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National Library of Scotland

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National Library of Scotland
National Library of Scotland
National Library of Scotland
National Library of Scotland
National Library of Scotland
National Library of Scotland
National Library of Scotland
National Library of Scotland
National Library of Scotland
National Library of Scotland
National Library of Scotland
National Library of Scotland
National Library of Scotland
National Library of Scotland
National Library of Scotland
National Library of Scotland
National Library of Scotland
National Library of Scotland
National Library of Scotland
National Library of Scotland
National Library of Scotland
National Library of Scotland
National Library of Scotland
National Library of Scotland
National Library of Scotland
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+44 131 623 3700

Hours:
SundayClosed
Monday9:30am - 8:30pm
Tuesday9:30am - 8:30pm
Wednesday10am - 8:30pm
Thursday9:30am - 8:30pm
Friday9:30am - 8:30pm
Saturday9:30am - 1pm


The National Library of Scotland is the legal deposit library of Scotland and is one of the country's National Collections. Its main public building is in Edinburgh city centre on George IV Bridge, between the Old Town and the university quarter. There is also a more modern building in a residential area on the south side of the town centre, on Causewayside. This was built to accommodate some of the specialist collections, such as maps and science collections, and to provide extra large-scale storage. In 2016 a new public centre opened at Glasgow's Kelvin Hall providing access to the Library's digital and moving image collections.The National Library of Scotland holds 7 million books, 14 million printed items and over 2 million maps. The collection includes copies of the Gutenberg Bible, the letter which Charles Darwin submitted with the manuscript of Origin of Species, the First Folio of Shakespeare and numerous journals and other publications. It has the largest collection of Scottish Gaelic material of any library.
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