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electronic and digital resources</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Online,_electronic_and_digital_resources-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Philatelic_collections" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Philatelic_collections"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.4</span> <span>Philatelic collections</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Philatelic_collections-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Facilities" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Facilities"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span>Facilities</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Facilities-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Exhibitions" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Exhibitions"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Exhibitions</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Exhibitions-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Services_and_departments" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Services_and_departments"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Services and departments</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Services_and_departments-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Services and departments subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Services_and_departments-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Business_and_IP_Centre" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Business_and_IP_Centre"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.1</span> <span>Business and IP Centre</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Business_and_IP_Centre-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Document_Supply_Service" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Document_Supply_Service"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.2</span> <span>Document Supply Service</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Document_Supply_Service-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Sound_archive" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Sound_archive"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.3</span> <span>Sound archive</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Sound_archive-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Moving_image_services" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Moving_image_services"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.4</span> <span>Moving image services</span> </div> </a> <ul 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class="vector-toc-numb">9.2</span> <span>Citations</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Citations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_reading" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Further_reading"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10</span> <span>Further reading</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Further_reading-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> 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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%83%D8%AA%D8%A8%D8%A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B7%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A9" title="المكتبة البريطانية – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="المكتبة البريطانية" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_British_Library" title="The British Library – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="The British Library" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britaniya_Milli_Kitabxanas%C4%B1" title="Britaniya Milli Kitabxanası – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Britaniya Milli Kitabxanası" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AC%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%9F%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B6_%E0%A6%97%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A5%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%97%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0" title="ব্রিটিশ গ্রন্থাগার – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="ব্রিটিশ গ্রন্থাগার" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ba mw-list-item"><a href="https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%BA%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BF%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0%D2%BB%D1%8B" title="Британия китапханаһы – Bashkir" lang="ba" hreflang="ba" data-title="Британия китапханаһы" data-language-autonym="Башҡортса" data-language-local-name="Bashkir" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Башҡортса</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%80%D1%8B%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%B1%D1%96%D0%B1%D0%BB%D1%96%D1%8F%D1%82%D1%8D%D0%BA%D0%B0" title="Брытанская бібліятэка – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Брытанская бібліятэка" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%80%D1%8B%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%B1%D1%96%D0%B1%D0%BB%D1%96%D1%8F%D1%82%D1%8D%D0%BA%D0%B0" title="Брытанская бібліятэка – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Брытанская бібліятэка" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%B1%D0%B8%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%B0" title="Британска библиотека – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Британска библиотека" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britanska_biblioteka" title="Britanska biblioteka – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Britanska biblioteka" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Library" title="British Library – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="British Library" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblioteca_Brit%C3%A0nica" title="Biblioteca Britànica – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Biblioteca Britànica" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britsk%C3%A1_knihovna" title="Britská knihovna – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Britská knihovna" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llyfrgell_Brydeinig" title="Llyfrgell Brydeinig – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Llyfrgell Brydeinig" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Library" title="British Library – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="British Library" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de badge-Q17437798 badge-goodarticle mw-list-item" title="good article badge"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Library" title="British Library – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="British Library" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Briti_Raamatukogu" title="Briti Raamatukogu – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Briti Raamatukogu" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%92%CF%81%CE%B5%CF%84%CE%B1%CE%BD%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%AE_%CE%92%CE%B9%CE%B2%CE%BB%CE%B9%CE%BF%CE%B8%CE%AE%CE%BA%CE%B7" title="Βρετανική Βιβλιοθήκη – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Βρετανική Βιβλιοθήκη" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Library" title="British Library – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="British Library" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brita_Biblioteko" title="Brita Biblioteko – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Brita Biblioteko" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Library" title="British Library – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="British Library" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%AE%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%87_%D8%A8%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%A7" title="کتابخانه بریتانیا – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="کتابخانه بریتانیا" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Library" title="British Library – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="British Library" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Library" title="British Library – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="British Library" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Library" title="British Library – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="British Library" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8C%80%EC%98%81_%EB%8F%84%EC%84%9C%EA%B4%80" title="대영 도서관 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="대영 도서관" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B2%D6%80%D5%AB%D5%BF%D5%A1%D5%B6%D5%A1%D5%AF%D5%A1%D5%B6_%D5%A3%D6%80%D5%A1%D5%A4%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%A1%D5%B6" title="Բրիտանական գրադարան – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Բրիտանական գրադարան" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AC%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%9F%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B6_%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%AF" title="ब्रिटिश पुस्तकालय – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="ब्रिटिश पुस्तकालय" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britanska_knji%C5%BEnica" title="Britanska knjižnica – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Britanska knjižnica" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpustakaan_Britania" title="Perpustakaan Britania – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Perpustakaan Britania" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Ej%C3%B3%C3%B0b%C3%B3kasafn_Bretlands" title="Þjóðbókasafn Bretlands – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Þjóðbókasafn Bretlands" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Library" title="British Library – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="British Library" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%94%D7%A1%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%99%D7%94_%D7%94%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%98%D7%99%D7%AA" title="הספרייה הבריטית – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="הספרייה הבריטית" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%8B%D2%9B_%D0%BA%D1%96%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BF%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0" title="Британдық кітапхана – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Британдық кітапхана" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirt%C3%BBkxaneya_Br%C3%AEtanyay%C3%AA" title="Pirtûkxaneya Brîtanyayê – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="Pirtûkxaneya Brîtanyayê" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kurdî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliotheca_Britannica" title="Bibliotheca Britannica – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Bibliotheca Britannica" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britu_bibliot%C4%93ka" title="Britu bibliotēka – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Britu bibliotēka" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brit%C5%B3_biblioteka" title="Britų biblioteka – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Britų biblioteka" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Library" title="British Library – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="British Library" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%B1%D0%B8%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%B0" title="Британска библиотека – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Британска библиотека" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AC%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%9F%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%9F%E0%B5%80%E0%B4%B7%E0%B5%8D_%E0%B4%B2%E0%B5%88%E0%B4%AC%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%B1%E0%B4%BF" title="ബ്രിട്ടീഷ് ലൈബ്രറി – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="ബ്രിട്ടീഷ് ലൈബ്രറി" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%83%D8%AA%D8%A8%D9%87_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B7%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%87" title="المكتبه البريطانيه – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="المكتبه البريطانيه" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpustakaan_British" title="Perpustakaan British – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Perpustakaan British" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B9%D0%BD_%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%BC%D1%8B%D0%BD_%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD" title="Британийн номын сан – Mongolian" lang="mn" hreflang="mn" data-title="Британийн номын сан" data-language-autonym="Монгол" data-language-local-name="Mongolian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Монгол</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Library" title="British Library – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="British Library" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ne mw-list-item"><a href="https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AC%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%9F%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B8_%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%AF" title="ब्रिटिस पुस्तकालय – Nepali" lang="ne" hreflang="ne" data-title="ब्रिटिस पुस्तकालय" data-language-autonym="नेपाली" data-language-local-name="Nepali" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>नेपाली</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A7%E8%8B%B1%E5%9B%B3%E6%9B%B8%E9%A4%A8" title="大英図書館 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="大英図書館" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Library" title="British Library – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="British Library" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britaniya_kutubxonasi" title="Britaniya kutubxonasi – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Britaniya kutubxonasi" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%AC%E0%A9%8D%E0%A8%B0%E0%A8%BF%E0%A8%9F%E0%A8%BF%E0%A8%B8%E0%A8%BC_%E0%A8%B2%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%87%E0%A8%AC%E0%A8%B0%E0%A9%87%E0%A8%B0%E0%A9%80" title="ਬ੍ਰਿਟਿਸ਼ ਲਾਇਬਰੇਰੀ – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਬ੍ਰਿਟਿਸ਼ ਲਾਇਬਰੇਰੀ" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ps mw-list-item"><a href="https://ps.