Central Junior Library

Category

Library Item

Item no

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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