The Architecture Library holds over 25,000 books on architecture and planning. Most of these are available for loan and they include the following subject areas: architectural history and theory, architectural practice and management, building types, landscape and interior design, materials, structural engineering, urban history and town planning, surveying, tourism, conservation, sociology, green issues, forestry, transport and retailing.
Biographies, bibliographies, dictionaries, directories, encyclopaedias, glossaries, etc.
Through Archinfo books can also be borrowed from the Main Library in Belfield, the Veterinary College Library, the Medical and Engineering Library in Earlsfort Terrace and the Business School in Blackrock.
Books in all these locations can be searched through UCD's Library catalogue (OPAC)
Books can be quickly reserved or renewed over the phone.
Ennis, Portlaoise, Wicklow, Letterkenny, Tullamore, Kilkenny, Longford, Clonmel,
Galway and Ballina.
Each organisation is given a borrowers card which allows
the company to borrow up to fifteen books at one time for a loan
period of one month.
Duchas, the heritage service, is surveying the architectural heritage of Irish towns.
To date the published volumes cover:
These reports, which include maps, are now available in Richview Library.
Check our holdings on the UCD Library Catalogue
Periodicals section.
Some 200 current titles are subscribed to and the Library also holds runs
of journals which have ceased publication.
University College Galway
Queen's University Belfast
The British Library
Trinity College Dublin
COPAC (unified access to the catalogues
of some of the largest research Libraries in the UK and Ireland)
All of the above libraries make their material available for borrowing so items not held in the Architecture Library can be obtained from these.