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| Co-operation and access schemes in Irish libraries 3. Third Level Education Libraries and Information Services All Irish university libraries are legal deposit libraries for the Republic of Ireland. Trinity College Library is also a legal deposit library for the United Kingdom. The libraries of NUI, Maynooth, TCD, UCC and UCD are European Documentation Centres. 3.1 ALCID (Academic Libraries Co-operating in Dublin) ALCID is a co-operative arrangement between the Libraries of Dublin City University, University College Cork, National University of Ireland Galway, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Royal Irish Academy, Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, University of Limerick, Mater Dei Institute of Education, St Patrick's College Drumcondra, Dublin Institute of Technology and St. Angela's College Sligo. ALCID enables access to the collections of each of the participating libraries, without formality, on production of a common ALCID membership card for full-time academics, academic-related staff and registered students reading for higher degrees. 3.2 ANLTC (Academic and National Library Training Co-operative) The NLI and the universitiy libraries have joined forces to identify training needs within Irish academic libraries in order to form the basis of an ongoing co-operative training and development programme. This training supplements each institution's own programme and through joint group consultation aims to offer a wide range of training opportunities to library staff at an economical rate. Co-operative training also enables staff to meet colleagues from other institutions. See http://www.anltc.ie for more details. 3.3 Iris IRIS OPAC provides online search facilities across multiple catalogues to over 3.5 million bibliographic records from Irish collections, plus over 20 million catalogue records from leading research libraries in the UK and US. It is a Z39.50 web gateway, providing access to the collective library catalogues of
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