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%DB%90%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%8A_%DA%A9%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86" title="برېتانوي کتابتون – Pashto" lang="ps" hreflang="ps" data-title="برېتانوي کتابتون" data-language-autonym="پښتو" data-language-local-name="Pashto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پښتو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblioteka_Brytyjska" title="Biblioteka Brytyjska – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Biblioteka Brytyjska" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblioteca_Brit%C3%A2nica" title="Biblioteca Britânica – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Biblioteca Britânica" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblioteca_Britanic%C4%83" title="Biblioteca Britanică – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Biblioteca Britanică" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%B1%D0%B8%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%B0" title="Британская библиотека – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Британская библиотека" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sco mw-list-item"><a href="https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Librar" title="British Librar – Scots" lang="sco" hreflang="sco" data-title="British Librar" data-language-autonym="Scots" data-language-local-name="Scots" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Scots</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Library" title="British Library – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="British Library" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britanska_knji%C5%BEnica" title="Britanska knjižnica – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Britanska knjižnica" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britanska_biblioteka" title="Britanska biblioteka – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Britanska biblioteka" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Library" title="British Library – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="British Library" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Library" title="British Library – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="British Library" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%A4%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%A9%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AF_%E0%AE%A8%E0%AF%82%E0%AE%B2%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%8D" title="பிரித்தானிய நூலகம் – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="பிரித்தானிய நூலகம்" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>தமிழ்</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tg mw-list-item"><a href="https://tg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%B8_%D0%91%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%91" title="Китобхонаи Британиё – Tajik" lang="tg" hreflang="tg" data-title="Китобхонаи Британиё" data-language-autonym="Тоҷикӣ" data-language-local-name="Tajik" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Тоҷикӣ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britanya_K%C3%BCt%C3%BCphanesi" title="Britanya Kütüphanesi – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="Britanya Kütüphanesi" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkçe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%B1%D1%96%D0%B1%D0%BB%D1%96%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%B0" title="Британська бібліотека – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Британська бібліотека" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Українська</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ur mw-list-item"><a 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-0.12694</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Location</th><td class="infobox-data">96 <a href="/wiki/Euston_Road" title="Euston Road">Euston Road</a><br />London, <a href="/wiki/NW_postcode_area" title="NW postcode area">NW1</a> 2DB, England</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Type</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/National_library" title="National library">National library</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Established</th><td class="infobox-data">1 July 1973<span class="noprint"> (51 years ago)</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1 July 1973</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Architect" title="Architect">Architect(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Colin_St_John_Wilson" title="Colin St John Wilson">Colin St John Wilson</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Mary_Jane_Long" class="mw-redirect" title="Mary Jane Long">Mary Jane Long</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Branches</th><td class="infobox-data">1 (<a href="/wiki/Boston_Spa" title="Boston Spa">Boston Spa</a>, West Yorkshire)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="text-align:center;background: #ededed;">Collection</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Items collected</th><td class="infobox-data">Books, <a href="/wiki/Academic_journal" title="Academic journal">journals</a>, newspapers, magazines, <a href="/wiki/Sound_recording" class="mw-redirect" title="Sound recording">sound and music recordings</a>, patents, <a href="/wiki/Database" title="Database">databases</a>, maps, <a href="/wiki/Postage_stamp" title="Postage stamp">stamps</a>, <a href="/wiki/Printmaking" title="Printmaking">prints</a>, drawings and <a href="/wiki/Manuscript" title="Manuscript">manuscripts</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Size</th><td class="infobox-data">170–200 million+ items:<br /><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>13,950,000 books<sup id="cite_ref-ARA_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ARA-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li><li>824,101 serial titles</li><li>351,116 manuscripts (single and volumes)</li><li>8,266,276 philatelic items</li><li>4,347,505 cartographic items</li><li>1,607,885 music scores</li><li>6,000,000 sound recordings</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Legal_deposit" title="Legal deposit">Legal deposit</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Yes, provided in law by: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Legal_Deposit_Libraries_Act_2003" title="Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003">Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003</a> (United Kingdom)</li> <li>Copyright and Related Rights Act, 2000 (Republic of Ireland)</li></ul> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="text-align:center;background: #ededed;">Access and use</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Access requirements</th><td class="infobox-data">Open to anyone with a need to use the collections and services</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="text-align:center;background: #ededed;">Other information</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Budget</th><td class="infobox-data">£142 million<sup id="cite_ref-ARA_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ARA-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Chair</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Carol_Black_(rheumatologist)" title="Carol Black (rheumatologist)">Dame Carol Black</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Chief Executive</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Rebecca_Lawrence" title="Rebecca Lawrence">Rebecca Lawrence</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bl.uk">bl<wbr />.uk</a></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="text-align:center;background: #ededed;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /><div style="border:4px solid #FFC0CB; line-height: 1.5; text-align: center;"> <a href="/wiki/Listed_building#England_and_Wales" title="Listed building">Listed Building</a> – Grade I</div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Official name</th><td class="infobox-data">The British Library, piazza, boundary wall and railings to Ossulston Street, Euston Road and Midland Road</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Designated</th><td class="infobox-data">31 July 2015<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">2015-07-31</span>)</span></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Reference no.</th><td class="infobox-data">1426345<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><th colspan="2"> </th></tr><tr style="display:none"><th colspan="2"> </th></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>British Library</b> is a <a href="/wiki/Research_library" title="Research library">research library</a> in <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a> that is the <a href="/wiki/National_library" title="National library">national library</a> of the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is one of the <a href="/wiki/Largest_libraries_in_the_world" class="mw-redirect" title="Largest libraries in the world">largest libraries in the world</a>. It is estimated to contain between 170 and 200 million items from many countries.<sup id="cite_ref-Wight_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wight-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-auto_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-BL_Exhibition_Notes_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BL_Exhibition_Notes-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-How_Big_is_the_UK_Web_Archive_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-How_Big_is_the_UK_Web_Archive-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As a <a href="/wiki/Legal_deposit" title="Legal deposit">legal deposit</a> library, the British Library receives copies of all books produced in the United Kingdom and Ireland, including a significant proportion of overseas titles distributed in the United Kingdom. The Library is a <a href="/wiki/Non-departmental_public_body" title="Non-departmental public body">non-departmental public body</a> sponsored by the <a href="/wiki/Department_for_Culture,_Media_and_Sport" title="Department for Culture, Media and Sport">Department for Culture, Media and Sport</a>. </p><p>The British Library is a major research library, with items in many languages<sup id="cite_ref-BL-CDP_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BL-CDP-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in many formats, both print and digital: books, manuscripts, journals, newspapers, magazines, sound and music recordings, videos, play-scripts, patents, databases, maps, stamps, prints, drawings. The Library's collections include around 14 million books,<sup id="cite_ref-BLhome_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BLhome-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> along with substantial holdings of manuscripts and items dating as far back as 2000 BC. The library maintains a programme for content acquisition and adds some three million items each year occupying 9.6 kilometres (6 mi) of new shelf space.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Prior to 1973, the Library was part of the <a href="/wiki/British_Museum" title="British Museum">British Museum</a>, also in the <a href="/wiki/Borough_of_Camden" class="mw-redirect" title="Borough of Camden">Borough of Camden</a>. The Library's modern purpose-built building stands next to <a href="/wiki/St_Pancras_station" class="mw-redirect" title="St Pancras station">St Pancras station</a> on <a href="/wiki/Euston_Road" title="Euston Road">Euston Road</a> in <a href="/wiki/Somers_Town,_London" title="Somers Town, London">Somers Town</a>, on the site of a former goods yard.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There is an additional storage building and reading room in the branch library near <a href="/wiki/Boston_Spa" title="Boston Spa">Boston Spa</a> in Yorkshire. The St Pancras building was officially opened by Queen <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_II" title="Elizabeth II">Elizabeth II</a> on 25 June 1998, and is classified as a Grade I <a href="/wiki/Listed_building" title="Listed building">listed building</a> "of exceptional interest" for its architecture and history.<sup id="cite_ref-listed_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-listed-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Library&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_foundations_(1972–1997)"><span id="Early_foundations_.281972.E2.80.931997.29"></span>Early foundations (1972–1997)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Library&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early foundations (1972–1997)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The British Library was created on 1 July 1973 as a result of the British Library Act 1972.<sup id="cite_ref-blhistory_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-blhistory-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Prior to this, the national library was part of the <a href="/wiki/British_Museum" title="British Museum">British Museum</a>, which provided the bulk of the holdings of the new library, alongside smaller organisations which were folded in (such as the <a href="/wiki/National_Central_Library_(England_and_Wales)" title="National Central Library (England and Wales)">National Central Library</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the National Lending Library for Science and Technology and the <a href="/wiki/British_National_Bibliography" title="British National Bibliography">British National Bibliography</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-blhistory_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-blhistory-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1974 functions previously exercised by the Office for Scientific and Technical Information were taken over; in 1982 the <a href="/wiki/India_Office_Library_and_Records" class="mw-redirect" title="India Office Library and Records">India Office Library and Records</a> and the <a href="/wiki/HMSO" class="mw-redirect" title="HMSO">HMSO</a> Binderies became British Library responsibilities.