The Special Collections Reading Room will be closed for a Members Connect event between 5pm and 7pm on Thursday 15 October.Learn more about the event

National Library of Scotland

What's on

Find out about our events and exhibitions in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and online.

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Open Book

Reading
12 October 2026, 10:15AM to 11:15AM
A group of people sitting around a table reading books.

Scots language bookbug

Workshop
12 October 2026, 10:30AM to 11:00AM
The bookbug on a purple background.

Cloudy crafts and rainbow rhymes

Workshop
13 October 2026, 11:00AM to 12:00PM
An adult and a child siting at a table drawing pictures.

Creative writing: Rain

Workshop
13 October 2026, 3:00PM to 5:00PM
A stack of books in front of a window with rain on it.

Cloudy crafts and rainbow rhymes

Workshop
14 October 2026, 11:00AM to 4:30PM
An adult and a child siting at a table drawing pictures.

'Everybody to Kenmure Street'

Fully booked
Screening
14 October 2026, 5:45PM to 7:40PM
A birds-eye view of the crowd and police gathering in Kenmure Street in Glasgow.

Bookbug

Workshop
15 October 2026, 10:30AM to 11:00AM
The bookbug on a green background

Cloudy crafts and rainbow rhymes

Workshop
15 October 2026, 11:00AM to 4:30PM
An adult and a child siting at a table drawing pictures.

Welcome to the Library tours

Tour
15 October 2026, 3:30PM to 4:15PM
The outside of the Library building on George IV Bridge, also showing the people on the footpath outside and traffic on the road.

A foray into fungi in language and song

Talk
15 October 2026, 5:30PM to 6:30PM
A woman lying on a woodland floor looking at a red and white mushroom.

Members connect

Display
15 October 2026, 5:30PM to 7:00PM
Four archival collections. One of handwritten pages with a photo of David Livingtson, one on Suffrage, one of Esther Inglis's manuscript, and one of a Game Register by Frank H. Young.

Social Justice and Self-Portraiture: Edinburgh Schools Photography Competition 2026

Display
16 to 17 October 2026
A drawing of Frederick Scott Archer's wet-collodion camera from 1853.