A
- academic research
- ancestors — genealogy
- access to George IV Bridge Building — for people with disabilities
- access to Causewayside Building — for people with disabilities
- admission enquiries
- advance ordering
- Agency for the Legal Deposit Libraries
- annual review and annual report
- Antarctica: Discovery and exploration to 1900
- Antarctica: Discovery and exploration 1901-1918
- apply for a library card
- Arts and Crafts — Phoebe Anna Traquair manuscript
- Audubon exhibition (summer 2006)
B
- Bartholomew Archive
- beekeeping — rare book collection
- bibliographies database — Scottish Bibliographies online
- Blaeu Atlas
- blogs
- bookbinding competition
- bookbindings (rare, decorative)
- Board of the National Library of Scotland
- borrowing books — inter-library lending
- broadsides
- Burns, Robert
- business resources and services
C
- calotype albums
- collection policies
- catalogues and databases overview
- children's books — rare books
- Churchill, Winston
- civic literacy
- collections care (preservation and conservation
- conservation — see collections care
- consulting the collections — General Reading Room
- consulting the collections — Special Collections Reading Room
- consulting the collections — Maps Reading Room
- copying — permission requirements
- copying services
D
- digitised items from Library collections — see Digital Gallery
- document supply
- donors guide — donating items to the collections
- donors — make a financial donation to the National Library
E
- early books (before 1501)
- early Gaelic book collections
- emigration — stories of Scottish emigration ('Scots abroad' web feature)
- emigration — databases listing emigrants' correspondence and guides
- engravings of 17th-century Scotland — 'Slezer's Scotland'
- eResources
- EU referendum 2016
- events
- evidence of identification (for library card)
- exhibitions
F
- family history
- films — Moving Image Archive (formerly Scottish Screen Archive)
- Food history — manuscripts
G
- Gaelic books — early collections — read online
- Gaelic collections — manuscripts
- Gaelic collections — rare books
- leabhraichean tearca Gàidhlig — cruinneachaidhean leabhraichean tearca
- genealogy
- general library card
- George IV Bridge — celebrating 50 years — selected items from 50 years of collecting
- golf manuscript collections
- government publications
I
- images (copying of)
- India Papers
- inter-library lending
- Inter-Library Services — see Document supply
- international collections
K
- 'Kidnapped' — entire first English edition online
- Kirk Papers — Sir John Kirk
L
- Learning Zone
- legal deposit
- library cards
- Library Search — About Library Search
- local history — maps
- local history — historical club and society documents guide ('Scottish History in Print' web feature)
- location map
M
- catalogues
- manuscripts collections
- collections
- maps online
- Mary Queen of Scots — her last letter before execution
- Medical History of British India — India Papers
- Moving Image Archive
- mountaineering and polar collections
- Muriel Spark
N
- National Library — a brief history
- national moving images collection — see Moving Image Archive
- news
- collections
- National Library service charter
O
P
- collections
- permission to re-use material
- Phoebe Anna Traquair
- copying services - photocopying / photographs
- photographs of John Thomson
- photography — calotype album online — 'Pencils of Light' web feature
- poetry pamphlet publishing competition (Callum Macdonald memorial Award)
- policy documents
- Pont's maps
- preservation — see collections care
- press releases (National Library)
- printing in Scotland — 'The spread of Scottish printing' web feature
- privacy
- procurement — contracts and tenders
- propaganda — Second World War
- publishers guide — about legal deposit and other services for publishers
R
- collections
- Rare Books in Scotland forum
- reader's ticket — see library cards
- reading rooms
- register online — for reading room access and selected electronic material
- reprographic services
S
- schools — see Learning Zone
- school students' card
- collections
- catalogues
- scientists — 'Scottish Science Hall of Fame' web feature
- Scots language — 'Oor Wullie' resource for schools
- Scott, Walter — Millgate union catalogue of Scott correspondence
- Scott, Walter — treasures display
- Scottish Enlightenment
- Scottish printing — 'The spread of Scottish printing' web feature
- Scottish Theatre Programmes database
- Scottish writers (photographs) — 'The Write Stuff' web feature
- service charter
- Second World War propaganda
- Slezer, John — 'Slezer's Scotland' web feature
- Special and Named Printed Collections — database with details of special collections
- Stevenson, Robert Louis
- suffragettes — 'A guid cause' learning feature
T
- theatre — 12 key Scottish plays 1970-2010
- collections
- topics list — general list of subjects covered on the collections pages
- theatre collections
- trade union papers — manuscripts collection
- theatre playbills — Theatre Royal, Edinburgh
- Thomson, John — photographs
- town plans of 19th century Scotland
- trustees — see Board of the National Library of Scotland