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View of King's Buildings from the Braid Hills. The King's Buildings (colloquially known as just King's or KB) is a campus of the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.Located in the suburb of Blackford, the site contains most of the schools within the College of Science and Engineering, excepting only the School of Informatics and part of the School of Geosciences, which are located at the ...
The collections in Edinburgh University Old College were moved in 1967 to the purpose-built eight-storey Main Library building at George Square, one of the largest academic libraries in the world. [1] Today, Edinburgh's university-wide library system holds over 3.8m books, e-books and e-journals in total. [2]
The University of Edinburgh began drawing up plans to redevelop the square in the 1950s. Architects Basil Spence and Robert Matthew were closely involved in the plans. Opposition to demolition of the Georgian Square was led by the Cockburn Association , and the Georgian Group of Edinburgh, which was established by Colin McWilliam and others to ...
Pre-dating the university by three years, Edinburgh University Library was founded in 1580 through the donation of a large collection by Clement Litill, and today is the largest academic library collection in Scotland. [205] [206] The Brutalist style eight-storey Main Library building in George Square was designed by Sir Basil Spence.
New College Library. The New College library was founded in 1843 as the Library of the Free Church College. It is the largest single-site theological library in the United Kingdom, holding a large collection of manuscripts, including the papers of Thomas Chalmers, John Baillie, J. H. Oldham and James S. Stewart. [13] [14]
The top floor was opened out to house library and computer work stations. This new Library was opened in August 1996. [16] In 1999/2000, a further refurbishment was undertaken to allow for the transfer of the stock from the Cramond campus library before its closure.
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EDINA has its origin in Edinburgh University Data Library, which was set up in 1983/4. Researchers at the University of Edinburgh working with data from government surveys were looking to the university to provide university-wide provision for files that were too large to be stored on individual computing accounts.