Margaret Lantry

MA MA(Lib) MCLIP

Putting Data to Work! That means de-cluttering all that paper or files and packaging the information so that it becomes efficient and useful.
Do you have information that's just lying around? Do you want to access that information — whether it's on paper or in old computer files — in order to complete a project, tidy up the office, write a book? Do you need to know what's in all those files or boxes? I can take all your information, whether electronic or paper, and present it back to you in the format you need (including databases, presentations and websites).
Or, do you need a report prepared that includes a specification that will give a pathway to digitisation? I research and write reports set out the background, the project steps, the type of work that needs to be carried out, recommendations for best practice and standards, and the plan of work — my speciality is digitisation projects or software specification.
Are you writing a book or collecting information for another purpose? I do research at the major research institutions in Ireland and abroad and prepare reports.
Is your website in need of a new look? I will take your information (text, images, etc) and create a simple, easy-to-use, user-friendly website.

Background

Some of my services

Clients have included The National Museum of Ireland, The Hunt Museum, National Roads Authority, Cork City Council, Cork County Council, Blarney Castle Estate, University College Cork and private clients.

A selection of projects implemented include catalogue of Blarney Castle archive (now at CCCA), catalogue of the Ursuline Convent Blackrock (Cork) historical library and archive, the Department of Early & Medieval Irish, Celtic Digital Initiative, De Finibus websites at UCC, Irish Life and Lore (including e-commerce), Irish Texts Society, Cork Historical & Archaeological Society websites, catalogue of The Hunt Museum collection and The Hunt Museum provenance research and archives website design, catalogue of Sybil Connolly collection at The Hunt Museum, book indexes, confidential research services including family history, legal and provenance research.

Preparation of texts for publication

picture editor – researching images, securing intellectual rights and digital copies: Charles Brand Construction Story (forthcoming)

digitisation of 1969 PhD thesis with a view to editing for publication (forthcoming)

working with authors, proofing, editing, liaising with publisher: Editor, 7 volumes (2006-2012), Journal of the Cork Historical & Archaeological Society.

copy-editing, indexed, liaison wtih typesetter: Dwyers of Cork: a family business and a business family (Cork: Privately published, 2008)

proofread: Student of the Year 40th Anniversary Retrospective at The Lavit Gallery (Cork, 2007)

digitised images, copy-edited, indexed, typeset in Word: Antiquarians and archaeology in 19th century Cork BAR British Series 454 (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2008) ISBN 1407302507/ 9781407302508

proofread, indexed, liaison wtih typesetter, exhibition catalogue: A Celebration of Limerick's Silver (Cork: The Collins Press, 2007) ISBN 1905172559

proofread exhibition catalogue: Louis Le Brocquy – Allegory & Legend (Limerick: The Hunt Museum, 2006)

proofread, checked references The Honan Chapel – a golden vision (Cork University Press, 2004)

Research
Listing and cataloguing
Archival inventory and logistics
Proofing and copyediting
Presentations
Report writing
Digitisation
Data re-purposing
Websites

Chair, Cork County Council Heritage Forum

Member, Supervisors Committee, Credit Union (Cork)

Vice-President, Cork Historical & Archaelogical Society

Web page designed by Margaret Lantry.