Presented at CONUL conference, June 2016, Athlone, Ireland by Elizabeth Kirwan.

1. Village in the City:
Collaborating on National Photographic Archive exhibitions
Elizabeth M Kirwan
Curator / Manager
NLI’s National Photographic Archive
CONUL 2016, 2nd June 2016, Athlone
Going Further Together: Collaboration in Irish Academic and Research Libraries

2. National Photographic Archive (NPA)
• Text

3. NPA leased from DCC by OPW

4. NPA Collection

5. NPA Exhibitions

6. Recession, and reconsidering (N-1)

7. NPA exhibition partnerships 2010-15

8. Jeanette Lowe, Beach Boys

9. A proposal
NPA Reading Room
Jeanette Lowe PhotoIreland
exhibition, The Flats
NPA exhibition proposal
Living Archive
photo Donations
Dual location exhibition
The Gathering / Heritage
Week / Culture Night

10. NPA match
Photography,
Marketing, and
Creative Digital
Media
The Flats:
People’s Choice
Award, 2012
Grandmother,
Pearse House
flats resident,
1930s
National Cultural
Institutions
Committee,
Mansion House
Temple Bar
Cultural Trust,
DCC
NPA, indirect
contribution to
local economy

12. Corporation green

13. Installation

14. Heritage grey
• Text

15. Living memory

16. Culture Night 2013

17. Official opening

18. 8th August - 6th October 2013
Unique
collaboration
NPA, DCC
and Artist
17,019 ‘on
foot’ NPA
visitors
Boosting
local
pride
www.facebook.
com/Pearseho
use/
DCC dual
location
walking
tours
Supporting
local
business

19. Reviews

20. Writing on the Wall
Moving beyond
didacticism
Daring to dream,
collaboratively, delivering
inclusiveness
Dynamic,
experiential,
connectedCollecting
beyond
the
NPA/NLI.