The Special Collections Reading Room will be closed 10am to 1pm on Wednesday 16 September. It will then reopen until our usual closing time of 7pm.

National Library of Scotland

What's on

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

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Glasgow cinema city

Fully booked
Talk, Screening, Doors Open Days
16 September 2026, 6:00PM to 7:00PM
Painting depicting a street view outside a cinema.

Gaelic bookbug

Workshop
17 September 2026, 10:30AM to 11:00AM
The bookbug on a yellow background.

Doors Open Day: Behind the scenes tours

Fully booked
Tour, Doors Open Days
17 September 2026, 10:30AM to 1:00PM
A curator reaching for a tape on a rolling archive shelf.

Welcome to the Library tours

Tour
17 September 2026, 3:00PM to 3:30PM
The outside of the Library building on George IV Bridge, also showing the people on the footpath outside and traffic on the road.

Doors open Day: Creative cinema club crafternoon

Workshop, Doors Open Days
19 September 2026, 10:30AM to 3:30PM
A decorated glass jar surround by tissue paper, scissors and popcorn.

Welcome to the Library tours

Tour
19 September 2026, 11:30AM to 12:00PM
The outside of the Library building on George IV Bridge, also showing the people on the footpath outside and traffic on the road.

River, stream, water: How Gaelic flows through the landscape

Fully booked
Talk
19 September 2026, 2:00PM to 3:00PM
View of a loch and glen in Glencoe.

Open Book

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

Bookbug

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

Welcome to the Library tours

Tour
24 September 2026, 3:00PM to 3:30PM
The outside of the Library building on George IV Bridge, also showing the people on the footpath outside and traffic on the road.

A celebration of the dreich

Fully booked
Talk
24 September 2026, 5:30PM to 6:30PM
Book cover with the title "Scotland the Dreich, a celebration of all that is dreich". Showing a caravan on the side of the road in a drizzly landscape.

Welcome to the Library tours

Tour
26 September 2026, 11:30AM to 12:00PM
The outside of the Library building on George IV Bridge, also showing the people on the footpath outside and traffic on the road.