History of Cregan Library
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By 1884, St. Patrick's Training College had an established library. Over the following decades, the library moved to different locations within the college as new buildings were added. It started in the existing college buildings, moved to a new wing in 1887, and then to the old chapel building in 1968. The library continued changing locations, moving to E-Block in 1980 where it remained for several decades. Plans in the 2010s included promises of funding for a new library building, which began construction in 2011 and opened in February 2015.
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Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems
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Changes in vegetation cover refer to variations in the distribution, composition, and overall
structure of plant communities across different temporal and spatial scales. These changes can
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- 1. 1875St. Patrick’s Training College opens The history of the Library has never been collated and parts of it are patchy. What we do know, however, is that there was an established Library in St. Patrick’s College by 1884. Here is a timeline of the evidence from 1875 to present.
- 2. The Irish Times. 27th Oct., 1891 Address by Archbishop Walsh Source: Irish Newspaper Archive 1884 Library part of existing college buildings 1887 Plans made for a Library in new wing 1891 Building starts on the new wing
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- 8. 1965 New chapel built Irish press. 4th May, 1967 Source: Irish Newspaper Archive 1957 Another new Library…??
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- 18. To be continued…
- 19. www.isos.dias.ie