Founded in 1592, Trinity College, Dublin, is the oldest and most renowned university in Ireland. It is situated in a park in the city centre and possesses a number of libraries, the most famous of which is the Old Library, dating from 1732, where the Book of Kells is on display. The Berkeley and the Lecky Libraries were added in the 1960s and 70s. A competition was held in 1998 to link these structures with a new library named after Archbishop James Ussher. To confine the control functions to a single point and to separate the streams of tourists from the students, access to the new building is via the Berkeley Library. The architects created an extensive plinth structure and set three granite-clad volumes on top: a low book-conservation block; a six-storey book-storage tower; and a lower building housing the reading places.