NLS Visitor Services

Visitor Services Team at the National Library, George IV Bridge. This account has now merged with @natlibscot

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We offer behind-the-scenes group tours to @natlibscot. Our tours include a visit to the General Reading Room and book stacks, plus interesting information about the history of the Library. To enquire, contact [email protected] at least 6 weeks in advance. See you soon!

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@WhittakerLib Brilliant!

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Johannes #Gutenberg, inventor of #printing with moveable type in Europe, died #otd 1468. The Library's copy of the Gutenberg Bible is one of 20 complete copies still in existence. https://t.co/ABtyHZLx3h

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Today's view of the Library
#MoodyMonday

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The Library looking like an inviting place this morning for your #TuesdayThoughts

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---> https://t.co/8FL4CQUdJz

The sessions will cover all types of creative writing – prose, poetry, and memoir!

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Some #MondayMotivation for aspiring writers!
There are still spaces available in our 'Writing the Library' workshops, including this Friday. Poet Marjorie Lofti Gill will lead you through the creative writing session, inspired by our collections and exhibitions. Link below

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His popular ballad ‘Watty and Meg’ (published anonymously) was mistaken for the work of #RobertBurns. Happy #BurnsNight !

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It may be the #BigGardenBirdWatch today, but how about the Big Library Birdwatch?
Can any American ornithologists identify these birds?

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Our postcards are from ‘Illustrations of the American Ornithology’, published here in Edinburgh in 1835, featuring the work of Scottish ornithologist Alexander Wilson.
As well as a founder of American ornithology, Wilson was also a poet.

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@CRC_LRC Strawberry Fair was quite close!

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@CRC_LRC 1. Thought Good Morning Britain at first, but it's definitely "Greenwich Mean Time" !
2. Orange!
3. UV
4. Yellowstone
5. Veruca
6. Don't know...
7. Red ?
8. Don't know...

Is the connection "colours" ? "Rainbow"?

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@CRC_LRC @LibrariesLC By Herefordshire, we mean Hertfordshire!

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@CRC_LRC @LibrariesLC Oh dear, without cheating:

1.Strawberry Fair ??
2. Norfolk, Suffolk, Oxfordshire, Nottinghamshire, Herefordshire, Lincolnshire, Berkshire?
3. Boat house
4. Cambridge?
5. Cambridge FC
6 .BIKE
7. No idea.
8. No idea. Fen Drayton.

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@CRC_LRC

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Saturdays are for loaf (cake) ing around the Library.
#saturdaymorning #saturdayafternoon

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This beautiful map of the Lothians was the 1st #map to be published based on the survey work of the Scotland's earliest known cartographer, Timothy Pont. #HeritageTreasures
https://t.co/AtDaIYQgxI #maps

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See this and other #HeritageTreasures in our exhibitions today! Open until 5p.m.

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Happy #HeritageTreasures Day! This photo is by David Bryce, titled ‘Loch Katrine (Ellen's Isle)’ c.1863 from the MacKinnon Collection, held jointly with @NatGalleriesSco. Visit our display today > https://t.co/UTBaRlQc7x
Supported by @HeritageFundUK

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@CRC_LRC Ok second attempt!
Wiley. Endgame. Archie. Ruiz. Elsa. Climate Change. Rugby. Cats.

Aha! "We Are CRC"

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@CRC_LRC **Cats

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@CRC_LRC 2. Endgame 3. Archie 6. Global warming 7. Rugby 8. Cat Winning so far?