The reimagined and extended Glucksman Library is designed to transform the Library and the University for scholarship in a digital age.
Over one million people visit the Library each year.
The building includes:
- Seating for 2,200 people
- Study areas for silent, quiet and group work
- Graduate Commons
- Over 150 PCs for student use
- Wireless access throughout the Library
- Faculty Reading Room
- Digital Scholarship studio
- Group study, meeting and training rooms
- Moot Appellate Court
- Presentation practice room
- Exhibition space
Library Collections
The Library provides full access to high-quality academic information and resources. Collections include:
- 350,000 printed books, journals, newspapers, theses and magazines
- 270,000 e-books
- 62,000 e-journals
- 200 electronic databases
The University’s institutional repository ULIR contains UL’s research output
Special Collections & Archives contains the library’s collections of archives, rare books and manuscripts relating particularly to the history, literature and culture of Limerick and the Mid-West region.
The Library has assumed care of the Bolton Library; a collection of 12,000 early printed books, manuscripts and incunabulae of exceptional academic and bibliographic importance.
Other collections include; The National Dance Archive of Ireland, the Gilsenan Yeats collection, the Armstrong Collection, the Daly Family Papers and a Kate O'Brien Archive.
Access by appointment only.
Library Services
Our staff aim to provide a high quality, personal and friendly service in a student-centred, supportive environment.
Services include:
- Self-service borrowing & return
- Laptop lending
- Ask-Us online information service
- Information Desk service
- Subject-specialist assistance from faculty librarians
- Research services
- Inter-Library Loans (ILL)
- Information skills training
- Referencing skills support
- New student support service
- Visitor access to other libraries
- Online group study room booking
- Fee based service for alumni, members of the public and industry
Library Opening Hours
The Library building may be used by registered faculty, staff and students of the University.
