Legal Deposit
Legal Deposit is the statutory obligation on publishers and distributors to deposit at least one copy of every publication, free of charge, in designated legal deposit libraries. Legal Deposit benefits authors, publishers, researchers and the general public because it helps to ensure that:
- The nation’s published output is collected systematically and becomes part of the national heritage
- Publications are recorded in the online catalogues of legal deposit libraries and become an essential research resource
- Deposited publications are made available to users of the deposit libraries on their premises
- Published material is preserved for the use of future generations
Legal Deposit Requirements
When ATU is the publisher of a book it must adhere to the legal deposit requirements. For every book published by the University, one copy must be sent to the following libraries:
- National Library of Ireland
- Trinity College Library
- University College Dublin Library
- Dublin City University Library
- University of Galway Library
- Maynooth University Library
- University College Cork Library
- University of Limerick Library
A copy must also be sent to
Copies may also be claimed by:
- Bodlean Library (Oxford)
- Cambridge University Library
- National Library of Scotland
- National Library of Wales
The person producing the book can do this, or if they wish, they can send the required number of copies to Yeats Library. Library staff will then take care off the legal deposit requirements on their behalf.
