In addition the Archive collects a wide range of written and photographic materials relating to the development of cinema exhibition and film production in Scotland over the past 100 years.
The Archive was originally premised in Hillington with limited facilities, however it relocated in 2016 to the Library's new public centre for digital and moving image collections at Glasgow's Kelvin Hall.
[3] Principally non-fiction, the Archive's collection to date includes more than 46,000 items[4] comprising documentary, newsreel, shorts, educational, advertising and promotional films, amateur and professional productions.
The strengths of the collection lie in its ability to illustrate local community life, industrial history and the changing nature of leisure.
The television material in the Archive includes Gaelic language broadcast production from 1993 onwards, the acquisition of which is funded by Seirbheis nam Meadhanan Gaidhlig (GMS).