In honour of the University's 550th anniversary, the latest online exhibition from Special Collections celebrates the history of the library from 1451 to the present.

It describes the early catalogues, the first library buildings, and how the Library accumulated nearly 2,000,000 volumes over the past five hundred years.

Last and not least, play 'spot the librarian' from a 1977 staff photograph. For all this and more, see

http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/timeline/index.html

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First published: 9 August 2001