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If you can't see what you're looking for, please try our <a href="/find">site search</a> or the <a href="/find/site-map">site map</a>.</p> <p><a href="#a">A</a> <a href="#b">B</a> <a href="#c">C</a> <a href="#d">D</a> <a href="#e">E</a> <a href="#f">F</a> <a href="#g">G</a> <a href="#h">H</a> <a href="#i">I</a> <a href="#j">J</a> <a href="#k">K</a> <a href="#l">L</a> <a href="#m">M</a> <a href="#n">N</a> <a href="#o">O</a> <a href="#p">P</a> Q <a href="#r">R</a> <a href="#s">S</a> <a href="#t">T</a> <a href="#u">U</a> V <a href="#w">W</a> X <a href="#y">Y</a> Z</p> </div> </section> </div> <div class=" main-content-item" id="mcItem-richTextEditor-2"> <section class="nested-content-item richtexteditor " id="a" > <h2 class="sectionHeader mb-4">A</h2> <div class="content"> <ul> <li><a href="/family-history/" title="Family history">ancestors</a> — genealogy</li> <li><a href="/visit/visit-george-iv-bridge/#accessgivb" title="Visit George IV Bridge" data-anchor="#accessgivb">access to George IV Bridge Building</a> — for people with disabilities</li> <li><a href="/visit/visit-maps-at-causewayside/#accesscs" title="Visit Maps at Causewayside" data-anchor="#accesscs">access to Causewayside Building</a> — for people with disabilities</li> <li><a href="/visit/visit-kelvin-hall/#accesskh" title="Visit Kelvin Hall" data-anchor="#accesskh">access to Kelvin Hall</a> — for people with disabilities</li> <li><a href="/visit/reading-rooms/general-reading-room/how-to-order/" title="How to order">advance ordering</a></li> <li><a href="/about-us/what-we-do/legal-deposit/" title="Legal deposit">Agency for the Legal Deposit Libraries</a></li> <li><a href="/about-us/policies-and-reports/annual-review-and-financial-statements/" title="Annual review and financial statements">annual review and annual report</a></li> <li><a href="/collections/mountaineering-and-polar/antarctica-to-1900/" title="Antarctica to 1900">Antarctica: Discovery and exploration to 1900</a></li> <li><a href="/collections/mountaineering-and-polar/antarctica-1901-1918/" title="Antarctica 1901-1918">Antarctica: Discovery and exploration 1901-1918</a></li> <li><a href="/join/" title="Join">apply for a library card</a></li> <li><a href="http://digital.nls.uk/traquair/">Arts and Crafts — Phoebe Anna Traquair manuscript</a></li> <li><a href="/exhibitions/audubon/" title="Audubon">Audubon exhibition</a> (summer 2006)</li> </ul> </div> <div class="d-flex justify-content-end mb-3 top-link-wrapper"> <div class="top"><strong><a href="#pageTop">top<i class="icon-gecko-chevron-up"></i></a></strong></div> </div> </section> </div> <div class=" main-content-item" id="mcItem-richTextEditor-3"> <section class="nested-content-item richtexteditor " id="b" > <h2 class="sectionHeader mb-4">B</h2> <div class="content"> <ul> <li><a href="http://digital.nls.uk/bartholomew/">Bartholomew Archive</a></li> <li><a href="http://digital.nls.uk/moir/index.html">beekeeping</a> — rare book collection</li> <li><a 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and conservation</li> <li>conservation — see <a href="/collections/collections-care/" title="Collections care">collections care</a></li> <li><a href="/visit/reading-rooms/general-reading-room/" title="General Reading Room">consulting the collections — General Reading Room</a></li> <li><a href="/visit/reading-rooms/special-collections-reading-room/" title="Special Collections Reading Room">consulting the collections — Special Collections Reading Room</a></li> <li><a href="/visit/reading-rooms/maps-reading-room/" title="Maps reading room">consulting the collections — Maps Reading Room</a></li> <li><a href="/copyright/" title="Copyright">copying — permission requirements</a></li> <li><a href="/find/copying-services/" title="Copying services">copying services</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="d-flex justify-content-end mb-3 top-link-wrapper"> <div class="top"><strong><a href="#pageTop">top<i class="icon-gecko-chevron-up"></i></a></strong></div> </div> </section> </div> <div class=" main-content-item" id="mcItem-richTextEditor-5"> <section class="nested-content-item richtexteditor " id="d" > <h2 class="sectionHeader mb-4">D</h2> <div class="content"> <ul> <li>digitised items from Library collections — see <a href="http://digital.nls.uk/">Digital Gallery</a></li> <li><a href="/guides/librarians/document-supply/" title="Document supply">document supply</a></li> <li>donors guide — <a href="/guides/donors/" title="Donors">donating items to the collections</a></li> <li>donors — <a href="/support-nls/" title="Support NLS">make a financial donation to the National Library</a></li> </ul> <p> </p> </div> <div class="d-flex justify-content-end mb-3 top-link-wrapper"> <div class="top"><strong><a href="#pageTop">top<i class="icon-gecko-chevron-up"></i></a></strong></div> </div> </section> </div> <div class=" main-content-item" id="mcItem-richTextEditor-6"> <section class="nested-content-item richtexteditor " id="e" > <h2 class="sectionHeader mb-4">E</h2> <div class="content"> <ul> <li><a