📢 ANNUAL SEMINAR 📢 The LAI Rare Books Group is delighted to announce our annual seminar for 2024: Bookcraft. Join us for a day of fascinating talks about printing, binding, paper-marbling, bookcraft cataloguing and more. Details & booking at the link: https://t.co/uWxx5s7AsG

Happy Halloween!!! How cute is this spooky little ghostie knitted/crocheted using a 3D printed peg square. 👻👻👻

It is almost Halloween....👻have you found all 13 scary images from our special collections? If not, check out our fun Halloween experience below and turn up the volume!👇

Happy Halloween!☠️🎃 Are you thinking of dressing up this year? This guy couldn't decide if they wanted to be a turtle or a bird but decided on a hybrid "birtle"..😂either way it's going to be cold today so they needed a nice little woolly hat. #halloween2024

This Sunday 13th, immerse yourself in all things creepy with our 2024 Halloween Virtual Experience with @MULibraryMaker -featuring selected images from the collections of @StPatsMaynooth, @library_MU and @rcblibrary!🎃#Halloween2024 Enter if you dare... https://t.co/rtegwHjS2X🧙‍♀️

Have a read of our latest post, if you want to get in the spirit! 🧟‍♀️👻 https://t.co/S6IApoF1gq #halloween #samhain #irishfolklore #Banshee

Recently I began work on the lovely Gaelic manuscripts bequeathed by Laurence Renehan, bibliophile & former President of @MaynoothUni 🎓 There’s nothing like the feeling of starting to catalogue a new collection. Who knows what I’ll find! 🕵🏼‍♀️ #Fridayfeeling #Irishmanuscripts

Today we welcomed Professor Aiden Mulkeen to the Library to thank him for his support and contributions to the Library over the past number of years. #MULibrary

Congratulations to our colleague Yvette Campbell, @RareBookYvette who was elected as Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. @RoyalHistSoc champions historical scholarship in schools, higher education, and across the heritage sector.

Join us for Heritage Week at the Russell Library, we will be hosting scheduled library tours, family-friendly activities and a special exhibition of Ex Libris bookplates. For more see: https://t.co/yVXIU8i0NR #rarebooks #specialcollections #bookplates #exlibris @SCA_MULibrary

What personalised bookplates tell us can be "much more fascinating stories than in the books themselves", as a visitor rightly remarked! Identifying with Books - an Exhibition of Ex Libris Bookplates launched for #HeritageWeek2024 ✨More on our Instagram: specialibrary_mu✨

📣New blog post alert📬+ Ex Libris Series launch https://t.co/x5PqK5qJGp We will be diving deeper with more Ex Libris images & insights here in the coming days and weeks! #exlibris #bookplates #exhibition #rarebooks #hiddenlibrary #printdesign #illustration

Today in our #ExLibrisSeries : Ex Libris Robert J. Grainger. The Latin motto expresses ‘Be what you seem to be’. But look closer and you'll find what is most interesting here...🔎🧵(1 of 5) #rarebooks #illustration #bookstagram

A photograph taken c.1958 of the housemaid Julia in a yard with the farm cats at @AirfieldEstate #InternationalCatDay

Today we say farewell to our brilliant MLIS intern Claire Davin @UCD_iSchool who has done tremendous work with us over the last 4 weeks cataloguing the Furlong Collection. Thank you and best of luck in your future Claire! #FridayFeeling

Read the latest piece on our blog 'The Ardtully Papers: A packet of letters and their survival' by Elizabeth Knowles. https://t.co/hdi3Pvndcu

Read our latest blog post on MU Library Treasures, about digitising our collections for @library_MU Digital Library https://t.co/M9yC1f926L

An all too rare chance to admire some traditional librarianship this morning with a visit to our revamped, reorganised & rather grandly titled Kildare Store. Well done all involved. This work plays a vital, if unseen, part in making the current refurbishment of @library_MU work!

It was such a pleasure to host the #ErasmusDub24 delegation @library_MU today, we hope their day was a memorable one🙂

Delighted to welcome our Erasmus visitors 2024 to Special Collections & Archives at Maynooth to view a selection from the collections @StPatsMaynooth