Libraries and special collections beyond Scotland

UK and Ireland | Continental Europe | North America | Oceania

UK and Ireland

• Bodleian Library, Oxford
  http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/
  access to library catalogue
  http://library.ox.ac.uk/
• Cambridge University Library, Special Collections
  http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections.htm
  access to library catalogue
  http://newton.lib.cam.ac.uk:7703/
• Chetham's Library, Manchester
  http://www.chethams.org.uk/
• COPAC
  Consortium of Research Libraries Online Public Access Catalogue
  (This provides access to over twenty university library catalogues)
  http://copac.ac.uk/copac/
• Durham University Library, Special Collections
  http://www.dur.ac.uk/library/asc/
  access to library catalogue
  http://library.dur.ac.uk/
• John Rylands Library, University of Manchester, Special Collections
  http://rylibweb.man.ac.uk/spcoll/
• National Library of Ireland
  http://www.nli.ie/
• National Library of Wales
  http://www.llgc.org.uk/
• Trinity College Library, Dublin
  http://www.tcd.ie/Library/

Continental Europe

• European National Libraries (Gabriel)
  (Links to all the main national libraries)
  http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/portal/index.html
• Lyon, Bibliothèque municipale
  http://www.bm-lyon.fr/

North America

• Bancroft Library, University of California
  http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/index.html
• Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
  http://www.library.yale.edu:80/beinecke/
• Getty Library, Special Collections
  http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/special_collections/
  photographs
  http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/photo_study_collection/
• Houghton Library, Harvard
  http://hcl.harvard.edu/houghton/
• Library of Congress, Rare Books and Special Collections
  http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/rarebook/
  access to library catalogue
  http://catalog.loc.gov/
• Pennsylvania University Library, Printed book collections
  http://www.library.upenn.edu/collections/rbm/bks/bks.html
• Québec - Bibliothèque nationale, livres anciens
  http://www.bnquebec.ca/texte/t0037.htm

Oceania

• National Library of Australia, Rare Books
  http://www.nla.gov.au/collect/rare.html
• National Library of New Zealand, Alexander Turnbull Library
  http://www.natlib.govt.nz/en/using/2atl.html
• University of Otago library, Special Collections
  http://www.library.otago.ac.nz/SpecialCollections/index.html