Queen tours National Library of Scotland

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Queen Camilla is shown around the National Library of Scotland before attending the launch of Scotland's National Year of Reading.  Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00We have some interest to show you.

00:09So we're celebrating our centenary year at the library, and we've got some items to show you, including Fabius Key as well.

00:17But very, very quickly, to give you a sense of who we are and what we do,

00:21although we have fantastic collections, the collections actually go all the way back to 1682,

00:26which was the foundation of Faculty of Athletics Library, and they have amassed a huge amount of collections,

00:32and up until 1925, as a private institution, they were taking lots and lots of materials,

00:38but we couldn't make it accessible enough for people, and that's why we needed the nursing library.

00:43So what we were going to do was to put that out to the Scottish people and say,

00:46could they raise £100,000 for the money of the library?

00:50But before that could be done, the first thing I'd like to show you is thanks to Alexander Grant,

00:56of McVickens and Wright's artistic manufacturing.

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