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1983, the Library absorbed the <a href="/wiki/National_Sound_Archive" class="mw-redirect" title="National Sound Archive">National Sound Archive</a>, which holds many sound and video recordings, with over a million discs and thousands of tapes.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The core of the Library's historical collections is based on a series of donations and acquisitions from the 18th century. These are known as the "foundation collections",<sup id="cite_ref-Wedgeworth1993_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wedgeworth1993-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and they include the books and manuscripts of <a href="/wiki/Sir_Hans_Sloane" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Hans Sloane">Sir Hans Sloane</a> (d. 1753), whose decision to donate his library and natural history collection to the nation led to the formation of the <a href="/wiki/British_Museum" title="British Museum">British Museum</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The trustees of the museum also purchased the <a href="/wiki/Harleian_Library" title="Harleian Library">Harleian Library</a> collection of <a href="/wiki/Robert_Harley,_1st_Earl_of_Oxford_and_Mortimer" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer">Robert Harley</a> (d. 1721) for £10,000;<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Harris_p2_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Harris_p2-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Also provided to the library was the <a href="/wiki/Cotton_library" title="Cotton library">Cotton library</a>, the former collection of <a href="/wiki/Sir_Robert_Cotton,_1st_Baronet,_of_Connington" title="Sir Robert Cotton, 1st Baronet, of Connington">Sir Robert Cotton</a> (d. 1631); this was already in public possession and had been housed at <a href="/wiki/Ashburnham_House" title="Ashburnham House">Ashburnham House</a>, Westminster.<sup id="cite_ref-Harris_p2_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Harris_p2-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These three collections were later joined by the <a href="/wiki/Old_Royal_Library" class="mw-redirect" title="Old Royal Library">Old Royal Library</a>, donated by <a href="/wiki/George_II_of_Great_Britain" title="George II of Great Britain">George II</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the <a href="/wiki/King%27s_Library" title="King's Library">King's Library</a> of <a href="/wiki/George_III" title="George III">George III</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Entrance_to_the_British_Library,_Street_5,_Thorp_Arch_Trading_Estate_(10th_July_2020).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Entrance_to_the_British_Library%2C_Street_5%2C_Thorp_Arch_Trading_Estate_%2810th_July_2020%29.jpg/220px-Entrance_to_the_British_Library%2C_Street_5%2C_Thorp_Arch_Trading_Estate_%2810th_July_2020%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Entrance_to_the_British_Library%2C_Street_5%2C_Thorp_Arch_Trading_Estate_%2810th_July_2020%29.jpg/330px-Entrance_to_the_British_Library%2C_Street_5%2C_Thorp_Arch_Trading_Estate_%2810th_July_2020%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Entrance_to_the_British_Library%2C_Street_5%2C_Thorp_Arch_Trading_Estate_%2810th_July_2020%29.jpg/440px-Entrance_to_the_British_Library%2C_Street_5%2C_Thorp_Arch_Trading_Estate_%2810th_July_2020%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3872" data-file-height="2176" /></a><figcaption>The British Library branch at <a href="/wiki/Boston_Spa" title="Boston Spa">Boston Spa</a> (on <a href="/wiki/Thorp_Arch_Trading_Estate" title="Thorp Arch Trading Estate">Thorp Arch Trading Estate</a>), <a href="/wiki/West_Yorkshire" title="West Yorkshire">West Yorkshire</a></figcaption></figure> <p>For many years its collections were dispersed in various buildings around <a href="/wiki/Central_London" title="Central London">central London</a>, in places such as <a href="/wiki/Bloomsbury" title="Bloomsbury">Bloomsbury</a> (within the British Museum), <a href="/wiki/Chancery_Lane_tube_station" title="Chancery Lane tube station">Chancery Lane</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bayswater" title="Bayswater">Bayswater</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Holborn" title="Holborn">Holborn</a>, with an <a href="/wiki/Interlibrary_loan" title="Interlibrary loan">interlibrary lending</a> centre at <a href="/wiki/Boston_Spa" title="Boston Spa">Boston Spa</a>, 2.5 miles (4 km) east of <a href="/wiki/Wetherby" title="Wetherby">Wetherby</a> in West Yorkshire (situated on Thorp Arch Trading Estate), and the newspaper library at <a href="/wiki/Colindale" title="Colindale">Colindale</a>, north-west London.<sup id="cite_ref-blhistory_13-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-blhistory-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Move_to_St_Pancras_(1997–present)"><span id="Move_to_St_Pancras_.281997.E2.80.93present.29"></span>Move to St Pancras (1997–present)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Library&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Move to St Pancras (1997–present)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Initial plans for the British Library required demolition of an integral part of Bloomsbury – a seven-acre swathe of streets immediately in front of the Museum, so that the Library could be situated directly opposite. After a long and hard-fought campaign led by Dr George Wagner, this decision was overturned and the library was instead constructed by <a href="/wiki/John_Laing_plc" class="mw-redirect" title="John Laing plc">John Laing plc</a><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> on a site at <a href="/wiki/Euston_Road" title="Euston Road">Euston Road</a> next to <a href="/wiki/St_Pancras_railway_station" title="St Pancras railway station">St Pancras railway station</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Following the closure of the Round Reading Room on 25 October 1997 the library stock began to be moved into the St Pancras building. Before the end of that year the first of eleven new reading rooms had opened and the moving of stock was continuing.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From 1997 to 2009 the main collection was housed in this single new building and the collection of British and overseas newspapers was housed at <a href="/wiki/Colindale" title="Colindale">Colindale</a>. In July 2008 the Library announced that it would be moving low-use items to a new storage facility in <a href="/wiki/Boston_Spa" title="Boston Spa">Boston Spa</a> in Yorkshire and that it planned to close the newspaper library at Colindale, ahead of a later move to a similar facility on the same site.<sup id="cite_ref-BL_Collection_Moves_Strategy_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BL_Collection_Moves_Strategy-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From January 2009 to April 2012 over 200 km of material was moved to the Additional Storage Building and is now delivered to British Library Reading Rooms in London on request by a daily shuttle service.<sup id="cite_ref-200km_material_moved_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-200km_material_moved-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Construction work on the Additional Storage Building was completed in 2013 and the newspaper library at Colindale closed on 8 November 2013. The collection has now been split between the St Pancras and Boston Spa sites.<sup id="cite_ref-ColindaleCloseDate_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ColindaleCloseDate-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Library previously had a book storage depot in <a href="/wiki/Woolwich" title="Woolwich">Woolwich</a>, south-east London, which is no longer in use.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_British_Library_Entrance_Hall,_London,_July_21,_2024.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/The_British_Library_Entrance_Hall%2C_London%2C_July_21%2C_2024.jpg/220px-The_British_Library_Entrance_Hall%2C_London%2C_July_21%2C_2024.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/The_British_Library_Entrance_Hall%2C_London%2C_July_21%2C_2024.jpg/330px-The_British_Library_Entrance_Hall%2C_London%2C_July_21%2C_2024.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/The_British_Library_Entrance_Hall%2C_London%2C_July_21%2C_2024.jpg/440px-The_British_Library_Entrance_Hall%2C_London%2C_July_21%2C_2024.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4032" data-file-height="3024" /></a><figcaption>Entrance hall with tapestry</figcaption></figure> <p>The new library was designed specially for the purpose by the architect <a href="/wiki/Colin_St_John_Wilson" title="Colin St John Wilson">Colin St John Wilson</a><sup id="cite_ref-blhistory_13-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-blhistory-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in collaboration with his wife <a href="/wiki/MJ_Long" title="MJ Long">MJ Long</a>, who came up with the plan that was subsequently developed and built.<sup id="cite_ref-MJLongObit_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MJLongObit-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Facing Euston Road is a large piazza that includes pieces of <a href="/wiki/Public_art" title="Public art">public art</a>, such as large sculptures by <a href="/wiki/Eduardo_Paolozzi" title="Eduardo Paolozzi">Eduardo Paolozzi</a> (a bronze statue based on <a href="/wiki/William_Blake" title="William Blake">William Blake</a>'s study of <a href="/wiki/Isaac_Newton" title="Isaac Newton">Isaac Newton</a>) and <a href="/wiki/Antony_Gormley" title="Antony Gormley">Antony Gormley</a>. It was the largest public building constructed in the United Kingdom in the 20th century.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Walkowitz2009_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Walkowitz2009-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:British_Library_%2B_St_Pancras_7527-31hug.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/British_Library_%2B_St_Pancras_7527-31hug.jpg/220px-British_Library_%2B_St_Pancras_7527-31hug.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="92" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/British_Library_%2B_St_Pancras_7527-31hug.jpg/330px-British_Library_%2B_St_Pancras_7527-31hug.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/British_Library_%2B_St_Pancras_7527-31hug.jpg/440px-British_Library_%2B_St_Pancras_7527-31hug.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4419" data-file-height="1839" /></a><figcaption>The British Library with <a href="/wiki/St_Pancras_railway_station" title="St Pancras railway station">St Pancras railway station</a> behind it</figcaption></figure> <p>In the middle of the building is a six-storey glass tower inspired by a similar structure in the <a href="/wiki/Beinecke_Library" class="mw-redirect" title="Beinecke Library">Beinecke Library</a>, containing the <a href="/wiki/King%27s_Library" title="King's Library">King's Library</a> with 65,000 printed volumes along with other pamphlets, manuscripts and maps collected by King George III between 1763 and 1820.<sup id="cite_ref-Nichols1870_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nichols1870-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In December 2009 a new storage building at Boston Spa was opened by <a href="/wiki/Rosie_Winterton" title="Rosie Winterton">Rosie Winterton</a>. The new facility, costing £26 million, has a capacity for seven million items, stored in more than 140,000 <a href="/wiki/Barcode" title="Barcode">bar-coded</a> containers and which are retrieved by robots<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> from the 162.7 miles of temperature and humidity-controlled storage space.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Euston Road building was Grade I listed on 1 August 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-listed_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-listed-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It has plans to open a third location in <a href="/wiki/Leeds" title="Leeds">Leeds</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> potentially located in the Grade 1 listed <a href="/wiki/Temple_Works" title="Temple Works">Temple Works</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Digital_archiving_and_Digital_Library_System">Digital archiving and Digital Library System</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Library&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Digital archiving and Digital Library System"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2005 the British Library started the <a href="/wiki/UK_Web_Archive" title="UK Web Archive">UK Web Archive</a> project, collecting and preserving websites from the UK. Each time the library collected data, it contacted the website owners for the permission to archive their websites.<sup id="cite_ref-blog_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-blog-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2012 the UK <a href="/wiki/Legal_deposit" title="Legal deposit">legal deposit</a> libraries signed a memorandum of understanding that have allowed the library: to automatically collect all websites<sup id="cite_ref-blog_40-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-blog-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and create a shared technical infrastructure implementing the Digital Library System (DLS) developed by the British Library.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 5 April 2013 the Library announced a project to archive all sites with the suffix <a href="/wiki/.uk" title=".uk">.uk</a> in a bid to preserve the nation's "<a href="/wiki/Digital_memory" class="mw-redirect" title="Digital memory">digital memory</a>" (which as of then amounted to about 4.8 million sites containing 1 billion web pages). The Library made all the material publicly available to users by the end of 2013,<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers"><span title="The date of the event predicted near this tag has passed. (January 2025)">needs update</span></a></i>]</sup> and would ensure that, through technological advancements, all the material is preserved for future generations, despite the fluidity of the Internet.