James Hardiman Library ({{langx|ga|Leabharlann Shéamais Uí Argadáin}}) serves the University of Galway in Ireland. It is a legal deposit or "copyright library", which means that publishers in the country must deposit a copy of all their publications there, free of charge. The James Hardiman Library is home to an extensive range of cultural artefacts, particularly relating to the history of theatre. This includes the largest digital theatre archive in the world, a joint project with The Abbey, Ireland's national theatre, to preserve material that institution has compiled since its foundation. Other theatre archives found at the James Hardiman Library include those of the Gate Theatre, An Taibhdhearc (the national Irish language theatre), the Lyric Theatre and the Druid Theatre Company (Ireland's first professional theatre company established outside Dublin). In addition, manuscripts collected by Douglas Hyde, the first President of Ireland, are deposited at the James Hardiman Library, as is a manuscript personally donated by James Joyce in 1932.
"Access to Research at NUI Galway" (ARAN) is the university's repository of research publications, including peer-reviewed articles, working papers and conference papers by the university's researchers, and is maintained by the James Hardiman Library.{{cite web|url=http://aran.library.nuigalway.ie/xmlui/|title=Welcome to ARAN|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150604190020/http://aran.library.nuigalway.ie/xmlui/|archivedate=4 June 2015}}
Location
The James Hardiman Library is situated centrally, close to the Concourse, the Arts Millennium Building and Áras na Gaeilge.
History
The Library is named in honour of James Hardiman, who was the university's first librarian.
Legal deposit library status
According to the Ireland's Copyright and Related Rights Act, 2000, the James Hardiman Library is entitled, along with the National Library of Ireland, the British Library and Trinity College Library, as well as libraries at UCC, UCD, MU, UL, and DCU, to receive a copy of all works published in the Republic of Ireland. Section 198(1) of the Act states "the publisher of any book published in the state, shall, within one month after publication, deliver, at his or her own expense, a copy of the book to each of the following…", then lists the libraries concerned.{{cite web|url=https://www.tcd.ie/library/collection-man/legal-deposit.php|title=Legal Deposit (Copyright Libraries)|work=Trinity College Dublin|accessdate=16 November 2018}}
Archives
The James Hardiman Library houses more than three hundred archival collections which range from the fifteenth century onwards.{{cite web|url=http://www.nuigalway.ie/colleges-and-schools/arts-social-sciences-and-celtic-studies/humanities/disciplines-centres/irish-studies/archive-resources/|title=Archive Resources|accessdate=14 October 2018}} Numerous archives relating to literature, theatre and other items of cultural merit to be found there include the following:
=History=
- A collection of books about the Williamite Wars (1689-91) in Ireland and its aftermath, donated by the son of a graduate of the University
=Literature=
- Douglas Hyde's manuscript collections of poetry and folklore he gathered
- An original edition of Pomes Penyeach, personally donated by James Joyce in 1932 after its publication in Paris, and printed on rare Japanese paper complete with illustrations by the writer's daughter Lucia.{{cite news|url=http://nuigarchives.blogspot.ie/2012/08/nui-galway-archives-brings-you-culture_28.html|title=NUI Galway Archives brings you Culture Night 2012|date=28 August 2012|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150519160828/http://nuigarchives.blogspot.ie/2012/08/nui-galway-archives-brings-you-culture_28.html|archivedate=19 May 2015}}
- The John McGahern Archive (John McGahern)
- The Thomas Kilroy Collection (Thomas Kilroy): Available from August 2011,{{cite web|url=http://library.nuigalway.ie/collections/archives/depositedcollections/featuredcollections/thomaskilroycollection/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111129234204/http://library.nuigalway.ie/collections/archives/depositedcollections/featuredcollections/thomaskilroycollection/|url-status=dead|archive-date=29 November 2011|title=Thomas Kilroy Collection|date=29 November 2011|quote=The collection is being processed and will be available to researchers from August 2011.}} this archive includes Kilroy's academic criticism, papers relating to his board membership of The Field Day Theatre Company and his collaboration with The Abbey Theatre, as well as notes, drafts, scripts, and production material relating to all of Kilroy's plays. Correspondence featured includes from the Seamuses: Deane and Heaney; Mary Lavin, John McGahern, various agents, publishers, theatre practitioners and the general public. On 22 March 2011, a public interview with Kilroy, moderated by Professor Adrian Frazier (with an introduction by Doctor Lionel Pilkington), was held at the University of Galway to mark the donation; amongst those in attendance were Brian Friel and Michael D. Higgins.{{cite web|url=http://library.nuigalway.ie/collections/archives/depositedcollections/featuredcollections/thomaskilroycollection/|title=Thomas Kilroy Collection|accessdate=14 October 2018|archive-date=29 November 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111129234204/http://library.nuigalway.ie/collections/archives/depositedcollections/featuredcollections/thomaskilroycollection/|url-status=dead}}
