The National Library of Ireland is now on YouTube

The National Library of Ireland have taken to YouTube, with a bunch of helpful 'how to' videos on their channel.

NLI already have a huge online presence on social media platforms such as Twitter and Flickr, but their new step-by-step videos are a great help when searching their site for items like books and photographs.

The five videos detail how to locate any of the 487,683 searchable items, order material online, and register a user's ticket.

When speaking to the Digital Times, Caroline Montgomery, who produced the videos, said that 'we hope [the videos] will make it easier for online visitors to navigate their way through the NLI's collections and quickly find what they need.'

Take a look at a couple of them below.

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1. How to search the catalogue at the National Library of Ireland

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2. How to search the photograph collection

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3. How to find a newspaper 

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For more of the videos visit their YouTube channel here.