TY - JOUR AB - ABERDEEN, the “Granite City,” the “Silver City by the Sea,” the great headquarters of the grey granite trade, and one of the busiest and most influential mercantile cities in Scotland, has a name which is known throughout the civilized world, and a fame which has penetrated to nearly every quarter of the habitable globe. The writing of all that might legitimately be written concerning this remarkable, and in many cases unique, community of “ hard‐headed Aberdonians ” (as they are usually styled), would fill many large volumes, and as we have neither the time nor the space for the compilation of such a work of history and description as this would imply, our readers must be content with an unpretentious historical survey of what is of more immediate interest to them, viz. : the chief libraries belonging to the city of Aberdeen. These are two in number—the Library of the University and the Public Library. VL - 2 IS - 6 SN - 0307-4803 DO - 10.1108/eb008814 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/eb008814 PY - 1899 Y1 - 1899/01/01 TI - The Library World Volume 2 Issue 6 T2 - New Library World PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 140 EP - 172 Y2 - 2024/04/23 ER -