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After UK government passed the "Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations 2013", British Library were able to add an extension to the Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003 to include non-print electronic publications from 6 April 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Four storage nodes locations (in London, <a href="/wiki/Boston_Spa" title="Boston Spa">Boston Spa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Aberystwyth" title="Aberystwyth">Aberystwyth</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a>) are linked via a secure network in constant communication automatically replicate, self-check, and repair data.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A complete <a href="/wiki/Web_crawler" title="Web crawler">crawl</a> of every <a href="/wiki/.uk" title=".uk">.uk</a> domain (and other <a href="/wiki/Top-level_domain" title="Top-level domain">Top-level domains</a>) has been added annually to the DLS since 2013,<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which also contains all of the <a href="/wiki/Internet_Archive" title="Internet Archive">Internet Archive</a>'s 1996–2013 .uk collection. The policy and system is based on that of the <a href="/wiki/Biblioth%C3%A8que_nationale_de_France" title="Bibliothèque nationale de France">Bibliothèque nationale de France</a>, which has crawled the <a href="/wiki/.fr" title=".fr">.fr</a> domain annually since 2006; with the help of the Internet Archive until 2010.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="2023_cyber_attack">2023 cyber attack</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Library&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 2023 cyber attack"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/British_Library_cyberattack" title="British Library cyberattack">British Library cyberattack</a></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><span><video id="mwe_player_0" poster="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/British_Library_Highlights.webm/250px--British_Library_Highlights.webm.jpg" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="250" height="141" data-durationhint="191" data-mwtitle="British_Library_Highlights.webm" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons" resource="/wiki/File:British_Library_Highlights.webm"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a1/British_Library_Highlights.webm/British_Library_Highlights.webm.360p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="360p.vp9.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a1/British_Library_Highlights.webm/British_Library_Highlights.webm.360p.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp8, vorbis"" data-transcodekey="360p.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/British_Library_Highlights.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp8, vorbis"" data-width="640" data-height="360" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a1/British_Library_Highlights.webm/British_Library_Highlights.webm.144p.mjpeg.mov" type="video/quicktime" data-transcodekey="144p.mjpeg.mov" data-width="256" data-height="144" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a1/British_Library_Highlights.webm/British_Library_Highlights.webm.240p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="240p.vp9.webm" data-width="426" data-height="240" /></video></span><figcaption>British Library highlights film, 2014</figcaption></figure> <p>On 28 October 2023 the British Library's entire website went down due to a cyber attack,<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> later confirmed as a <a href="/wiki/Ransomware" title="Ransomware">ransomware</a> attack attributed to ransomware group <a href="/wiki/Rhysida_(hacker_group)" title="Rhysida (hacker group)">Rhysida</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Catalogues and ordering systems were affected, rendering the great majority of the library's collections inaccessible to readers. The library released statements saying that their services would be disrupted for several weeks,<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with some disruption expected to persist for several months.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As at January 2024, the British Library continued to experience technology outages as a result of the cyber-attack.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By October 2024 many of the previously inaccessible services had been restored, including remote item ordering, online learning services and online manuscripts.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Collections">Collections</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Library&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Collections"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:BritishLibraryInterior02.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/BritishLibraryInterior02.jpg/220px-BritishLibraryInterior02.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="134" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/BritishLibraryInterior02.jpg/330px-BritishLibraryInterior02.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/BritishLibraryInterior02.jpg/440px-BritishLibraryInterior02.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1353" data-file-height="822" /></a><figcaption>Interior of the British Library, with the smoked glass wall of the King's Library in the background</figcaption></figure> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Notable_items_of_the_British_Library_collections" class="mw-redirect" title="Notable items of the British Library collections">Notable items of the British Library collections</a></div> <p>The British Library is a <a href="/wiki/Legal_deposit" title="Legal deposit">legal deposit</a> library.<sup id="cite_ref-Legal_Deposit_56-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Legal_Deposit-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In England, legal deposit can be traced back to at least 1610.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Copyright_Act_1911" title="Copyright Act 1911">Copyright Act 1911</a> established the principle of the legal deposit, ensuring that the British Library and five other libraries in Great Britain and Ireland are entitled to receive a free copy of every item published or distributed in Britain. The other five libraries are: the <a href="/wiki/Bodleian_Library" title="Bodleian Library">Bodleian Library</a> at <a href="/wiki/Oxford" title="Oxford">Oxford</a>; the <a href="/wiki/Cambridge_University_Library" title="Cambridge University Library">University Library</a> at <a href="/wiki/Cambridge" title="Cambridge">Cambridge</a>; <a href="/wiki/Trinity_College_Library" class="mw-redirect" title="Trinity College Library">Trinity College Library</a> in <a href="/wiki/Dublin" title="Dublin">Dublin</a>; and the <a href="/wiki/National_Library_of_Scotland" title="National Library of Scotland">National Libraries of Scotland</a> and <a href="/wiki/National_Library_of_Wales" title="National Library of Wales">Wales</a>. The British Library is the only one that must automatically receive a copy of every item published in Britain; the others are entitled to these items, but must specifically request them from the publisher after learning that they have been or are about to be published, a task done centrally by the <a href="/wiki/Agency_for_the_Legal_Deposit_Libraries" title="Agency for the Legal Deposit Libraries">Agency for the Legal Deposit Libraries</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Legal_Deposit_56-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Legal_Deposit-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Under the terms of <a href="/wiki/Irish_copyright_law" class="mw-redirect" title="Irish copyright law">Irish copyright law</a> (most recently the Copyright and Related Rights Act 2000), the British Library is entitled to automatically receive a free copy of every book published in Ireland, alongside the <a href="/wiki/National_Library_of_Ireland" title="National Library of Ireland">National Library of Ireland</a>, Trinity College Library in Dublin, the library of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Limerick" title="University of Limerick">University of Limerick</a>, the library of <a href="/wiki/Dublin_City_University" title="Dublin City University">Dublin City University</a> and the libraries of the four constituent universities of the <a href="/wiki/National_University_of_Ireland" title="National University of Ireland">National University of Ireland</a>. The Bodleian Library, Cambridge University Library, and the National Libraries of Scotland and Wales are also entitled to copies of material published in Ireland, but again must formally make requests.<sup id="cite_ref-Legal_Deposit_56-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Legal_Deposit-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Legal_Deposit_Libraries_Act_2003" title="Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003">Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003</a> extended United Kingdom legal deposit requirements to electronic documents, such as <a href="/wiki/CD-ROM" title="CD-ROM">CD-ROMs</a> and selected websites.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The British Library Document Supply Service (BLDSS) and the Library's Document Supply Collection and its <a href="/wiki/Secure_Electronic_Delivery" title="Secure Electronic Delivery">Secure Electronic Delivery</a> is based at the Library's site in Boston Spa. Collections housed in Yorkshire, comprising low-use material and the newspaper and Document Supply collections, make up around 70% of the total material the library holds.<sup id="cite_ref-SteveMorrisBBC_59-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SteveMorrisBBC-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Library also holds the <a href="/wiki/Asia,_Pacific_and_Africa_Collections" class="mw-redirect" title="Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections">Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections</a> (APAC) which include the <a href="/wiki/India_Office_Records" title="India Office Records">India Office Records</a> and materials in the languages of Asia and of north and north-east Africa.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Manuscripts">Manuscripts</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Library&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Manuscripts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Foundation_collections">Foundation collections</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Library&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Foundation collections"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The three foundation collections are those which were brought together to form the initial manuscript holdings of the British Museum in 1753:<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cotton_manuscripts" class="mw-redirect" title="Cotton manuscripts">Cotton manuscripts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harley_manuscripts" class="mw-redirect" title="Harley manuscripts">Harley manuscripts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hans_Sloane" title="Hans Sloane">Sloane manuscripts</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Other_named_collections">Other named collections</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Library&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Other named collections"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Other "named" collections of manuscripts include (but are not limited to) the following: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arundel_Manuscripts" title="Arundel Manuscripts">Arundel Manuscripts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Egerton_Collection" title="Egerton Collection">Egerton manuscripts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/King%27s_manuscripts,_British_Library" title="King's manuscripts, British Library">King's manuscripts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lansdowne_manuscripts" title="Lansdowne manuscripts">Lansdowne manuscripts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_manuscripts,_British_Library" title="Royal manuscripts, British Library">Royal manuscripts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stefan_Zweig_Collection" title="Stefan Zweig Collection">Stefan Zweig Collection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stowe_manuscripts" title="Stowe manuscripts">Stowe manuscripts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Yates_Thompson" title="Henry Yates Thompson">Yates Thompson</a> manuscripts</li></ul> <p>Other collections, not necessarily manuscripts: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lawrence_Durrell_Collection" title="Lawrence Durrell Collection">Lawrence Durrell Collection</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Additional_manuscripts">Additional manuscripts</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Library&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Additional manuscripts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Additional_manuscripts" title="Additional manuscripts">Additional manuscripts</a></div> <p>The <b>Additional Manuscripts</b> series covers manuscripts that are not part of the named collections, and contains all other manuscripts donated, purchased or bequeathed to the Library since 1756. The numbering begins at 4101, as the series was initially regarded as a continuation of the collection of Sloane manuscripts, which are numbered 1 to 4100.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Newspapers">Newspapers</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Library&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Newspapers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:British_Library_Newspapers.