I had a wee chat with the National Library of Scotland (www.nls.uk) earlier about Scottish Post Office Directories, to ask if directories from 1912-1921 could be added to the main NLS site at https://digital.nls.uk/directories/, with the original 1911 cut-off being in place to respect the 100 years closure period being observed for the 1911 census - click on the image to read the response!
What a lovely National Library we have! Suffice to say I'll blog an update if and when there is further movement on this.
In the meantime, the post-1911 Scottish directories are available on the Internet Archive at https://archive.org/details/scottishdirectories
UPDATE: Received Inis Byrne, Digital Transition Manager, at the NLS:
Dear Chris,Many thanks for your enquiry, and for your interest in our digitised Post Office Directories.You
are right, we have digitised many more directories than are currently
available on our website. In fact, this reaches beyond 1921 right into
the early 1950s in line with the 70-year copyright rule which applies to
these publications. However, the way the volumes dated up to 1911 have
been made available online was a very complex one and in order for us to
be able to integrate the new digitisations a lot of extra work is
required which we are still to complete. Once this work is finished, the
additional volumes will be available through our website, alongside a
set of digitised trade directories.Many good wishes,Ines
(With thanks to the NLS, and to Inis)
Chris
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