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Stephen Mitchell (manufacturer and philanthropist) (1789–1874), Scottish tobacco manufacturer and philanthropist, and founder of the Mitchell Library. Francis Thornton Barrett (1838–1919), first librarian of The Mitchell Library between 1877 & 1899, and city librarian for Glasgow between 1901 & 1914.
It is a ‘community archive’, [2] largely run by volunteers. It was constituted in August 2011 and today forms part of Glasgow City Archives’ collection [3] whilst maintaining its organisational independence. Its catalogue will join the National Records of Scotland in 2013. [4]
This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf , gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
Dundee City Council. Central Library; ... Port Glasgow Library; ... Orkney Library and Archive; Stromness Library [23] Perth & Kinross
This is a list of archives in the United Kingdom. As of 2009 [update] there were 122 national, 654 local, 328 university, 1,224 special and 61 business archives. [ 1 ]
The newest addition to the Library is the 2016 Kelvin Hall public centre in Glasgow, purposed to provide access to the library's digital and moving collections, namely the Moving Image Archive. [7] Like at the library's main building, exhibits are held here too, though on a smaller scale.
The Library incorporates the Archives of the University of Glasgow [15] accumulated since 1451, and the Scottish Business Archive [16] of internationally important collections of business records covering the whole of Scotland and its global trades from the 18th century to the present.
Talks and events are arranged each year based on the holdings of the Archives and of the Library aided by support from the Friends of Glasgow University Library. [1] Admission to the Archives is free and everyone, members of the university, visiting researchers and members of the public can use the collections. 13 Thurso Street searchroom