visited in 2016 and took some fantastic shots. Book of Kells is right there, too!
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Okay, but would you happen to have—
Yup, got that one too. We got em all, sonny.
I'm gonna look this up after I comment and either make a fool of myself or not but I believe they're one of a small number of libraries that get shipped basically every book on it's publication.
Edit: Partly correct. It is a "legal deposit" so all Irish books get added (along with the foreign books they have / want). Other countries have their own legal deposits.
Amazing lol. So how much room is there, really? Are there empty shelves since construction, ready to fill, or do they have to do some culling every now and then?
That room is full to the brim since forever. The building it's in is maybe 150 - 200 metres long iirc and has other stuff in it too.
The college itself is over 400 years old. I'm not sure where they would store all the new books tbh. There is another library in the building opposite it I think. The campus itself is large though and they have other areas outside the main one. Good question though.
Alright, thanks for the insight 😁
I love a grand old library. It's one of the few moments I'm proud of humans as a species/collective.