Stockbridge public library, built in 1898, is one of

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's 28 freely accessible libraries, located in the Stockbridge area of the city. The library is currently open six days a week and, in addition to the collection of books, provides "bookbug" sessions for the under-fives, a knitting club and acts as one of the city's business hubs As with all of the city's libraries, Stockbridge library uses the

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system for its adult collection. Since 1974, when

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dropped the classification system, Edinburgh is the only area in the UK where public libraries use the US classification scheme. Children's books, and some non-English works, are indexed using the Dewey Decimal Classification scheme.

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Stockbridge library's Facebook pageCity council page for the library
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