Collection
Focus: national.
Consists of: architectural drawings, both individual drawings and complete archives; documents/correspondence; models; photographs, both vintage and newly commissioned; slides; ephemera.
Strengths: 350,000 photographs; 80,000 drawings of buildings throughout Ireland; also 2,000 biographical files on Irish architects.
Collection accessible through inventories, card catalogue.
Reproduction of drawings made photocopies and photographic prints.
Institution does not have a conservation laboratory.
Library Holdings
Holdings: about 2,000 books, 2,500 pamphlets; mainly on Irish architecture, and particular buildings in Ireland, but also covering general architectural history and practice.