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The terminology for a library is that they "issue a loan". Thus, in the library records the tabulated tables talk of issues; the public will more-commonly know these as a loan.

And, can you please let me finish adding information to the article before I've yet another edit conflict? I'm actually sat in the building, and have limited computer access time to do so. -- Brian McNeil / ^talk 10:00, 15 May 2012 (UTC) reply

• I'm by-and-large done for the time being. There's a load of stuff in the google-linked source. Other than that, it's just wait and see what I can come up with from Central library, Edinburgh and next week's photo-op. -- Brian McNeil / ^talk 11:36, 15 May 2012 (UTC) reply

Here are the catalogue entries for the sources I cribbed from in the Reference section of Edinburgh's Central Library:

Lum hats in paradise: Edinburgh City Libraries, 1890-1990

ISBN: 0900353112, 9780900353116

Author: McDougall, Sheena

Edinburgh Public Libraries: 1890-1950: a handbook and history of sixty years' progress

Edinburgh Corporation, Public Libraries Committee, 1951

The public libraries of Edinburgh, 1800-1970: an historical survey

Author: White, Alan G.D. 1975

Hope that helps, neither of the last two have an ISBN, and the last one itself is really just a manuscript, I believe, written/researched by one of the library staff and bound whilst they still operated their own bindery. -- Brian McNeil / ^talk 16:13, 16 May 2012 (UTC) reply