National Library of Scotland

Selections from the papers of Ian Rankin, Scotland’s best known contemporary crime writer, are now on view at the National Library of Scotland (NLS) in Edin
The National Library of Scotland is appealing for urgent help to save its vast historic Scottish newspaper collection from degradation.
Projects around Britain are making available to the public rare manuscripts covering everything from medieval medicine to the earliest example of Scots Gaelic as well as Jewish diaspora material.
Eleven years ago, in March 2011, a librarian came across an enchanting paper sculpture of a tree growing out of an old book—nicknamed ‘poetree’—placed just outside the Scottish Public Library in Ed