New Library Search catalogue coming to National Library of Scotland

The National Library of Scotland (www.nls.uk) has a new catalogue coming its way:

Library Search

Library Search is a new National Library of Scotland service which will replace the main catalogue and provide wider access to our collections.

It will bring together, in a single search, details of our printed, manuscript and archive, moving image and digital collections, as well as high quality e-resources and databases from a range of publishers.

Library Search is scheduled to be in place by November 2018.


Included in Library Search are:

• More than five million records from our print collections, including books, maps, journals, newspapers and music
• Almost five million electronic legal deposit items
• Records of 35,000 items from our archives and manuscript collections
• Hundreds of thousands of digitised resources from our collections, including digitised books, maps, photographs, posters, music, and films from the Moving Image Archive
• Millions of articles from full-text newspapers, journals and reports
• Thousands of electronic books, including many reference works
• Millions of records and abstracts from online services, digital archives and databases.

The new service brings several benefits. You can:

• Refine searches by format, subject, year, etc
• Access a wide range of electronic resources
• Request materials for consultation in our reading rooms
• Receive notification when items you've requested are ready for you
• Review your borrowing history.

Further information is available at https://www.nls.uk/catalogues/library-search

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Chris

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