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Tag Archives: archival collections
Community Week: Ye Olde Social Media
This year Special Collections & Archives took part in UCC’s Community Week #MakingWaves. Community Week is a week long programme of free public events celebrating community engagement with UCC across our campus and beyond. During the year groups and communities … Continue reading
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Tagged apps, archival collections, blogging, cartography, Community Week, decree, Google Maps, graphic design, Instagram, maps, news, pinterest, playbill advertising, popup advertising, postcards, social media, special collections, Twitter, UCC
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Portal to the Past – You’ll be surprised what you find in the Archives
Taking up from Emma Horgan’s post last week I’d like to introduce some of the thought-processes behind our choice of images. From past experience when I introduce the idea of what archival material is, some people can look blankly at … Continue reading
Posted in Archives Service, Display, Exhibitions, Photographs, Special Collections, Special Collections & Archives, Students, Teaching & Learning
Tagged archival collections, Archives, Archivist, Archivist Blogs, Coal Quay, Cork City, Font, George Boole, graphic design, Photographs, Portal to the Past, postcards, sketchbooks, UCC Library Archives Service, West Cork
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Portal to the Past- Discover what you’ll find in the Archive
In a follow up to Elaine Harrington’s previous post, I will be examining in more detail, the first of the images from the archival collections, outlining why we chose them to be displayed on the wall. Firstly, the criteria underlying … Continue reading
Portal to the Past! You’ll Be Surprised By What Can Find!
Have you spotted the new wall design outside Special Collections & Archives? In an age where people use and rely on the web and digital content we wanted to show we are more than old text-based documents or old and … Continue reading
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Tagged advertising label, archival collections, bookmarks, bookplates, business archives, collections, graphic design, landed estates, manuscripts, maps, notepaper, Photographs, Portal to the Past, postcards, Printed books, sketchbooks, special collections, visual
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