The purpose of the display in the Rare Books Reading Rooms is to showcase the range that may be in any one collection as well as to demonstrate how collections in UCC Library's Special Collections & Archives interconnect.
Previous Six-Month Exhibitions/Displays
Previous Year-Long Displays
For 2019 the year long display focused on the Noel O'Connell and Irish Literary Society Collections. Both collections are particularly strong on Irish Studies. The introduction discusses each collection and how they came to UCC Library.
In 2018 the year long displayed focused on the Hawtin Collection which is particularly rich with 19th century and early 20th century printings.
