Collections

Flitting Across the Shelves
KEN COCKBURN discusses his book collection - lovingly acquired for its contents, and not for its value at auction. Archive article from the Scottish Book Collector.
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By Leaves We Live
PENNY DUCE, librarian at the Scottish Poetry Library, gives an overview of the Library's holdings, including some rarities.
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Unfinished Business
ELAINE GREIG is curator of the Robert Louis Stevenson Collection at the Edinburgh Writers' Museum and here presents an account of his life and legacy.
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Books Do Furnish A Life
Scottish Trade Unionist Helen Lister had many interests, books being only one of them. Next to gardening, she loved to read. Here she is remembered by her son MICHAEL LISTER.
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Visionary Position
Martyn Wade has a challenging vision for the institution he heads. How far does it depart from the National Library of Scotland's traditional role, asks JENNIE RENTON.
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William Hunter, Zodiac Man
DAVID WESTON looks through the Hunter Collection, amassed by the eighteenth-century book collecter William Hunter, and preserved today by the Glasgow University Library.
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