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/British_Library_Newspapers.JPG/220px-British_Library_Newspapers.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/British_Library_Newspapers.JPG/330px-British_Library_Newspapers.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/British_Library_Newspapers.JPG/440px-British_Library_Newspapers.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2272" data-file-height="1704" /></a><figcaption>Former British Library Newspapers building, <a href="/wiki/Colindale" title="Colindale">Colindale</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The Library holds an almost complete collection of British and Irish newspapers since 1840. This is partly because of the legal deposit legislation of 1869, which required newspapers to supply a copy of each edition of a newspaper to the library. London editions of national daily and Sunday newspapers are complete back to 1801. In total, the collection consists of 660,000 bound volumes and 370,000 reels of <a href="/wiki/Microfilm" class="mw-redirect" title="Microfilm">microfilm</a> containing tens of millions of newspapers with 52,000 titles on 45 km (28 mi) of shelves. From earlier dates, the collections include the <a href="/wiki/Thomason_Tracts" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomason Tracts">Thomason Tracts</a>, comprising 7,200 seventeenth-century newspapers,<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the <a href="/wiki/Burney_Collection" class="mw-redirect" title="Burney Collection">Burney Collection</a>, featuring nearly 1 million pages of newspapers from the late 18th and early 19th centuries.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The section also holds extensive collections of non-British newspapers, in numerous languages.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Newspapers section was based in <a href="/wiki/Colindale" title="Colindale">Colindale</a> in North London until 2013, when the buildings, which were considered to provide inadequate storage conditions and to be beyond improvement, were closed and sold for redevelopment.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-faq_67-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-faq-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The physical holdings are now divided between the sites at St Pancras (some high-use periodicals, and rare items such as the Thomason Tracts and Burney collections) and Boston Spa (the bulk of the collections, stored in a new purpose-built facility).<sup id="cite_ref-faq_67-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-faq-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A significant and growing proportion of the collection is now made available to readers as surrogate facsimiles, either on microfilm, or, more recently, in digitised form. In 2010 a ten-year programme of digitisation of the newspaper archives with commercial partner DC Thomson subsidiary <a href="/wiki/Brightsolid" class="mw-redirect" title="Brightsolid">Brightsolid</a> began,<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the <a href="/wiki/British_Newspaper_Archive" title="British Newspaper Archive">British Newspaper Archive</a> was launched in November 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A dedicated newspaper reading room opened at St Pancras in April 2014, including facilities for consulting microfilmed and digital materials, and, where no surrogate exists, hard-copy material retrieved from Boston Spa.<sup id="cite_ref-faq_67-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-faq-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-yorkpress_20140429_71-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-yorkpress_20140429-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Online,_electronic_and_digital_resources"><span id="Online.2C_electronic_and_digital_resources"></span>Online, electronic and digital resources</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Library&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Online, electronic and digital resources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The British Library makes a number of images of items within its collections available online. Its <i>Online Gallery</i> gives access to 30,000 images from various medieval books, together with a handful of exhibition-style items in a proprietary format, such as the <a href="/wiki/Lindisfarne_Gospels" title="Lindisfarne Gospels">Lindisfarne Gospels</a>. This includes the facility to "turn the virtual pages" of a few documents, such as <a href="/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci" title="Leonardo da Vinci">Leonardo da Vinci</a>'s notebooks.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Catalogue entries for many of the <a href="/wiki/Illuminated_manuscript" title="Illuminated manuscript">illuminated manuscript</a> collections are available online, with selected images of pages or miniatures from a growing number of them,<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and there is a database of significant <a href="/wiki/Bookbinding" title="Bookbinding">bookbindings</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The British Library's commercial <a href="/wiki/Secure_electronic_delivery_service" class="mw-redirect" title="Secure electronic delivery service">secure electronic delivery service</a> was started in 2003 at a cost of £6 million. This offers more than 100 million items (including 280,000 journal titles, 50 million patents, 5 million reports, 476,000 US dissertations and 433,000 conference proceedings) for researchers and library patrons worldwide which were previously unavailable outside the Library because of <a href="/wiki/Copyright" title="Copyright">copyright</a> restrictions. In line with a government directive that the British Library must cover a percentage of its operating costs, a fee is charged to the user. However, this service is no longer profitable and has led to a series of restructures to try to prevent further losses.<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When Google Books started, the British Library signed an agreement with <a href="/wiki/Microsoft" title="Microsoft">Microsoft</a> to digitise a number of books from the British Library for its <a href="/wiki/Live_Search_Books" title="Live Search Books">Live Search Books</a> project.<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This material was only available to readers in the US, and closed in May 2008.<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The scanned books are currently available via the British Library catalogue or <a href="/wiki/Amazon.com" class="mw-redirect" title="Amazon.com">Amazon</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In October 2010 the British Library launched its Management and business studies portal. This website is designed to allow digital access to management research reports, consulting reports, working papers and articles.<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In November 2011, four million newspaper pages from the 18th and 19th centuries were made available online as the <a href="/wiki/British_Newspaper_Archive" title="British Newspaper Archive">British Newspaper Archive</a>. The project planned to scan up to 40 million pages over the next 10 years. The archive is free to search, but there is a charge for accessing the pages themselves.<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As of 2022, <i>Explore the British Library</i> is the latest iteration of the online catalogue.<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It contains nearly 57 million records and may be used to search, view and order items from the collections or search the contents of the Library's website. The Library's electronic collections include over 40,000 ejournals, 800 databases and other electronic resources.<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A number of these are available for remote access to registered St Pancras Reader Pass holders.<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>PhD theses are available via the <a href="/wiki/E-Theses_Online_Service" title="E-Theses Online Service">E-Theses Online Service</a> (EThOS).<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Philatelic_collections">Philatelic collections</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Library&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Philatelic collections"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/British_Library_Philatelic_Collections" title="British Library Philatelic Collections">British Library Philatelic Collections</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Philatelic_collections_1110902_1110905.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Philatelic_collections_1110902_1110905.jpg/220px-Philatelic_collections_1110902_1110905.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="79" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Philatelic_collections_1110902_1110905.jpg/330px-Philatelic_collections_1110902_1110905.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Philatelic_collections_1110902_1110905.jpg/440px-Philatelic_collections_1110902_1110905.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6021" data-file-height="2152" /></a><figcaption>Philatelic collections</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:British_Library_Gate_Shadow.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/British_Library_Gate_Shadow.jpg/220px-British_Library_Gate_Shadow.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/British_Library_Gate_Shadow.jpg/330px-British_Library_Gate_Shadow.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/British_Library_Gate_Shadow.jpg/440px-British_Library_Gate_Shadow.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1719" data-file-height="1152" /></a><figcaption>The entrance gate and its shadow (designed by <a href="/wiki/David_Kindersley" title="David Kindersley">David Kindersley</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lida_Lopes_Cardozo_Kindersley" title="Lida Lopes Cardozo Kindersley">Lida Lopes Cardozo Kindersley</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/British_Library_Philatelic_Collections" title="British Library Philatelic Collections">British Library Philatelic Collections</a> are held at St Pancras. The collections were established in 1891 with the donation of the <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Tapling" title="Thomas Tapling">Tapling</a> collection;<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> they steadily developed and now comprise over 25 major collections and a number of smaller ones, encompassing a wide range of disciplines. The collections include <a href="/wiki/Postage_stamp" title="Postage stamp">postage</a> and <a href="/wiki/Revenue_stamp" title="Revenue stamp">revenue stamps</a>, <a href="/wiki/Postal_stationery" title="Postal stationery">postal stationery</a>, <a href="/wiki/Essay_(philately)" title="Essay (philately)">essays</a>, <a href="/wiki/Proofreading" title="Proofreading">proofs</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cover_(philately)" title="Cover (philately)">covers</a> and entries, "<a href="/wiki/Cinderella_stamp" title="Cinderella stamp">cinderella stamp</a>" material, specimen issues, <a href="/wiki/Airmail" title="Airmail">airmails</a>, some <a href="/wiki/Postal_history" title="Postal history">postal history</a> materials, official and private <a href="/wiki/Postal_system" class="mw-redirect" title="Postal system">posts</a>, etc., for almost all countries and periods.<sup id="cite_ref-pocket_87-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pocket-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Approximately 80,000 items on 6,000 sheets may be viewed in 1,000 display frames; 2,400 sheets are from the Tapling Collection. All other material, which covers the whole world, is available to students and researchers.<sup id="cite_ref-pocket_87-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pocket-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Facilities">Facilities</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Library&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Facilities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mechanical_book_handling_system,_British_Library.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Mechanical_book_handling_system%2C_British_Library.jpg/220px-Mechanical_book_handling_system%2C_British_Library.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Mechanical_book_handling_system%2C_British_Library.jpg/330px-Mechanical_book_handling_system%2C_British_Library.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Mechanical_book_handling_system%2C_British_Library.jpg/440px-Mechanical_book_handling_system%2C_British_Library.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3888" data-file-height="2592" /></a><figcaption>The mechanical book handling system (MBHS<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) used to deliver requested books from stores to reading rooms</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sitting_on_History_(1995)_by_Bill_Woodrow,_British_Library,_London,_UK_-_20061031.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Sitting_on_History_%281995%29_by_Bill_Woodrow%2C_British_Library%2C_London%2C_UK_-_20061031.jpg/220px-Sitting_on_History_%281995%29_by_Bill_Woodrow%2C_British_Library%2C_London%2C_UK_-_20061031.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Sitting_on_History_%281995%29_by_Bill_Woodrow%2C_British_Library%2C_London%2C_UK_-_20061031.jpg/330px-Sitting_on_History_%281995%29_by_Bill_Woodrow%2C_British_Library%2C_London%2C_UK_-_20061031.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Sitting_on_History_%281995%29_by_Bill_Woodrow%2C_British_Library%2C_London%2C_UK_-_20061031.jpg/440px-Sitting_on_History_%281995%29_by_Bill_Woodrow%2C_British_Library%2C_London%2C_UK_-_20061031.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption>Bronze sculpture. <a href="/wiki/Bill_Woodrow" title="Bill Woodrow">Bill Woodrow</a>'s 'Sitting on History' was purchased for the British Library by <a href="/wiki/Carl_Djerassi" title="Carl Djerassi">Carl Djerassi</a> and <a href="/wiki/Diane_Middlebrook" title="Diane Middlebrook">Diane Middlebrook</a> in 1997.