Glasgow University Library

University of Glasgow Library
The Main Library Building, prior to 2012, with the McMillan Reading Room in the foreground.
55°52′24″N 4°17′20″W / 55.8733°N 4.2890°W / 55.8733; -4.2890
Location	Glasgow, Scotland
Type	Academic library
Established	1475
Branches	8[1]
Collection
Items collected	Books, manuscripts, journals and electronic resources
Size	2.5 million physical volumes across all campus libraries, (4.3 million including e-books).
Legal deposit	Formerly (1709–1836)
Access and use
Access requirements	Staff, students and alumni of the University of Glasgow
Other information
Director	Susan Ashworth (librarian)
Employees	334
Affiliation	University of Glasgow
Website	www.lib.gla.ac.uk

Glasgow University Library in Scotland is one of the oldest and largest university libraries in Europe. At the turn of the 21st century, the main library building itself held 1,347,000 catalogued print books, and 53,300 journals.^[2][vague] In total, the university library system including branch libraries now holds approximately 2.5 million books and journals, along with access to 1,853,000 e-books, and over 50,000 e-journals.^{[3] [4]} The University also holds extensive archival material in a separate building. This includes the Scottish Business Archive, which alone amounts to 6.2 kilometres of manuscripts.^[5]

The current 12-storey building was opened in 1968 and is a prominent landmark in Glasgow's West End. In 2014, there were over 1.7 million visits made to the library.^[6]