Museum Represents a museum WC Yes EventsForChildren No Place The town or city Leadhills HearingLoop No IsIncludedThisYear No DisabledAccess No OpeningTime1 10 am to 5 pm OpeningDate1 13/9/2015 OpeningTime2 10 am to 5 pm IsNewThisYear No ID Google Panorama ID 12085 Refreshments No Street The street address 15 Main Street Postcode ML12 6XP Parking Yes DisabledWC No LimitedAccess No NotAccessible No Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Leadhills Miner's Library Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived southlanarkshire Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 3461 Type The nature or genre of the resource Museum Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,55.41528,-3.761562; Description An account of the resource <p>Founded in 1741 Leadhills Miners Library is the world's oldest working-class subscription library. Containing 3,000 of some of the rarest books in Scotland, the library is recognised as being of national importance.</p><p>As well as its book collection, the library holds the records of the Scots Mining Co from the 1730s to the 1850s in 42 volumes. The library also contains an impressive collection of letters, documents and photographs that combine to tell the history of Leadhills and its people.</p>