RTÉ Libraries and Archives

The RTÉ Archives and Libraries are a collection of photographs, sounds recordings, video footage and written records (of articles such as scripts) in various formats across a wide range of topics pertaining to Irish life and society.[1]

RTÉ Libraries and Archives
RTÉ Archives logo 2015
Region served
Ireland
Official language
English/Irish
Websitewww.rte.ie/archives/

The collection is derived from the material used by Raidió Teilifís Éireann in their activities as national broadcaster for Ireland.

As RTÉ is part funded by a licence fee from Irish householders with televisions, it has a significant responsibility to maintain and update this collection and make it available to the general public.

In common with most broadcasters, much of their early material was never recorded, tapes wiped for re-use, or just simply junked. With their entire archive being digitised, and re-used in newer programmes, apart from tbe historical material you'd expect, its revealing some quite interesting examples of tv programming that were chosen to be kept, extracts, if not entire series runs.

The RTÉ Archives logo incorporates RTÉ current corporate logo with a take on the 1967 corporate logo for the word archive. There are two versions of the logo, generally the first letter of the word Archive is used (as see in description box) but also where the full word is used.

See also

References
  1. "RTÉ Libraries and Archives". Libraries and Archives. Retrieved 2009-07-28.
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