Central Library: Fine Art Department

Category

Library Item

Item no

35186

Title

Central Library: Fine Art Department

Artist / maker

Hill, Robin A.

Date

1963

Size

11.0 x 15.3 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

The Fine Art Library opened in 1936, it is now called Art and Design Library.

Edinburgh libraries used the Browne issue sytem for lending books. The readers pocket- style tickets were matched with a card from the book they had borrowed and the tickets were filed in trays at the counter as seen in this image.

Edinburgh Central Public Library is, strictly speaking, located on the Cowgate. It rises up four floors from this level to its main entrance on George IV Bridge. It was designed by George Washington Browne, and built in 1887-90. It was built with money donated by the philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. Central Library acts as the community library for the centre of the city. It also has several subject dedicated sections: the Fine Art Library; Music Library; Edinburgh and Scottish Collection, and the Reference Library.

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Architecture > Architectural features > Doors and doorways

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Sport and leisure > Culture > Libraries

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