Irish Joint Fiction Reserve Scheme

This is a shared scheme agreed by library authorities with An Chomhairle Leabharlanna to retain in-print and out-of-print fiction for lending purposes to library users throughout the island of Ireland and further afield.

This scheme was set up in 1965. There are 76,000 items currently in the collection. The reserve is held in library-repositories throughout the country with each participating library undertaking to store books by an author whose surname begins with an allocated letter.

Guidelines about the Irish Joint Fiction Reserve Scheme (IJFRS) and the participating libraries are available here.