News Archive
Our news archive goes back to September 2002. This page has links to stories from January 2004 onwards. The latest stories are on the news page.
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2013
September 2013
- More films available to watch online
- Scottish Minister launches Gaelic translation of Library catalogue
- Tiny books from one of the world's great collections
- First Scottish books on display on Flodden anniversary
August 2013
July 2013
June 2013
May 2013
April 2013
- NLS collections destined for Wikipedia
- Signed George Washington books loaned to presidential library
- 100 websites give insight into British life
March 2013
February 2013
January 2013
2012
November 2012
October 2012
September 2012
August 2012
July 2012
June 2012
- Rare Robert Louis Stevenson collection coming to Scotland
- Dalai Lama sees Tibetan items on NLS visit
- Celebrating Scotland’s love affair with the cinema
- Grimm letter to Scott shows German-Scottish links
May 2012
- Knowledge being lost in 'digital black hole'
- Orkney birds inspire winning award entry
- Applications sought for Chair of NLS Board
- Online-only delivery for NLS magazine
April 2012
- Unpublished Conan Doyle stories — 'not very good'
- Pamphlet poetry shortlist announced
- Moray travel guide goes mobile
February 2012
January 2012
2011
December 2011
November 2011
- Saltire literary awards shortlists announced
- Livingstone's private thoughts about massacre of slaves
October 2011
September 2011
- Poll reveals changed attitudes to banned books
- Book brings Scottish history to light through maps
- Display celebrates the history of Scottish working people
August 2011
July 2011
June 2011
May 2011
- Have your say on the Gaelic Language Plan
- UK Memory of the World status for Murray Archive
- Prestigious residency for poetry pamphlet award winner
April 2011
March 2011
February 2011
2010
December 2010
- Washington Irving in John Murray Archive exhibition
- Historic Scottish Post Office directories now online
- NLS maps on site for researching Scotland's places
- Deadline approaches for views on legal deposit proposals
November 2010
October 2010
- Historic film treasures help celebrate UNESCO day
- Choice highlights from the Scottish collections
- Jings – a complete 'Oor Wullie' collection at NLS!
- Shrinking our carbon footprint
- Cannabis study report from British India re-issued
September 2010
August 2010
- Treasures display highlights the Scottish Reformation
- Rare items to be on show in Inverness
- One-woman show brings the Fringe to NLS
- Alistair Darling to deliver Donald Dewar lecture
July 2010
- UNESCO adds NLS items to cultural heritage register
- Trustees respond to consultation on NLS reform
- Deciphering David Livingstone's diary
- Maps display shows details of Renaissance Scotland
June 2010
- Exhibition documents the story of golf in Scotland
- Rare showing of panto films with live rediscovered music
- Scottish Screen Archive films at international festival
- Schools resource highlights Victorian self-help 'heroes'
- Focus on Scottish Christian missions overseas
May 2010
April 2010
- Poetry pamphlet shortlist announced
- Controversial archaeologist Schliemann joins Murray exhibition
- Unique J M Barrie items in anniversary display
March 2010
- Have your say on National Library of Scotland Bill
- Display celebrates scientist James Ferguson
- Lord Provost's Fair Trade Award for NLS
February 2010
January 2010
2009
December 2009
- Curtain up on Scottish theatre exhibition
- Archive films in Jackie Stewart exhibition
- Awards roll in for NLS magazine
- Annual Review for 2008-2009 goes online
November 2009
- Burns biography takes Saltire main prize
- Saltire literary awards shortlist for 2009
- Dundee to host NLS roadshow
- Scottish treasures mark the end of Homecoming Year
October 2009
- Celebrating Scottish films on UNESCO Audiovisual Day
- View post-war Scotland from the air
- Research project to develop urban web-mapping tools
September 2009
August 2009
June 2009
- Earliest maps of Scotland's inhabited regions go online
- Exhibition tells stories of Scottish emigration
- International recognition for digital storage project
- Dumfries publisher wins poetry pamphlet award
May 2009
- Lighthouse to show films of the River Clyde
- Funding for Bartholomew Archive research project
- Online support for start-up companies
- Shortlist announced for poetry pamphlet competition
