Dr Kirsten Mulrennan is the Archivist for Engagement, Exhibition and Outreach in the Special Collections and Archives Department of the Glucksman Library, UL. She is responsible for faculty and student engagement with primary sources, and is the UL lead for the Wellcome-funded ‘New Jerusalems’ project on the Shannon Development Archive. She has worked as a professional archivist in a variety of services, including the National Archives of Ireland, the Military Archives and ESB Archives. She holds Ireland’s first PhD in Archivistics, and has lectured on the MA in Archives and Records Management at UCD. She was made an Honorary Fellow of the Department of History at UL in 2021, and is a member of CONUL’s Unique and Distinctive Collections Committee (UDC).