Detail from Kunstgewerbliche Schmuckformen fur die Flache XIII (c.1920), Plauen, Christian Stoll (GSA Library, Special Collections)

Collections A-Z

Find out more about our unique and distinctive collections below:

• Alasdair Gray
• Artists’ Books
• Arts in Context
• Arts Pedagogy
• Book Arts
• Burnt Books
• Charles Rennie Mackintosh
• Dissertations & Theses
• Glasgow & Scotland
• Modernist Architecture & Design
• Movable Books
• Natural History
• Pattern & Ornament
• Stoddard-Templeton
• Talwin Morris
• Text/Image
• World & Folk Cultures

Request a Viewing

All Special Collections items are listed in our catalogue and are available for consultation by anyone with an identified research need. If you would like to consult a specific item, please complete our viewing request form.

Explore Research and Creative Practice

Discover how our unique and distinctive collections and spaces have been used in creative research and practice by our researchers, students, practitioners and staff.

View & Download Our Content

We have digitised a number of items from across our special collections, which can be freely viewed online or downloaded in a variety of formats.

• Full-text of selected rare books
• Full-text of selected theses and dissertations
• Images from our Artists’ Books Collection
• Images from our Talwin Morris Collection
• Historical and artist-designed bookplates
• Historical and decorative bindings
• Decorated papers

Re-Use & Remix Our Content

Many of our digitised volumes have been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licence, meaning you can re-use or remix items from our collections in whole or in part, perfect for incorporating into artworks or projects.

• Discover our content on Wikimedia Commons

Read Stories and Features

Learn more about our unique and distinctive collections and the fascinating stories they tell in our Treasures of GSA Library blog.

Discover the History of Our Collections

Learn about the very first volumes to enter our collection, soon after Glasgow School of Art was founded in 1845, and some of the individuals who have looked after them.

Help Rebuild Our Collections

Learn how you can help us rebuild our collections lost to fire in 2014.