April 2009
March 2009
- New resource for digital images
- Victorian town plans top satellite views
- Edinburgh is home to legal deposit libraries agency
February 2009
- Flood causes minimal damage to national collections
- Burns's 'Sheriff-Muir' manuscript to return to Scotland
- Lady Caroline Lamb joins John Murray Archive Exhibition
- Afternoon tea with Alexander McCall Smith
January 2009
2008
December 2008
November 2008
October 2008
September 2008
- Women in Scotland joined fight against black slavery
- Standard of Excellence award for Screen Archive site
- National Library on show in Ayr
- Join the Scots language debate
August 2008
- Ordnance Survey Six-inch Scottish maps online
- Manuscripts temporary transfer affects reader services
- Adam Smith's 'Wealth of Nations' on display
June 2008
- Treasures show the impact of Scottish printing
- Alex Salmond to give Dewar memorial lecture
- Jane Austen joins Murray Archive exhibition
- Old Bute on film
- Expanding our horizons - a three-year strategy
May 2008
April 2008
- Engravings show 17th-century Scotland
- Social networks research gets doctorate award
- Shortlist for poetry pamphlet publishing
- Scotland's oldest book on show on 500th anniversary
- A' Adam's Bairns
- The art of the graphic novel
March 2008
February 2008
- World's largest published book goes on display
- Community event specially for mothers
- New resource for studying 19th-century Britain
- Playwright to focus on Darwin's 'dangerous book'
- A literary exhibition with a difference
- Ayrshire man's second bookbinding win
2007
November 2007
- Peter Pan display at Citizens' Theatre
- Saltire Literary Award winners announced
- Early French books on display
October 2007
- Rankin and Rebus 20 years on
- Instant access to global business resource
- Regional maps of Scotland go online
September 2007
August 2007
July 2007
June 2007
May 2007
April 2007
- Sir Sean endorses Murray Archive campaign
- Film archive merger is in the can
- Web and communication awards for NLS
March 2007
February 2007
January 2007
2006
December 2006
- Maps and engravings in special new editions
- Ayrshire student is a bookbinding winner
- Saltire Society Literary Awards 2006
- Search is on for obscure Scottish recordings
November 2006
- NLS buys artwork for Kidnapped graphic novel
- New reading rooms at George IV Bridge
- Book now for Rankin reading
- Highland touring exhibition is announced
- Images and memories of the Spanish Civil War
- Meet the National Library in Aberdeen
October 2006
- Sorley Maclean display in Edinburgh cinema
- Bridge Readings continue with James Meek
- Disability Equality Scheme - have your say
- Improving facilities in George IV Bridge
- Online resources in trials by users
August 2006
- Sir Sean Connery in private tour of NLS
- A lively time at the book festival
- Resource helps with newspapers research
- National digital project given green light
June 2006
- Exhibition recounts Audubon's adventures in Edinburgh
- 'Sherlock Holmes' manuscript donated by Conan Doyle estate
- Festival event to look at power and politics
- Modern football - invented in Scotland!
- Prepare to celebrate 500 years of printing
- More on offer with a reader's ticket
May 2006
- Propaganda — a weapon of the Second World War
- Research funding for military maps project
- Poetry pamphlet quaich goes to North Uist
- Exquisite Phoebe Anna Traquair manuscript online
March 2006
February 2006
- John Murray Archive saved for the nation
- Peter Pan on show for World Book Day
- Callum Macdonald Memorial Award application form
January 2006
- Burns celebrations mark partnership in Aberdeen
- General welcome for Cultural Commission response
- Belgian entrant wins bookbinding competition
- Celebrating 50 years of George IV Bridge
2005
December 2005
November 2005
- Saltire Society awards announced at NLS
- Sir Sean's staff record on show in shopping exhibition
- New partnership formed with Moray Libraries
- Following in the footsteps of Isabella Bird
October 2005
September 2005
August 2005
July 2005
- 'Spy School' family days among summer events
- First signed copy of 'Half-Blood Prince' donated to NLS
- Exhibition uncovers Scotland's 'secret' war
June 2005
- Competitions open for writers and craft binders
- 'Fascist Disneyland': Letters from Burma
- Visit from Burma's prime minister in exile
- From 'The Bruce' to 'Take the High Road' ...
