The Design Library has the world's largest and best organised collections of documentary fabrics, original paintings, wallpapers, embroideries and yarn dyes. It's US collection is vast, held across a 12,000 square foot loft in a converted fabric mill in New York’s Hudson Valley, where over 7 million examples of textiles, wallpapers, pattern books and embroideries are stored. In London, its building is more modest, situated just off Oxford Street, but its collection is still eye-popping, including samples of designs stretching back to the 18th century and from all over the world.
The Design Library is not open to the public but is used extensively by fashion designers and is the professional source for surface design, clients are fashion, home, packaging and paper industries.
Check out their website and take a tour below http://www.design-library.com
Reserve your copy of Inside the Design Library by Peter Koepke in Grangegorman Library.
Hope you didn't have too scary a weekend! Back to normal here in the library at Grangegorman.
Our opening hours are: 9:30 - 9:30 Monday to Thursday, 9:30 - 5:15 on Friday, and Saturdays from 10am - 5pm.
Why not drop in and catch up on that study you've meaning to do?
Or use one of our Group Study Rooms to work on a project together?
Or even browse through our books and journals and find that vital bit of information you've been missing...
The library staff are always here to help, so call into the library- you never know what you might find!
The library at Grangegorman will be closed this Saturday the 29th of October, and Monday the 31st of October for the Halloween bank holiday.
We will be back open on Tuesday the 1st of November as normal. Our opening hours are Monday- Thursday 9:30-9:30, Friday 9:30-5:15, and Saturday 10-5pm.
Please check our website for any updates on our opening hours.
Happy Halloween, and have a great (but spooky) bank holiday weekend!
A joint Arts Council/ESRI study based on the Growing Up in Ireland studies, has found that children's involvement in the arts has a positive effect on their ability to copy with school and school work. "The study, which is being published by the Arts Council today, has identified that children aged 9 who frequently read and attend classes in music, dance or drama have an improved 'academic self-image'...by the age of 13. They are also happier, have reduced anxiety, better academic skills and fewer socio-emotional difficulties"
For more information about this study read the full Arts Council article here
Congratulations to Marguerite Diamond, Amanda Leenheer, and Maria Suszek who recently won the 2016 National Social Enterprise award from SPARK. The award winners are 2016 graduates of the BA Early Childhood Education course.
You can read more about SPARK, and the 2016 awards here
It is a brilliant achievement and we wish them the best of luck in the future with it.
Hope you didn't have too scary a weekend! Back to normal here in the library at Grangegorman.
The library at Grangegorman will be closed this Saturday the 29th of October, and Monday the 31st of October for the Halloween bank holiday.
A joint Arts Council/ESRI study based on the Growing Up in Ireland studies, has found that children's involvement in the arts has a positive effect on their ability to copy with school and school work. "The study, which is being published by the Arts Council today, has identified that children aged 9 who frequently read and attend classes in music, dance or drama have an improved 'academic self-image'...by the age of 13. They are also happier, have reduced anxiety, better academic skills and fewer socio-emotional difficulties"
Congratulations to Marguerite Diamond, Amanda Leenheer, and Maria Suszek who recently won the 2016 National Social Enterprise award from SPARK. The award winners are 2016 graduates of the BA Early Childhood Education course.