- Máirtín Ó Direáin{{cite news|title=University news: Gate Theatre Archives|work=Cois Coiribe|date=Autumn 2016|page=10|quote=In other archival news, in May 2016, NUI Galway announced receipt of a significant donation of books about the Williamite Wars (1689-91) in Ireland and its aftermath, from Colman Morrissey, son of a graduate of the university, Meanwhile, a collection of artefacts relating to the life and work of Irish language poet, Máirtín Ó Direáin, was also generously given to the University in June 2016.}}
- The literary papers of Eoghan Ó Tuairisc
=Theatre=
- The Taibhdhearc na Gaillimhe Archive (Taibhdhearc na Gaillimhe){{cite news|first=Eamon|last=Maher|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/revisiting-walter-macken-s-connemara-1.1499006|title=Revisiting Walter Macken's Connemara|work=The Irish Times|date=20 August 2013|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20181116234214/https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/revisiting-walter-macken-s-connemara-1.1499006|archivedate=16 November 2018|quote=Perhaps the archive of An Taidhbhearc theatre at the James Hardiman Library in NUI Galway may draw attention to the seminal work he carried out at this important artistic venue.}}
- The Druid Theatre Archive (Druid Theatre Company)
- The Lyric Theatre, Belfast Archive
- The Siobhán McKenna Archive (Siobhán McKenna){{cite web|url=https://www.nuigalway.ie/drama/theatrearchivesandresearchresources/|title=NUI Galway Theatre Archives|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140815143139/https://www.nuigalway.ie/drama/theatrearchivesandresearchresources/|archivedate=15 August 2014}}
- The Arthur Shields Archive (Arthur Shields)
- In 2012, the Abbey Theatre and NUI Galway formed a partnership to digitise the Abbey Theatre archive,{{cite web|url=https://www.abbeytheatre.ie/archives/digital_archive_project/|title=NUI Galway & Abbey Theatre Digital Archive|accessdate=12 May 2016}} billed as the largest digital theatre archive in the world.{{cite news|first=Lorna|last=Siggins|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/stage/digitised-abbey-theatre-archive-exhibition-due-to-open-at-nui-galway-1.1779356|title=Digitised Abbey Theatre archive exhibition due to open at NUI Galway|work=The Irish Times|date=1 May 2014|accessdate=1 May 2014}}
- In 2016, digitisation of the Gate Theatre archives commenced.{{cite web|url=http://www.nuigalway.ie/gatetheatre/gatetheatredigitisationproject/|title=Gate Theatre Digitisation Project|accessdate=12 May 2016}}
- The John Arden and Margaretta D'Arcy Archive (John Arden and Margaretta D'Arcy) launched on 24 November 2017.{{cite web|url=http://www.conference.ie/Conferences/index.asp?Conference=541|title=Launch of the John Arden and Margaretta D'Arcy Archive|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171114035103/http://conference.ie/Conferences/index.asp?Conference=541|archivedate=14 November 2017}}
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=Other=
- The Galway Arts Festival Archive (Galway Arts Festival)
- The Brendan Duddy Archive (Brendan Duddy), papers deposited in 2009, unveiled at a symposium in November 2011 attended by Michael Oatley and Seán Ó hUigínn{{cite news|url=http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/1122/duddyb.html|title=Brendan Duddy Archive opened at NUI Galway|work=RTÉ News|publisher=Raidió Teilifís Éireann|date=22 November 2011|accessdate=22 November 2011}}{{cite news|first=Lorna|last=Siggins|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/archive-reveals-peace-contact-s-role-1.15202|title=Archive reveals peace contact's role|work=The Irish Times|date=23 November 2011|accessdate=23 November 2011}}
- In 2014 the Kevin Boyle (lawyer) archive was added for the study of human rights.{{citation needed|date=October 2018}}
Constituent buildings
According to an internal newsletter from February 2009, the James Hardiman Library at that time spanned four floors and housed 424,843 books and 1,645 study spaces.{{cite web|url=http://content.yudu.com/A148ib/Libraryfeb/resources/index.htm?referrerUrl=http%3A%2F%2Flogin.yudu.com%2FYudu%2FmanageBookStaging.htm%3FnodeId%3D1877267|title=inform: James Hardiman Library Newsletter, February 2009|accessdate=13 May 2016}}
The new Nursing & Midwifery Library opened in June 2009. It spans three floors and can be accessed via the James Hardiman Library.{{cite web|url=http://www.library.nuigalway.ie/usingthelibrary/studyspace/nursingandmidwiferylibrary/|title=Nursing and Midwifery Library|publisher=James Hardiman Library|accessdate=13 May 2016|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160617145719/http://www.library.nuigalway.ie/usingthelibrary/studyspace/nursingandmidwiferylibrary/|archivedate=17 June 2016}}{{cite web|url=https://library.nuigalway.ie/usingthelibrary/findingyourwayaround/floorplans/nursinglibrary/|title=Floor plan|publisher=Nursing & Midwifery Library|accessdate=20 December 2018}} The university's Nursing Library had previously been located in Dangan.{{fact|date=June 2020}}
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External links
- [https://library.universityofgalway.ie James Hardiman Library]
- [https://search.library.nuigalway.ie/primo-explore/search?vid=353GAL_VUJ&sortby=rank Search the Library's catalogue]
- [https://library.universityofgalway.ie/collections/ Collections] at the University of Galway
- [https://www.universityofgalway.ie/gatetheatre/theatrearchivesatnuigalway/ Theatre Archives] at the University of Galway
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