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Collection name	Subject Area
Agnew	Scottish industrial history, archaeology, Scottish literature. 18th-20th century.
Aldred	Communism, socialism, anarchism, Spanish Civil War. 19th-20th century.
Anderson	Science, theology, history, travel. 18th century.
Architecture	Architecture, architectural design and decoration. 18th-20th century.
Archive on the Scottish Parliament	Scottish Parliament, politics, election ephemera. 20th century onwards.

Buchanan Society	Buchanan family history, works by and about George Buchanan. 16th century onwards.

Carter Collection	Economics, education. 20th century.

Dilettanti Society	Fine arts, art history, exhibition and sale catalogues. 18th-19th century.

Eaton	Mainly mathematics but also includes education, literature and history. 19th-20th century.

Food Science	Conference proceedings and journals on food science.

Geddes	Town planning, geography, history, science, works by and about Patrick Geddes. Dating from the 17th century onwards.
German Athenaeum	German literature dating mainly from the 19th century.
Gibson	Mathematics texts from the 19th-20th century.
Giles	Detective and suspense fiction dating from the late 19th-20th century.
Glasgow Novel	Glasgow fiction from the 19th century onwards.

Jack Williams	Naval history, World War II. 19th-20th century.

Laing	Mathematics. Dating from 17th-19th century.
Labour History	Socialism, left wing politics. 19th century onwards.

Mechanics/Anderson's	Science, history, Glasgow. 17th-19th century.
Muirhead	Psychology, philosophy, science, history. 18th-19th century.

National Council of Labour Colleges	Socialism, history, labour movement, sociology. 19th-20th century.
Nicoll	Socialism, communism. 19th-20th century.
New Towns	New towns, town planning. Dating from 1920s onwards.

Palaeontology	Palaeontology. 19th century.

Rare Books	History, theology, literature, science, mathematics, travel. 17th-20th century.
Robertson	Scottish history, travel, Glasgow. 17th-20th century.
Royal Scottish Geographical Society Reference	Polar exploration, mountaineering, travel. 19th century onwards.

Scottish Farm Servants Union	Agriculture, labour movement. 19th-20th century.
Scottish Hotel School Antiquarian	Cookery. 18th-20th century.
Scottish Hotel School Cookery	Cookery. 20th century.
Scottish Mountaineering Club	Mountaineering, travel, topography, history, guidebooks and maps. 18^th Century onwards
Stock Exchange	Glasgow Stock Exchange. 19th-20th century.
Strathclyde	Publications by members of staff, departments and official publications of the University of Strathclyde. 19th century onwards.
Sutherland	Socialism, women, labour movement. 20th century.

Young	Alchemy, science. 15th century onwards.

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