Description
The 65-metre-long (213 ft) main chamber of the Old Library, the Long Room, was built between 1712 and 1732 and houses 200,000 of the Library's oldest books. The Library of Trinity College Dublin serves Trinity College. It is a legal deposit or 'copyright library, under which, publishers in Ireland must deposit a copy of all their publications there, without charge. One of the four volumes of the Book of Kells is on public display at any given time.