| LC control no. | n 80044899 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Corporate name heading | National Library of Scotland |
| Variant(s) | Scotland. National Library, Edinburgh NLS Leabharlann Nà€iseanta na h-Alba |
| See also | Faculty of Advocates (Scotland). Library |
| Beginning date | 1925 |
| Located | Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Address | George IV Bridge Edinburgh Scotland EH1 1EW |
| Found in | Brown, I.G. Building for books, 1989: p. 1-2 (in 1925, many of the books and manuscripts of the historic Advocates' Library were given to the Scottish government and formed the basis for a new National Library of Scotland; all except the legal collections became part of the national library, and the buildings of the old Advocates' Library were split between the two institutions) Its Quarto, Winter 2005: t.p. (National Library of Scotland; NLS) National LIbrary of Scotland WWW site, 17 January, 2013: home page (NLS; National Library of Scotland; Leabharlann Nà€iseanta na h-Alba) NLS history (Before the National Library of Scotland there was the Library of the Faculty of Advocates; Founded in the early 1680s, the Advocates Library in Edinburgh was formally opened in 1689. Under the 1710 Copyright Act it was given the legal right to claim a copy of every book published in Britain; The National Library of Scotland was formally constituted by an Act of Parliament in 1925; Since 1999, the Library has been answerable to the Scottish Parliament and funded by the Scottish Government) contact us (George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EW) |
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