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Opening hours and admission
| Admission is free to all: every member of the University, visiting researchers and members of the public are welcome to use the collections. New visitors are recommended to download a visitor packwhich gives advice on where we are and what you need to bring. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Appointments are always advisable but essential for the ground–level searchroom. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Occasionally opening hours can change at short notice: any such changes to advertised hours will be posted here and on our home page. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Please note that the public searchroom will be closed on Monday 15th December for staff training purposes. Our apologies for this inconvenience. Normal service will resume on Tuesday 16th December at 09.30. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Our searchrooms will be closed on all University holidays. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Searchrooms | ||||||||||||||||||||
| We operate two searchrooms. Our main searchroom is on the 2nd floor of our building at 13 Thurso Street, up 4 flights of stairs (43 steps). There is level access throughout the 2nd floor, and 2 toilets just off the searchroom. We also operate a ground-level searchroom in our Dumbarton Road building, with 2 toilets and a disabled toilet facility close to the searchroom. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Further information about accessing our buildings is available on our accessibility section. | ||||||||||||||||||||
While our searchroom service is provided free of charge, the University is grateful for donations to help maintain and preserve the collections. Donations can be made in cash in the searchroom or you can use this donation form (2 pages, 45kb | ||||||||||||||||||||
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) if you wish to donate by credit card or cheque.