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Glasgow City Archives (GCA)
Street address: The Mitchell Library, 201 North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN, Scotland, United Kingdom
Website: 44 (0) 141 287 2910
Fax: 44 (0) 141 226 8452
E-mail: lil@csglasgow.org
Website: http://www.mitchelllibrary.org/
Contact: Marion Beaton Archives and Special Collections Co-ordinator
E-mail: marion.beaton@csglasgow.org
Contact: Dr Irene O'Brien Archivist
E-mail: irene.obrien@csglasgow.org
Opening hours: 9am-8pm Mon-Thu, 9am-5pm Fri-Sat, closed Sun
Accessibility: Disabled access via Granville Street entrance, automatic doors, lifts, two disabled toilets, resource unit for the visually impaired
 Following the reorganisation of local government in April 1966, the former Strathclyde Regional Archives Department joined with the former Glasgow District Council Libraries Department to form the new City Council department renamed Glasgow City Libraries and Archives (GCA). Soon after it was deemed expedient to include the department within Reference Services where there are logical subject associations and information links were already well established.The main objectives of the archive service are to select and acquire records for permanent preservation and to maintain a records management programme for the non-current records of the authority.
GCA houses the following collections: (i) Local authority records from Glasgow and most of the area of the former Strathclyde Regions; (ii) Family, estate, business and personal archives dating from 12th-20th centuries; (iii) Monographs; (iv) Serials; (v) Cuttings; (vi) Photography Collections; (vii) Postcards; (viii) Original works of art/prints/engravings; (ix) Slides/lantern slides; (x) Audio cassettes; (xi) Video cassettes; (xii) Ephemera; and (xiii) Maps and plans.
The Glasgow City Archives is based at the The Mitchell Library and is one of its subject-based departments. The secretariat of the Scottish branch of the Society of Archivists is based here:
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