National Library of Scotland

National Library of Scotland
George IV Bridge
Edinburgh
Lothian
EH1 1EW
Scotland

Website

www.nls.uk

E-mail

Telephone

General Enquiries

+44 (0)131-226 4531

Fax

General Enquiries

+44 (0)131-622 4803

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Scotland's largest library and the world centre for the study of Scotland and the Scots. Thanks to our UK legal deposit status, we are also a vast reference library.

Venue Type:

Library, Archive

Opening hours

General Reading Room:

Monday - 09.30-20.30
Tuesday - 09.30-20.30
Wednesday - 10.00-20.30
Thursday - 09.30-20.30
Friday - 09.30-20.30
Saturday - 09.30-13.00

Closed: Sunday

Admission charges

Free admission to Reading Rooms, exhibitions and workshops. Some events are chargeable.

Links

7 million printed books, 120,000 volumes of manuscripts, 1.6 million maps, and over 20,000 newspaper and magazine titles.

Collection details

Archaeology, Archives, Industry, Law and Order, Literature, Maritime, Medicine, Music, Natural Sciences, Religion, Science and Technology, Social History, World Cultures

Key artists and exhibits

Robert Burns
Mary Queen of Scots
Edinburgh Calotype Club
Douglas Haig
Winston Churchill
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Murthly Hours
The Auchinleck Manuscript
Modern Scottish Writers
Edinburgh’s Theatre Royal
Map Library - military and civilian

Events details are listed below. You may need to scroll down or click on headers to see them all. For events that don't have a specific date see the 'Resources' tab above.

Jewel in the Glen: Gleneagles, Golf and the Ryder Cup

25 June 2013

The Ryder Cup is coming home. The 40th staging of golf ’s showpiece event is returning to Gleneagles – where it all began. Ed Hodge traces the history of the Ryder Cup back to the first encounter at Gleneagles in 1921 and examines the impact that the 2014 tournament will have on the local community and the wider Scottish society, culture and economy.

When

6-7pm

Admission

Call 0131 623 3734 or book online www.nls.uk/events/booking

New Poems in Scots pass The Smeddum Test

26 June 2013

The continuing vitality of the Scots language is demonstrated in a lively new anthology of 21st-century poems, The Smeddum Test. Contemporary issues and evergreen themes are tackled with energy and wit by the 60 poets represented. Joint editors Lesley Duncan and Alan Riach will introduce the book and poets Sheila Templeton and Rab Wilson will read from their own and others’ work.