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George Boole: Academic, Author, Husband and Father
This highlights additional original George Boole material or Boole-related information that forms part of George Boole archives at UCC Library. Continue reading
Posted in Archives Service, Special Collections & Archives
Tagged archival collections, Archives, Cork, Father, George Boole, George Boole 200, Logic, Mary Everest Boole, Mathematics, Mother, Purcells Commercial Cork Almanac, Royal Irish Academy, Sir Geoffrey Taylor, The Laws of Thought, The Papers of George Boole, UCC Library, UCC Library Archives Service
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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
Posted in Special Collections & Archives
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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