May 2005
- Callum Macdonald Award winner announced
- Medieval theme for family fun
- Why is Scotland supernatural?
- Making Friends with The Questions
April 2005
February 2005
January 2005
2004
December 2004
- 10-year-old designer wins card competition
- Annual Review now online
- Saltire book awards announced
- Discover Burns in Scotland
- Remote access to essential modern map information
November 2004
- Discover the private lives of books
- Exhibition celebrates Scotland's first Atlas
- Funding for cataloguing of street literature collection
October 2004
September 2004
August 2004
July 2004
- Lottery bid decision on archive funding is deferred
- Muriel Spark - dedicated writer and hoarder
- Edinburgh International Book Festival
June 2004
May 2004
- News tabloid-style across 300 years
- Taking an in-depth look at Scottish lochs
- Consultation shows support for key aims
- Schools competition for Christmas design
- Non-members welcome at writing conference
- Polish perspectives in Festival of Scottish Writing
April 2004
- Jeffrey M Smith to discuss GM foods
- Library welcomes cultural review in Scotland
- Highlights from the Murray Archive on display
March 2004
February 2004
- Visit us on World Book Day
- Belgian bookbinding designer wins award
- Increase for women's letters and diaries resource
- Full access to ScienceDirect continues
- New to the Electronic Resources Network
January 2004
- New findings on users' views
- Annual awards are under way
- Descriptions of Scotland newly translated
- Captain Corelli's creator at StAnza launch
- New to the Electronic Resources Network
2003
December 2003
November 2003
- A world of wonders from Denmark
- No seats left for McCall Smith entertainment
- Legal Deposit Libraries Act
October 2003
- Library nets BBC match programmes
- Launch of film archive site
- The Cutting Room author wins RLS Award
September 2003
August 2003
- David Steel on 'lessons learned' from devolution
- Sponsoring at the book festival
- Scotland illustrated: mapping and picturing the nation 1680-1720
July 2003
- Down the street - town plans of 19th-century Scotland
- Membership of the Burns Federation
- Scottish website sheds light on English language
- Exhibition events series starts
June 2003
- Playbills take centre stage
- Remote access to ScienceDirect service
- French residency for developing writers
May 2003
- Betrothed reunited with Russian Talisman
- Event - National Art Collections Fund
- Event - Tom Pow
- Winter Song wins poetry pamphlet award
- New on the Electronic Resources Network
- How to catch An Elusive Spark
- Muriel Spark exhibition launch
April 2003
March 2003
- The survival of the Union of the Crowns
- Scottish History in Print
- New on the Electronic Resources Network
- Book launch: Heaven-Taught Fergusson
- Seven-year search culminates in new Scott catalogue
- New on the Electronic Resources Network
February 2003
- World Book Day - Library tours
- New to the Electronic Resources Network
- Closing the cultural gap between nations
- Brian Keenan at poetry event
- Bid to preserve electronic publications
January 2003
- In Stevenson's footsteps
- Robert Burns joins the Digital Library
- New to the Electronic Resources Network
- Binding honour for Edinburgh man
- New features in the Electronic Resources Network
- Pont points the way from the Web
- Link with historic location is no more
2002
December 2002
- Bookbinding excellence recognised
- Saltire Awards ceremony at the Library
- Beekeeper's collection is one of the finest
- Can you help us?