<br />Sitting on History, with its ball and chain, refers to the book as the captor of information which we cannot escape.<br /><br />The bust visible top left is <a href="/wiki/Colin_St._John_Wilson" class="mw-redirect" title="Colin St. John Wilson">Colin St. John Wilson</a> RA by Celia Scott, 1998 a gift from the American Trust for the British Library. Sir Colin designed the British Library building.</figcaption></figure> <p>The Library is open to everyone who has a genuine need to use its collections. Anyone with a permanent address who wishes to carry out research can apply for a Reader Pass; they are required to provide proof of signature and address.<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Historically, only those wishing to use specialised material unavailable in other public or academic libraries would be given a Reader Pass. The Library has been criticised for admitting numbers of undergraduate students, who have access to their own university libraries, to the reading rooms. The Library replied that it has always admitted undergraduates as long as they have a legitimate personal, work-related or academic research purpose.<sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The majority of catalogue entries can be found on Explore the British Library, the Library's main catalogue, which is based on Primo.<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other collections have their own catalogues, such as western manuscripts. There are eleven reading rooms at the London site and one in Yorkshire.<sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>British Library Reader Pass holders are also able to view the Document Supply Collection in the Reading Room at the Library's site in <a href="/wiki/Boston_Spa" title="Boston Spa">Boston Spa</a> in Yorkshire as well as the hard-copy newspaper collection from 29 September 2014. Now that access is available to legal deposit collection material, it is necessary for visitors to register as a Reader to use the Boston Spa Reading Room.<sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Exhibitions">Exhibitions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Library&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Exhibitions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Newton_by_Eduardo_Paolozzi_2003-03-10.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Newton_by_Eduardo_Paolozzi_2003-03-10.jpg/220px-Newton_by_Eduardo_Paolozzi_2003-03-10.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Newton_by_Eduardo_Paolozzi_2003-03-10.jpg/330px-Newton_by_Eduardo_Paolozzi_2003-03-10.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Newton_by_Eduardo_Paolozzi_2003-03-10.jpg/440px-Newton_by_Eduardo_Paolozzi_2003-03-10.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption>Bronze sculpture on the piazza of <i><a href="/wiki/Newton_(Paolozzi)" title="Newton (Paolozzi)">Newton</a></i>, after <a href="/wiki/William_Blake" title="William Blake">William Blake</a>, by <a href="/wiki/Eduardo_Paolozzi" title="Eduardo Paolozzi">Eduardo Paolozzi</a>, 1995</figcaption></figure> <p>A number of books and <a href="/wiki/Manuscript" title="Manuscript">manuscripts</a> are on display to the public in the Sir John Ritblat Gallery which is open seven days a week at no charge. Some manuscripts in the exhibition include <i><a href="/wiki/Beowulf" title="Beowulf">Beowulf</a></i>, the <a href="/wiki/Lindisfarne_Gospels" title="Lindisfarne Gospels">Lindisfarne Gospels</a> and <a href="/wiki/St_Cuthbert_Gospel" title="St Cuthbert Gospel">St Cuthbert Gospel</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Gutenberg_Bible" title="Gutenberg Bible">Gutenberg Bible</a>, <a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_Chaucer" title="Geoffrey Chaucer">Geoffrey Chaucer</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Canterbury_Tales" class="mw-redirect" title="Canterbury Tales">Canterbury Tales</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Malory" title="Thomas Malory">Thomas Malory</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Le_Morte_d%27Arthur" title="Le Morte d'Arthur">Le Morte d'Arthur</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/King_Arthur" title="King Arthur">King Arthur</a>), <a href="/wiki/Captain_Cook" class="mw-redirect" title="Captain Cook">Captain Cook</a>'s journal, <a href="/wiki/Jane_Austen" title="Jane Austen">Jane Austen</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/The_History_of_England_(Jane_Austen)" class="mw-redirect" title="The History of England (Jane Austen)">History of England</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Charlotte_Bront%C3%AB" title="Charlotte Brontë">Charlotte Brontë</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Jane_Eyre" title="Jane Eyre">Jane Eyre</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Lewis_Carroll" title="Lewis Carroll">Lewis Carroll</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Alice%27s_Adventures_in_Wonderland" title="Alice's Adventures in Wonderland">Alice's Adventures Under Ground</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling" title="Rudyard Kipling">Rudyard Kipling</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Just_So_Stories" title="Just So Stories">Just So Stories</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Charles_Dickens" title="Charles Dickens">Charles Dickens</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Nickleby" title="Nicholas Nickleby">Nicholas Nickleby</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Virginia_Woolf" title="Virginia Woolf">Virginia Woolf</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Mrs_Dalloway" title="Mrs Dalloway">Mrs Dalloway</a></i> and a room devoted solely to <a href="/wiki/Magna_Carta" title="Magna Carta">Magna Carta</a>, as well as several <a href="/wiki/Qur%27an" class="mw-redirect" title="Qur'an">Qur'ans</a> and Asian items.<sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In addition to the permanent exhibition, there are frequent thematic exhibitions which have covered maps,<sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> sacred texts,<sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> history of the English language,<sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and law, including a celebration of the 800th anniversary of <a href="/wiki/Magna_Carta" title="Magna Carta">Magna Carta</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Services_and_departments">Services and departments</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Library&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Services and departments"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Business_and_IP_Centre">Business and IP Centre</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Library&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Business and IP Centre"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In May 2005, the British Library received a grant of £1 million from the <a href="/wiki/London_Development_Agency" title="London Development Agency">London Development Agency</a> to change two of its reading rooms into the Business & IP Centre. The centre was opened in March 2006.<sup id="cite_ref-Chadwick_99-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Chadwick-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It holds a comprehensive collection of business and intellectual property (IP) material and is part of the UK's National Network of Business and IP Centres.<sup id="cite_ref-100" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The collection is divided up into four main information areas: <a href="/wiki/Market_research" title="Market research">market research</a>, company information, trade directories, and <a href="/wiki/Magazine" title="Magazine">journals</a>. It is free of charge in hard copy and online via approximately 30 subscription databases. Registered readers can access the collection and the databases.<sup id="cite_ref-101" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Staff are trained to guide <a href="/wiki/Small_and_medium_enterprise" class="mw-redirect" title="Small and medium enterprise">small and medium enterprises</a> (SME) and entrepreneurs to use the full range of resources.<sup id="cite_ref-bipc_102-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bipc-102"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There are over 50 million patent specifications from 40 countries in a collection dating back to 1855. The collection also includes official gazettes on patents, <a href="/wiki/Trade_marks" class="mw-redirect" title="Trade marks">trade marks</a> and <a href="/wiki/Registered_Design" class="mw-redirect" title="Registered Design">Registered Design</a>; law reports and other material on <a href="/wiki/Litigation" class="mw-redirect" title="Litigation">litigation</a>; and information on <a href="/wiki/Copyright" title="Copyright">copyright</a>. This is available in hard copy and via online databases.<sup id="cite_ref-bipc_102-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bipc-102"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2018, a Human Lending Library service was established in the Business & IP Centre, allowing social entrepreneurs to receive an hour's mentoring from a high-profile business professional.<sup id="cite_ref-103" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This service is run in partnership with Expert Impact.<sup id="cite_ref-104" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-104"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Document_Supply_Service">Document Supply Service</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Library&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Document Supply Service"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As part of its establishment in 1973, the British Library absorbed the National Lending Library for Science and Technology (NLL), based near <a href="/wiki/Boston_Spa" title="Boston Spa">Boston Spa</a> in Yorkshire, which had been established in 1961. Before this, the site had housed a <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> <a href="/wiki/Royal_Ordnance_Factory" title="Royal Ordnance Factory">Royal Ordnance Factory</a>, <a href="/wiki/ROF_Thorp_Arch" title="ROF Thorp Arch">ROF Thorp Arch</a>, which closed in 1957. When the NLL became part of the British Library in 1973 it changed its name to the British Library Lending Division, in 1985 it was renamed as the British Library Document Supply Centre and is now known as the British Library Document Supply Service, often abbreviated as BLDSS.<sup id="cite_ref-105" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>BLDSS now holds 87.5 million items, including 296,000 international journal titles, 400,000 conference proceedings, 3 million <a href="/wiki/Monographs" class="mw-redirect" title="Monographs">monographs</a>, 5 million official publications, and 500,000 UK and North American theses and dissertations. 12.5 million articles in the Document Supply Collection are held electronically and can be downloaded immediately.<sup id="cite_ref-106" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-106"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The collection supports <a href="/wiki/Research_and_development" title="Research and development">research and development</a> in UK, overseas and international industry, particularly in the <a href="/wiki/Pharmaceutical_industry" title="Pharmaceutical industry">pharmaceutical industry</a>. BLDSS also provides material to Higher Education institutions, students and staff and members of the public, who can order items through their <a href="/wiki/Public_library" title="Public library">public library</a> or through the Library's BL Document Supply Service (BLDSS).<sup id="cite_ref-107" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-107"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In April 2013, BLDSS launched its new online ordering and tracking system, which enables customers to search available items, view detailed availability, pricing and delivery time information, place and track orders, and manage account preferences online.<sup id="cite_ref-BLDSS_online_system_108-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BLDSS_online_system-108"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sound_archive">Sound archive</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Library&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Sound archive"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/British_Library_Sound_Archive" title="British Library Sound Archive">British Library Sound Archive</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:BL_Sound_Archive_tapes-2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/BL_Sound_Archive_tapes-2.jpg/220px-BL_Sound_Archive_tapes-2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="176" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/BL_Sound_Archive_tapes-2.jpg/330px-BL_Sound_Archive_tapes-2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/BL_Sound_Archive_tapes-2.jpg/440px-BL_Sound_Archive_tapes-2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption>Tape players used in the British Library Sound Archives, 2009 photo</figcaption></figure> <p>The British Library Sound Archive holds more than a million discs and 185,000 tapes.<sup id="cite_ref-BBC20060925_109-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBC20060925-109"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The collections come from all over the world and cover the entire range of recorded sound, from music, drama and literature to oral history and wildlife sounds, stretching back over more than 100 years.<sup id="cite_ref-110" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-110"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>It is possible to listen to recordings from the collection in selected Reading Rooms in the Library through their <i>SoundServer</i><sup id="cite_ref-111" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-111"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <i>Listening and Viewing Service</i>, which is based in the Rare Books & Music Reading Room.