• In 1941, National Library Director Richard J. Hayes launched a
vast cataloguing and indexing project which would run for over
30 years.
• The print Index is held in Magee, Coleraine and Jordanstown
LRCs.
• “The records created by the original team of researchers have
been digitised and encoded, and over 180,000 records for Irish
manuscript and periodical material are now freely searchable
online through this beta launch of Sources: a National Library
of Ireland database for Irish Research.”
We will start with the Browse option
Browse takes you to an interactive map where you can browse
relevant archives worldwide.
These, for example, are European locations of archives with
materials of Irish interest
Here are locations in the UK and Ireland
…and in Ireland - Wexford
Wexford
Wexford and outlying area
Wexford in more detail
St Peter’s College
Manuscripts in St Peter’s College, Wexford
In this search the
Mss are sorted for you,
by resource type,
subjects, people
and dates These filters are
known in the database
as facets
When you select a record you get…
You also get links to
similar items
These are all links . For example
If you click on forfeited estates
you get records for this
Further
information about
the manuscript
470 results
You can also browse by city.
…and you can do a search by, title, people or subject
For example here is
a crown rents subject
search
results
The search brought
together crown lands
and rents but there are
filters to help you refine
your search
facets
We will select the Crown
Rents heading in the
Subject filter
Notice that there are
further facets for
these 18 results
Visible in this slide
are people,
dates, places, archives
Here is the
manuscript we
looked at earlier
We will select
Belfast Public Record Office
Here are the 2 crown rent
records in PRONI (Belfast
Public Record Office)
If you select a repository
you get all the mss indexed
by the database in that
repository or archive
You can get RSS feed, you can email
results, and you can bookmark.
You can also look at recent searches
Here, for example, are the first records of 5935 listed in the
database and which are housed the Records Office in Belfast
(PRONI or Public Record Office of Northern Ireland)
Record elements
Clicking on the title gives
more information about
the record and links
to similar items
Clicking on the name will
give all records linked to
that name
And as stated earlier
clicking on the Archive
gives all records in that
Archive indexed by
the database
By default, searches are carried out across both manuscript and
periodical records. You can filter the search results to show only
journal articles or manuscripts by clicking on a facet under
Resource.
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We will go back to our original crown rents subject search
If we scroll down
the page
we get more facets
One of these is journals,
in this case
Analecta Hibernica
Click on this
…and this is the result
Just as we were able to get all indexed records from PRONI
in an earlier example, so we can also get all
Analecta Hibernica indexed sources by clicking on Analecta
Hibernica
…and here are the first three of 181 results
Another example: this time the forfeited estates we looked at
earlier.
You can filter the results by
resource type.
Again, we will select
Journal article
Here we have 4 of
the 25 journal citations
And if we click on the citation:
The Journal of the Cork Historical
and Archaeological Society,
we get…
2301 results
At the drop down menu
we can sort the results
in an ascending or
descending order.
We will select
descending order
Here we have the 2301 results
starting with the latest indexed
Issue in the database
If we click on any article
let’s say this one…
…we get information on the complete
holdings of the journal in the
National Library of Ireland. This may
be greater than what is indexed in the
Sources database
NLI holdings for the Journal of the Cork Historical and
Archaeological Society
If we click on Worldcat or Copac
we get holdings elsewhere.
Copac is good for UK holdings
You can also download a list of the journals indexed in the
database
Click on the following link for a list of these
journals
http://screencast.com/t/YzMxN2FiY
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Some of these journals are in the University of Ulster Library.
Go to the Catalogue’s basic search
At the title box key in the journal title
At the drop-down menu select the journals catalogue
Click on search
If we have the title then click on show library holdings to find which
LRC holds the print title
We also hold some of these journals in electronic format.
For example Irish historical studies is held in electronic full text
format in the Jstor database and in print format in Coleraine,
Jordanstown and Magee LRCs
If you need any further help, please contact Lewis Childs, the
Arts subject librarian, in the Magee LRC