The Influence of Legal Deposit Legislation on the Digital Collections of the National Library Of Scotland

Abstract

The National Library of Scotland, with its centres in Edinburgh and Glasgow, is one of six legal deposit libraries in the United Kingdom and Ireland tasked with responsibility for collecting British published print and non-print resources under the Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003 1 and the Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-print Works) Regulations 2013 2 . In this chapter we give an overview of the history of the National Library of Scotland