The Scottish Record Office

Abstract

The General Register House, Edinburgh, is one of Robert Adam's finest public buildings; it is also one of the first record repositories in Europe specially designed for the preservation of national archives. The building is of solid stone throughout and consists of a basement and two storeys, rectangular in shape, laid out in small storage rooms round a large central dome. The admirably functional construction and design give security against fire, damp and theft and also enable records to be brought to the centre with the minimum of delay. Since the main consideration of archivists must be, first, the safety and, secondly, the accessibility of the records in their charge, the building forms a fitting home for the Scottish Record Office.

Citation

IMRIE, J. (1961), "The Scottish Record Office", Library Review, Vol. 18 No. 3, pp. 178-180. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb012348