Agency for the Legal Deposit Libraries
Causewayside Building,
which houses the agency.
A new Agency for the Legal Deposit Libraries came into place on 2 March 2009. It operates on behalf of:
- Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford
- Cambridge University Library
- The National Library of Scotland
- The Library of Trinity College, Dublin
- The National Library of Wales.
The new agency is located at 161 Causewayside, Edinburgh, in part of the National Library of Scotland's Causewayside Building. It replaces the former Agency for the Legal Deposit Libraries which was based in London.
This change does not affect the existing arrangement of the British Library's Legal Deposit Office, which continues to operate from Boston Spa, Wetherby, West Yorkshire, LS23 7BY.
Sending material to Edinburgh
Publishers should now send their publications to the new agency address in Edinburgh. The agency in London has stopped receiving material.
Benefits to publishers
The new Agency for the Legal Deposit Libraries offers several benefits to publishers, including:
- More flexibility in the way the agency receives material from publishers
- Improved claiming process
- Improved relationship with the agency.
Moving the agency from London to Edinburgh offers advantages to the agency itself, such as:
- Better claiming and handling process
- Better facilities
- Longer-term security.
No change to legal requirements
The new agency has changed the way the operation works in terms of requesting and distributing material to legal deposit libraries. However, it does not change the legal deposit requirements that publishers in the UK and Ireland must meet.
See also:
Scottish charity number: SC040300