Forthcoming libraries

Copac currently contains the catalogues of the RLUK member libraries plus an increasing range of special libraries, other specialist databases and collections.

In addition, the catalogues of the following libraries will be made available on Copac in the future. Some of the catalogues will be added thanks to the Copac Challenge Fund. This is an initiative jointly funded by the Research Libraries UK (RLUK), the Research Information Network (RIN) and the British Library.


  • Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales Library
    The Museum's library exists primarily to support the curatorial staff at the National Museum's seven sites throughout Wales, covering archaeology & numismatics, fine and decorative art, botany, geology, industrial and social history, and zoology. The Library contains a number of special collections, including books on early natural history, from the 15th century, tours of Wales in the 18th and 19th centuries, and museology, as well as selection of private press material, including the Gregynog and the Golden Cockerel presses.
  • Henry Moore Institute
    The library is a specialist resource for the study of sculpture with particular strengths in British sculpture post-1875 and international modern and contemporary sculpture. The collection includes a significant collection of exhibition catalogues and rare materials, including limited editions, artists' books, ephemera and influential journals. The catalogue is being added as part of the Challenge Fund.
  • The Leighton Library, Dunblane
    The Leighton Library in Dunblane, Perthshire contains around 4,000 volumes and 78 manuscripts, dating from the 16th century to the 19th century. The collection is founded on the personal library of Archbishop Robert Leighton (1611-1684) and covers a variety of subject areas, including history and politics (particularly 17th century), theology, medicine, geography, languages and the occult.
  • The London Library
    Founded in 1841, the London Library is the world's largest independent lending library. With more than one million books and periodicals in over 50 languages, the collection includes works from the 16th century to the latest publications covering all subjects in the arts and humanities.
  • The Paul Mellon Centre Library
    The library at the Paul Mellon Centre for studies in British Art covers British painting, sculpture, drawing, prints, architecture and garden history from the sixteenth to the mid-twentieth century, as well as eighteenth-century British decorative arts. The library holds books, pamphlets, exhibition catalogues, periodicals, and theses from the UK and overseas.
  • Reading University Library Special Collections
    Copac currently contains records related to the 19th Century Pamphlet Collection. We will be loading records for their Special Collections which are particularly strong in the history of medicine and science, publishing and printing history, theology, philosophy, classics and literature and early agriculture and horticulture. The most well known collection is the Beckett collection which contains items by and about the writer and dramatist Samuel Beckett. The collections are being added as part of the Challenge Fund.
  • Royal College of Psychiatrists Antiquarian Collection
    The Antiquarian Collection at the College consists of English, German and French language books donated between 1895 and 1971, the majority by Doctor Daniel Hack Tuke. Some of the books date back to the 15th Century. The books are either written or edited by notable authors, including Daniel Hack Tuke, Forbes Winslow, Henry Maudsley, John Connolly and Emil Kraepelin. The collection is a great source of information on the study of psychiatry and psychology and covers the causes and cures of nervous disorders, administration of asylums, causes, prevention and treatment of mental disorders, habitual drunkenness, to name but a few.
  • Library of the Society of Friends
    Founded in 1673 the Library of the Society of Friends, situated at Friends House opposite Euston Station in London, is one of the largest collections in the world relating to Quakers and their wide-ranging activities. It is a major resource for understanding peace, prison reform, humanitarian assistance, and the anti-slavery movement as well as Quaker history, faith, thought and practice. It is free and open to everyone.
  • The Wiener Library
    Founded in 1933, the Wiener Library is Britain's largest archive on the Holocaust and Nazi era. The Library holds an exceptional collection of over one million items including published and unpublished works, press cuttings, photographs, press cuttings and eyewitness testimonies. As much of the collection was amassed during the years of the Holocaust, the Library contains material of great rarity and we continue to actively collect books, unique documents, photographs and personal archives.

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