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Title page showing an elephant in a circle.

To tie into the themed display ‘Black History Month’ in this on-going series … from The River-side I’ve chosen first edition poetry books by Langston Hughes and Colleen...

Welcome to the first post in a new series of blog posts: … from The River-side. This series will tie into the themed displays on...

Word cloud of words used in recipes.

The River-side welcomes this guest post from Cara Long and David Leen, student workers with the Academic Communication and Technology team in UCC Library. Cara...

View of Crosshaven in Co Cork on an old postcard.

The River-side welcomes this guest post from Kian O’Mahony, a student on the 2021/2022 MA in History in UCC, that includes the HI6063: Work Placement and Portfolio module. Kian spent...

Selection of images showing the baking process.

Pi and Pi Day Pi is often represented by the lower-case Greek letter π and it is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its...

UCC Library’s Special Collections & Archives has rich Irish language collections including: These collections stand along-side fine printing of Irish language and literature books and...

Pencil & line drawing of countryside by Bantry: hills and the harbour.

When my colleague Elaine Harrington proposed UCC Library’s Special Collections & Archives contribute to the #ColourOurCollections colouring festival I wondered what would work from the...

Following on from Elaine’s post yesterday, I am going to discuss two items I selected from our Cartographic Visual Collection for use in our #ColourOurCollections...

“Following on from John’s post yesterday, I am going to discuss a page I selected from the Elizabeth Friedlander Collection for use in our #ColourOurCollections colouring book.” When it...

What is #ColourOurCollections? Colour Our Collections is an annual international colouring festival on social media where libraries, museums, archives and other cultural institutions share free colouring...

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