2001/2002 - University College Cork Library

REPORT OF THE LIBRARY POLICY COMMITTEE 2001/2002
• Updating of journals finding list;
• Separation of 001-699 DDC stock run to allow for growth;
• Unpacking of other boxed collections.
A seminar on Remote Storage to which other University library staff were invited was
held in April. The inaugural meeting of the ALCID/CONUL Group on Cooperative
Collection Development, chaired by Max McCarthy, was held in April.
Activity 1999/00 2000/01 2001/02
Requests for documents 2,682 1,279 1,089
Proportion of requests (monographs) 40% 42% 100%
Proportion of requests (journal articles) 60% 55% none
Figure 8 - Store activities and statistics
Library Archives
Library Archivist: Ms. Carol Quinn
Working in accordance with the Library’s mission, the primary purpose of the
Archives Service is to support University College Cork’s research and teaching
programmes by providing access to archival collections and facilities which have been
developed to satisfy the research and information needs of the Library’s users.
Development of the service continues to be hampered by the lack of infrastructure. No
suitable storage area has been made available to the service, and these spatial
restrictions will pose difficulties for the accessioning of any major collections in the
near future.
Staff activities have concentrated on the listing of collections with the Bantry House
Collection nearing completion. Work has begun on the listing of the Nancy McCarthy
Papers, which it is hoped will form part of a major exhibition to commemorate the life
of Frank O’Connor planned for September 2003.
Collections Accessioned
An active collecting repository, the Archives Service accepts deposits of material
which meet its approved accessions policy. Because of the lack of storage space only
very small collections were accessioned in 2001/2002. These include:
BL/SC/01/4 Maura Twomey Collection (c. 1971 –1999) 46 items
Correspondence relating to the experience of Irish emigrants in Britain, donated by
Mrs Maura Twomey.
BL/P/TMD Thomas Mac Donagh Collection (1903 – 1916) 30 items
Transcripts of letters from Thomas Mac Donagh to his long-term friend Pádraig Mac
Suibhne, donated by Dr. Denis Wilson. The McDonough Collection is fully listed and
open to researchers.
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