National Library of Scotland

Official Publications Unit

George IV Bridge

Edinburgh

EH1 1EW

Jan Usher

Head of Official Publications

j.usher@nls.uk 

With around 2 million items*, the National Library of Scotland holds one of the largest collections of official publications in the United Kingdom and the largest collection of official publications in Scotland.

The legal deposit privilege ensures comprehensive coverage of publications from the Westminster and Scottish Parliaments, together with the publications of their respective government departments and agencies. In addition the Library has extensive collections of overseas publications, including material from the United States and Commonwealth countries. The Library acts as a depository library for the United Nations and for the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Apart from the fact that we have almost every official publication published in the UK*, we also have a large collection of South Asian material "The India Papers collection"; this is unique in Scotland, with only one other similar to it in the UK (in the British Library). This collection includes publications of the central (Imperial) government and of many Indian states, most but not all of which came under British rule. (Items published by the India Office can be found among the British official publications.) The great majority of the collection dates from between the post-Mutiny re-organisation of the Indian government and Indian independence in 1947.

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