<sup id="cite_ref-112" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-112"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2006, the Library launched a new online resource, <a href="/wiki/British_Library_Sounds" title="British Library Sounds">British Library Sounds</a>, which makes 50,000 of the Sound Archive's recordings available online.<sup id="cite_ref-113" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-113"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-114" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-114"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Moving_image_services">Moving image services</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Library&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Moving image services"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Launched in October 2012, the British Library's moving image services provide access to nearly a million sound and moving image items onsite, supported by data for over 20 million sound and moving image recordings.<sup id="cite_ref-115" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-115"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>114<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The three services, which for copyright reasons can only be accessed from terminals within the Reading Rooms at St Pancras or Boston Spa, are: </p> <ul><li>BBC Pilot/<a href="/wiki/BBC_Redux" title="BBC Redux">Redux</a>: A collaboration with <a href="/wiki/BBC_Research_%26_Development" title="BBC Research & Development">BBC Research & Development</a> to mirror its archive which has, since June 2007, been recording 24/7 of all of the BBC's national and some regional broadcast output. BBC Pilot includes 2.2 million catalogue records and 225,000 playable programmes, but unlike BBC Redux it does not include any broadcasts beyond 2011.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> BBC Redux ceased operations in 2022.<sup id="cite_ref-116" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-116"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>115<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Broadcast News: Since May 2010, the British Library has been making off-air recordings of daily TV and radio news broadcasts from seventeen channels, including BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Sky News, Al-Jazeera English, NHK World, CNN, France 24, Bloomberg, Russia Today and China's CCTV News. Many of the programs come with subtitles, which can be electronically searched, greatly enhancing the value of the collection as a research tool.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li>Television & Radio Index for Learning & Teaching (TRILT): Produced by the British Universities Film & Video Council (<a href="/wiki/BUFVC" class="mw-redirect" title="BUFVC">BUFVC</a>), TRILT is a database of all UK television and radio broadcasts since 2001 (and selectively back to 1995). Its 16 million records, growing by a million per year, cover every channel, broadcast and repeat.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other_projects">Other projects</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Library&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Other projects"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The British Library sponsors or co-sponsors many projects of national and international significance. These include: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/International_Dunhuang_Project" title="International Dunhuang Project">International Dunhuang Project</a><sup id="cite_ref-Spec_cats_117-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Spec_cats-117"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>116<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theatre_Archive_Project" title="Theatre Archive Project">Theatre Archive Project</a><sup id="cite_ref-118" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-118"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>117<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Incunabula_Short_Title_Catalogue" title="Incunabula Short Title Catalogue">Incunabula Short Title Catalogue</a><sup id="cite_ref-Spec_cats_117-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Spec_cats-117"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>116<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/DataCite" title="DataCite">DataCite</a>, an international <a href="/wiki/Not-for-profit" class="mw-redirect" title="Not-for-profit">not-for-profit</a> organisation which aims to improve <a href="/wiki/Data_citation" class="mw-redirect" title="Data citation">data citation</a><sup id="cite_ref-119" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-119"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>118<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Endangered_Archives_Programme" title="Endangered Archives Programme">Endangered Archives Programme</a><sup id="cite_ref-120" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-120"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>119<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Chief_executives_and_other_employees">Chief executives and other employees</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Library&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Chief executives and other employees"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main category: <a href="/wiki/Category:Employees_of_the_British_Library" title="Category:Employees of the British Library">Employees of the British Library</a></div> <p>British Library employees undertake a wide variety of roles including curatorial, business and technology. Curatorial roles include or have included librarians, curators, digital preservationists, archivists and keepers.<sup id="cite_ref-121" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-121"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>120<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2001 the senior management team was established and consisted of Lynne Brindley (chief executive), Ian Millar (director of finance and corporate resources), Natalie Ceeney (director of operations and services), Jill Finney (director of strategic marketing and communications) and Clive Field (director of scholarship and collections). This was so the problems of a complex structure, a mega hybrid library, global brand and investment in digital preservation could be managed better<sup id="cite_ref-122" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-122"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>121<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Chief_Executives">Chief Executives</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Library&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Chief Executives"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>1973–1984: Sir <a href="/wiki/Harry_Hookway" title="Harry Hookway">Harry Hookway</a>, first Chief Executive<sup id="cite_ref-123" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-123"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>122<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-124" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-124"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>123<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1984–1991: Kenneth Cooper<sup id="cite_ref-125" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-125"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>124<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1991–2000: Dr <a href="/wiki/Brian_Lang" title="Brian Lang">Brian Lang</a><sup id="cite_ref-126" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-126"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>125<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2000–2012: Dame <a href="/wiki/Lynne_Brindley" title="Lynne Brindley">Lynne Brindley</a><sup id="cite_ref-127" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-127"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>126<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2012–2025: Sir <a href="/wiki/Roly_Keating" title="Roly Keating">Roly Keating</a><sup id="cite_ref-128" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-128"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>127<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-bl_129-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bl-129"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>128<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>From 2025: <a href="/wiki/Rebecca_Lawrence" title="Rebecca Lawrence">Rebecca Lawrence</a><sup id="cite_ref-bl_129-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bl-129"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>128<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Chief_Librarians">Chief Librarians</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Library&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Chief Librarians"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>2016–2018: <a href="/wiki/Caroline_Brazier_(librarian)" title="Caroline Brazier (librarian)">Caroline Brazier</a>, first Chief Librarian, worked at the library 2002–2018<sup id="cite_ref-130" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-130"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>129<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2018–present: <a href="/wiki/Liz_Jolly" title="Liz Jolly">Liz Jolly</a><sup id="cite_ref-131" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-131"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>130<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Library&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/British_Library_of_Political_and_Economic_Science" title="British Library of Political and Economic Science">British Library of Political and Economic Science</a>, the main library of the LSE</li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_literature" title="British literature">British literature</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Books_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Books in the United Kingdom">Books in the United Kingdom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_National_Archives_(United_Kingdom)" title="The National Archives (United Kingdom)">The National Archives (United Kingdom)</a>, an amalgamation of the <a href="/wiki/Public_Record_Office" title="Public Record Office">Public Record Office</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Historical_Manuscripts_Commission" class="mw-redirect" title="Historical Manuscripts Commission">Historical Manuscripts Commission</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Office_of_Public_Sector_Information" title="Office of Public Sector Information">Office of Public Sector Information</a> and <a href="/wiki/Her_Majesty%27s_Stationery_Office" class="mw-redirect" title="Her Majesty's Stationery Office">Her Majesty's Stationery Office</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Library&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Notes">Notes</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Library&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">£10,000 in 1822 is approximately equivalent to £1,934,890 in 2023, according to calculations based on <a href="/wiki/Consumer_Price_Index_(United_Kingdom)" title="Consumer Price Index (United Kingdom)">Consumer Price Index</a> measure of inflation.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span 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New York: Harry N. Abrams <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8109-1653-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-8109-1653-3">0-8109-1653-3</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alan_Day" title="Alan Day">Day, Alan</a> (1998). <i>Inside the British Library</i>. London: <a href="/wiki/Library_Association" class="mw-redirect" title="Library Association">Library Association</a>. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1856042804" title="Special:BookSources/1856042804">1856042804</a>.</li> <li>Francis, Sir Frank, ed. (1971) <i>Treasures of the British Museum</i>. 360 pp. London: Thames & Hudson; ch. 6: manuscripts, by T. S, Patties; ch. 9: oriental printed books and manuscripts, by A. Gaur; ch. 12: printed books, by H. M. Nixon</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phil_Harris" title="Phil Harris">Harris, Phil</a> (1998). <i>A History of the British Museum Library, 1753–1973</i>. London: British Library. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0712345620" title="Special:BookSources/0712345620">0712345620</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philip_Howard_(journalist)" title="Philip Howard (journalist)">Howard, Philip</a> (2008). <i>The British Library, a Treasure of Knowledge</i>. London: Scala. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1857593754" title="Special:BookSources/978-1857593754">978-1857593754</a>.</li> <li>Leapman, Michael (2012). <i>The Book of the British Library</i>. London: British Library. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0712358378" title="Special:BookSources/978-0712358378">978-0712358378</a>.</li> <li>Mandelbrote, Giles, and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Barry_Taylor_(editor)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Barry Taylor (editor) (page does not exist)">Barry Taylor</a> (2009). <i>Libraries Within the Library: The Origins of the British Library's Printed Collections</i>. London: British Library. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0712350358" title="Special:BookSources/978-0712350358">978-0712350358</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Proctor_(bibliographer)" title="Robert Proctor (bibliographer)">Proctor, Robert</a> (2010). <i>A Critical Edition of the Private Diaries of Robert Proctor: The Life of a Librarian at the British Museum</i>, edited by J. H. Bowman. Lewiston, New York: <a href="/wiki/Edwin_Mellen_Press" title="Edwin Mellen Press">Edwin Mellen Press</a>. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0773436340" title="Special:BookSources/0773436340">0773436340</a>.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFRitchie1997" class="citation book cs1">Ritchie, Berry (1997). <i>The Good Builder: The John Laing Story</i>. James & James. