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Central Junior Library
Unknown, 1951, Photograph
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Central Junior Library
Central Junior Library
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35190
Title
Central Junior Library
Artist / maker
Unknown
Date
1951
Size
11.1 x 14.5 cm
Type
Photograph
Location
Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
This is a view of Central Children's Library in the building next door to Central Library. In later years of use, the back room was partitioned off and used as staff office space. (Note the spiral staircase in the far back corner leading to the floor above.) Central Children's Library and the Music Department moved back into the main building of Central Library in 2014.
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.
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