Catalogue help

The Society’s Collections are recorded in several ways.

Online catalogue

Finance from the Heritage Lottery Fund enabled us to retro-convert records of our heritage materials such as:

• Picture Library
• Manuscript Archive (collection-level)
• Artefacts
• Older Map Room and Library items

Records for these older and/or unique items can accessed online. All post-2000 book accessions also appear in the online catalogue.

Card catalogues

Our remaining card catalogues must currently be used to access the records of:

• Books published between 1911 and 1999
• Maps published after 1940
• Items, rather than collection-level
• Manuscript Archive items

External online sources

You can find item-level entries for our manuscript materials via the Access to Archives website.

Our individual collections are not fully comprehensive but do complement those in other establishments, so try COPAC, an online consortium catalogue for national and research libraries, to search other libraries.