Faculty of Advocates (Scotland). Library

found: Its Catalogue of the printed books in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates, 1863-79.

found: LC data base, 1/28/85(hdg.: Edinburgh. Faculty of Advocates. Library; usage: Library of the Faculty of Advocates, Edinburgh)

found: Brown, I.G. Building for books, 1989t.p. (Advocates' Library) p. 1, etc. (Advocatorum Bibliotheca; f. 1680 but not formally opened until 1689; in 1925, most of the Faculty's books and manuscripts were given to the nation, forming the basis of a new National Library of Scotland; the Faculty retained the legal collections and the Library's name, becoming, however, a new institution serving only the Scottish Bar; the buildings of the old Advocates' Library were split between the two institutions)

found: Aslib dir. of info. sources in the U.K., 1984(Advocates Library, Faculty of Advocates, Edinburgh)

found: Its Web site, June 19, 2002(Faculty of Advocates, Advocates Library; formally inaugurated in 1689; in 1925 the National Library of Scotland was established when the Faculty gifted to the nation its whole non-law collections)