Libraries

The Scottish Poetry Library is the place for poetry in Scotland, for the regular reader, the serious student or the casual browser. Since its foundation in 1984 it has amassed a remarkable collection of...

The Signet Library in the heart of Edinburgh's old town is synonymous with prestige and Georgian elegance. Steeped in history, the building, with its lower and upper libraries, was completed in 1822 in...

The Agency for the Legal Deposit Libraries (ALDL) requests and receives copies of publications for distribution to five major libraries. It is maintained by five legal deposit libraries and ensures that...

The Leeds Library is a wonderful mix of the old and the new situated at the very heart of a busy shopping centre. It was established in 1768 as a proprietary subscription library and is now the oldest...

Welcome to the Science & Society Picture Library. SSPL represents over a million images from the Science Museum, the National Media Museum and the National Railway Museum. With over fifty, 000 images digitised,...

Letterbox Library is a non-profit driven workers co-operative. It was began twenty four years ago by two single mothers operating from home, who wished to supply multicultural and non-sexist books to kids...

The Co-operative Movement started in Britain in the early nineteenth century, during the Industrial Revolution. Industrialisation brought the rapid growth of towns and fewer people producing their own...

We hope you have enjoyed reading about our services elsewhere on this website (if you want to know what we provide click here) These pages tell you more about the organisation and the people behind the...

LibraryThing is an online service to assist people catalog their books easily. You can access your catalog from anywhere - even on your mobile phone. Because everyone catalogs together, LibraryThing connects...

The Signet Library in the heart of Edinburgh's old town is synonymous with prestige and Georgian elegance. Steeped in history, the building, with its lower and upper libraries, was completed in 1822 in...