href="/collections/rare-books/collections/#rare1501" title="Collections" data-anchor="#rare1501">early books</a> (before 1501)</li> <li><a href="http://digital.nls.uk/early-gaelic-book-collections/">early Gaelic book collections</a></li> <li><a href="http://digital.nls.uk/emigration/">emigration — stories of Scottish emigration</a> ('Scots abroad' web feature)</li> <li><a href="/catalogues/scots-abroad/" title="Scots Abroad">emigration — databases listing emigrants' correspondence and guides</a></li> <li><a href="http://digital.nls.uk/slezer/">engravings of 17th-century Scotland</a> — 'Slezer's Scotland'</li> <li><a href="https://auth.nls.uk/eresources/">eResources</a></li> <li><a href="/collections/official-publications/civic-literacy/" title="Civic literacy">EU referendum 2016</a></li> <li><a href="/whats-on/" title="Whats On">events</a></li> <li><a href="/join/library-cards/evidence-of-identity/" title="Evidence of identity">evidence of identification</a> (for library card)</li> <li><a href="/whats-on/" title="Whats On">exhibitions</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="d-flex justify-content-end mb-3 top-link-wrapper"> <div class="top"><strong><a href="#pageTop">top<i class="icon-gecko-chevron-up"></i></a></strong></div> </div> </section> </div> <div class=" main-content-item" id="mcItem-richTextEditor-7"> <section class="nested-content-item richtexteditor " id="f" > <h2 class="sectionHeader mb-4">F</h2> <div class="content"> <ul> <li><a href="/family-history/" title="Family history">family history</a></li> <li>films — <a href="/collections/moving-image-archive/" title="Moving Image Archive">Moving Image Archive</a> (formerly Scottish Screen Archive)</li> <li><a href="/collections/manuscripts/collections/food-history/" title="Food history">Food history — manuscripts</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="d-flex justify-content-end mb-3 top-link-wrapper"> <div class="top"><strong><a href="#pageTop">top<i class="icon-gecko-chevron-up"></i></a></strong></div> </div> </section> </div> <div class=" main-content-item" id="mcItem-richTextEditor-8"> <section class="nested-content-item richtexteditor " id="g" > <h2 class="sectionHeader mb-4">G</h2> <div class="content"> <ul> <li><a href="http://digital.nls.uk/early-gaelic-book-collections/">Gaelic books — early collections — read online</a></li> <li><a href="/collections/manuscripts/collections/gaelic-manuscripts/" title="Gaelic manuscripts">Gaelic collections — manuscripts</a></li> <li><a href="/collections/rare-books/collections/gaelic/" title="Gaelic">Gaelic collections — rare books</a></li> <li><a href="/collections/rare-books/collections/gaidhlig/" title="Gaidhlig">leabhraichean tearca Gàidhlig — cruinneachaidhean leabhraichean tearca</a></li> <li><a href="/family-history/" title="Family history">genealogy</a></li> <li><a href="/join/library-cards/" title="Library cards">general library card</a></li> <li><a href="http://digital.nls.uk/50years/">George IV Bridge — celebrating 50 years</a> — selected items from 50 years of collecting</li> <li><a href="/collections/manuscripts/collections/sport-recreation-archives/" title="Sport/recreation archives">golf manuscript collections</a></li> <li><a href="/collections/official-publications/" title="Official Publications">government publications</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="d-flex justify-content-end mb-3 top-link-wrapper"> <div class="top"><strong><a href="#pageTop">top<i class="icon-gecko-chevron-up"></i></a></strong></div> </div> </section> </div> <div class=" main-content-item" id="mcItem-richTextEditor-9"> <section class="nested-content-item richtexteditor " id="h" > <h2 class="sectionHeader mb-4">H</h2> <div class="content"> <ul> <li><a href="http://digital.nls.uk/experiencesofwar/">Haig, General Douglas</a></li> <li><a href="/guides/how-to-join/" title="How to join">how to join the Library</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="d-flex justify-content-end mb-3 top-link-wrapper"> <div class="top"><strong><a 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literature</a></li> </ul> </li> <li>collections <ul> <li><a href="/collections/maps/" title="Maps">map collections</a></li> <li><a href="/collections/music/" title="Music">music material</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://maps.nls.uk/">maps online</a></li> <li><a href="https://digital.nls.uk/mqs/">Mary Queen of Scots</a> — her last letter before execution</li> <li><a href="http://digital.nls.uk/indiapapers/">Medical History of British India</a> — India Papers</li> <li><a href="/collections/moving-image-archive/" title="Moving Image Archive">Moving Image Archive</a></li> <li><a href="/collections/mountaineering-and-polar/" title="Mountaineering and polar">mountaineering and polar collections</a></li> <li><a href="https://digital.nls.uk/muriel-spark/">Muriel Spark</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="d-flex justify-content-end mb-3 top-link-wrapper"> <div class="top"><strong><a href="#pageTop">top<i class="icon-gecko-chevron-up"></i></a></strong></div> </div> </section> </div> <div 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