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The Advocates Library, Edinburgh

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2022

Sara Berry
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Abstract

In this article Sara Berry provides an account of some of the history relating to the Advocates Library in Edinburgh. She explains how the Advocates Library played a key role in the Scottish Enlightenment and acted as Scotland's national library up to the foundation of the National Library of Scotland in 1925. The article also looks at the library's integral role in supporting Faculty Members and the Scottish justice system through history to modern day. The last section looks at some of the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on Members, library staff and working practices.

Keywords

law librarieslegal professionAdvocates LibraryScotland
Type
Five Scottish Law Libraries
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 21 , Issue 3-4 , December 2021 , pp. 160 - 166
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by British and Irish Association of Law Librarians

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John St Clair, Advocate, and Roger Craik, Q.C. Edinburgh. The Advocates’ Library: 300 Years of a National Institution 1689–1989 (HMSO, 1989).Google Scholar
Brown, Iain Gordon. Building for Books: the Architectural Evolution of the Advocates’ Library 1689–1925 (Aberdeen University Press in association with the National Library of Scotland, 1989).10.1007/978-1-4612-1019-1CrossRefGoogle Scholar
The Hon. Lord Cullen. Parliament House: A Short History and Guide (Scottish Courts Administration, 1992).Google Scholar