Re-launch of Dun’s Library’s online catalogue
Harriet Wheelock

Re-launch of Dun’s Library’s online catalogue


I am delighted to announce the re-launch of its online library catalogue. The online catalogue has been unavailable in recent months, as it was undergoing some essential maintenance work, but it now fully functional again.


Dun's Library contains about 30,000 book and journals, and is an important resource for research into the history of medicine and medical education in Ireland. Dun's Library is currently undertaking an e-cataloguing project to provide, for the first time, a complete catalogue of the library's holdings, which will be available online. At the present over 8,000 books have been catalogued, including some of Dun's Library's oldest and most valuable works. It is hoped that e-cataloguing of Dun's Library will be completed by 2013, to mark the 300th anniversary of death of Sir Patrick Dun, the founder of the library.

The online library catalogue can be accessed here. The online catalogue of RCPI's archive collections can be accessed here. The Wellcome Trust funded project to catalogue RCPI's entire archival holdings will be finishing in December 2011, by which time catalogues of the entire collection will be available.