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1848845589" title="Special:BookSources/978-1848845589"><bdi>978-1848845589</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Good+Builder%3A+The+John+Laing+Story&rft.pub=James+%26+James&rft.date=1997&rft.isbn=978-1848845589&rft.aulast=Ritchie&rft.aufirst=Berry&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABritish+Library" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colin_St._John_Wilson" class="mw-redirect" title="Colin St. John Wilson">Wilson, Colin St. John</a> (1998). <i>The Design and Construction of the British Library</i>. London: British Library. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0712306587" title="Special:BookSources/0712306587">0712306587</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Library&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="official-website"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bl.uk">Official website</a></span></span> <span class="mw-valign-text-top" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23308#P856" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" 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Collection">Bailey Collection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blackburn_Collection" title="Blackburn Collection">Blackburn Collection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bojanowicz_Collection" title="Bojanowicz Collection">Bojanowicz Collection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Booth_Papers" title="Booth Papers">Booth Papers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burnett_Collection" title="Burnett Collection">Burnett Collection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Campbell-Johnston_Collection" title="Campbell-Johnston Collection">Campbell-Johnston Collection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chismon_Collection" title="Chismon Collection">Chismon Collection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chinchen_Collection" title="Chinchen Collection">Chinchen Collection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Contributions_Agency_Collection" title="Contributions Agency Collection">Contributions Agency Collection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crawford_Library" title="Crawford Library">Crawford Library</a></li> <li><a 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Customs and Excise Collection">H.M. Customs and Excise Collection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/H.M._Stationery_Office_Collection" title="H.M. Stationery Office Collection">H.M. Stationery Office Collection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harrison_Collection" title="Harrison Collection">Harrison Collection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harrison_%26_Sons_Collection" title="Harrison & Sons Collection">Harrison & Sons Collection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heys_Collection" title="Heys Collection">Heys Collection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Imperial_War_Museum_stamp_collection" title="Imperial War Museum stamp collection">Imperial War Museum stamp collection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Board_of_Inland_Revenue_Stamping_Department_Archive" title="Board of Inland Revenue Stamping Department Archive">Inland Revenue Stamping Archive</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johnson_Collection" title="Johnson Collection">Johnson Collection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kaluski_Collection" title="Kaluski Collection">Kaluski Collection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kay_Collection" title="Kay Collection">Kay Collection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Langmead_Collection" title="Langmead Collection">Langmead Collection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Landmark_Trust_Lundy_Island_Philatelic_Archive" title="Landmark Trust Lundy Island Philatelic Archive">Landmark Trust Lundy Archive</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McInroy_Collection" title="McInroy Collection">McInroy Collection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Model_Collection" title="Model Collection">Model Collection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monks_Collection" title="Monks Collection">Monks Collection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mosely_Collection" title="Mosely Collection">Mosely Collection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muraleetharan_Papers" title="Muraleetharan Papers">Muraleetharan Papers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Murray_Collection" title="Murray Collection">Murray Collection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_Library_Philatelic_Department_Photograph_Collection" title="British Library Philatelic Department Photograph Collection">Photograph Collection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Postal_Authority_Pre-Issue_Publicity_Collection" title="Postal Authority Pre-Issue Publicity Collection">Postal Authority Publicity Collection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Philatelic_Society_London_Meeting_Handouts_Collection" title="Royal Philatelic Society London Meeting Handouts Collection">R.P.S.L. Handouts Collection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Row_Collection" title="Row Collection">Row Collection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ryan_Collection" title="Ryan Collection">Ryan Collection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seymour_Collection" title="Seymour Collection">Seymour Collection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scott_Collection" title="Scott Collection">Scott Collection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shelley_Collection" title="Shelley Collection">Shelley Collection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sherborn_Collection" title="Sherborn Collection">Sherborn Collection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smith_Collection" title="Smith Collection">Smith Collection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Supplementary_Collection_of_the_British_Library_Philatelic_Department" title="Supplementary Collection of the British Library Philatelic Department">Supplementary Collection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tapling_Collection" title="Tapling Collection">Tapling Collection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treasury_Excise_Correspondence" class="mw-redirect" title="Treasury Excise Correspondence">Treasury Excise Correspondence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turner_Collection_of_Forgeries" title="Turner Collection of Forgeries">Turner Collection of Forgeries</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turner_Collection_of_Newspaper_Tax_Stamps" title="Turner Collection of Newspaper Tax Stamps">Turner Collection of Newspaper Tax Stamps</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turner_Collection_of_Railway_Letter_Stamps" title="Turner Collection of Railway Letter Stamps">Turner Collection of Railway Letter Stamps</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Universal_Postal_Union_Collection" title="Universal Postal Union Collection">U.P.U. 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class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bookbindings_in_the_British_Library" title="Bookbindings in the British Library">Bookbindings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Employees_of_the_British_Library" title="Category:Employees of the British Library">Employees</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Friends_of_the_British_Library" title="Friends of the British Library">Friends</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Panizzi_Lectures" title="Panizzi Lectures">Panizzi Lectures</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Preservation_Office" class="mw-redirect" title="National Preservation Office">Preservation Office</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_Museum_Reading_Room" title="British Museum Reading Room">Reading Room</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_Library_Sounds" title="British Library Sounds">Sounds</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td 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style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">National</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">British Library</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_Museum" title="British Museum">British Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Imperial_War_Museum" title="Imperial War Museum">Imperial War Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Gallery" title="National Gallery">National Gallery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Poetry_Library" title="National Poetry Library">National Poetry Library</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Natural_History_Museum,_London" title="Natural History Museum, London">Natural History Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parliamentary_Archives" title="Parliamentary Archives">Parliamentary Archives</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Science_Museum,_London" title="Science Museum, London"> Science Museum</a> (<a href="/wiki/Dana_Research_Centre_and_Library" title="Dana Research Centre and Library">Dana Research Centre and Library</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_National_Archives_(United_Kingdom)" title="The National Archives (United Kingdom)">The National Archives</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Victoria_and_Albert_Museum" title="Victoria and Albert Museum">Victoria and Albert Museum</a> (<a href="/wiki/National_Art_Library" title="National Art Library">National Art Library</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/London_boroughs" title="London boroughs">Council</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/London_Borough_of_Barking_and_Dagenham" title="London Borough of Barking and Dagenham">Barking and Dagenham</a> (<a href="/wiki/Valence_House_Museum" title="Valence House Museum">Valence House Museum</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_Borough_of_Barnet" title="London Borough of Barnet">Barnet</a> (<a href="/wiki/East_Finchley_Library" title="East Finchley Library">East Finchley Library</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_Borough_of_Brent" title="London Borough of Brent">Brent</a> (<a href="/wiki/Kensal_Rise_Library" title="Kensal Rise Library">Kensal Rise Library</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Library_at_Willesden_Green" title="The Library at Willesden Green">The Library at Willesden Green</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/City_of_London" title="City of London">City of London</a> (Artizan Street Library, <a href="/wiki/Barbican_Library" title="Barbican Library">Barbican Library</a>, <a href="/wiki/Guildhall_Library" title="Guildhall Library">Guildhall Library</a>, <a href="/wiki/London_Metropolitan_Archives" class="mw-redirect" title="London Metropolitan Archives">London Metropolitan Archives</a>, Shoe Lane Library)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/City_of_Westminster" title="City of Westminster">City of Westminster</a> (<a href="/wiki/Westminster_Reference_Library" title="Westminster Reference Library">Westminster Reference Library</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_Borough_of_Camden" title="London Borough of Camden">Camden</a> (<a href="/wiki/Swiss_Cottage_Library" title="Swiss Cottage Library">Swiss Cottage Library</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_Borough_of_Croydon" title="London Borough of Croydon">Croydon</a> (<a href="/wiki/Ashburton_Learning_Village" title="Ashburton Learning Village">Ashburton Library</a>, <a href="/wiki/Croydon_Central_Library" title="Croydon Central Library">Croydon Central Library</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_Addington_Library" title="New Addington Library">New Addington Library</a>, <a href="/wiki/South_Norwood_Library" title="South Norwood Library">South Norwood Library</a>, <a href="/wiki/Upper_Norwood_Library" title="Upper Norwood Library">Upper Norwood Library</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_Borough_of_Haringey" title="London Borough of Haringey">Haringey</a> (<a href="/wiki/Muswell_Hill_Library" title="Muswell Hill Library">Muswell Hill Library</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_Borough_of_Hillingdon" title="London Borough of Hillingdon">Hillingdon</a> (<a href="/wiki/Manor_Farm,_Ruislip" title="Manor Farm, Ruislip">Manor Farm</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_Borough_of_Islington" title="London Borough of Islington">Islington</a> (Finsbury Library, <a href="/wiki/Islington_Local_History_Centre" title="Islington Local History Centre">Islington Local History Centre</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Borough_of_Kensington_and_Chelsea" title="Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea">Kensington and Chelsea</a> (<a href="/wiki/Kensington_Central_Library" title="Kensington Central Library">Kensington Central Library</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_Borough_of_Lambeth" title="London Borough of Lambeth">Lambeth</a> (<a href="/wiki/Brixton_Library" title="Brixton Library">Brixton Library</a>, <a href="/wiki/Carnegie_Library,_Herne_Hill" title="Carnegie Library, Herne Hill">Carnegie Library</a>, <a href="/wiki/Durning_Library" title="Durning Library">Durning Library</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lambeth_Archives" title="Lambeth Archives">Lambeth Archives</a>, <a href="/wiki/Minet_Library" title="Minet Library">Minet Library</a>, <a href="/wiki/Streatham_Library" title="Streatham Library">Streatham Library</a>, <a href="/wiki/Upper_Norwood_Library" title="Upper Norwood Library">Upper Norwood Library</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_Borough_of_Merton" title="London Borough of Merton">Merton</a> (<a href="/wiki/Mitcham_Library" title="Mitcham Library">Mitcham Library</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_Borough_of_Southwark" title="London Borough of Southwark">Southwark</a> (<a href="/wiki/Dulwich_Library" title="Dulwich Library">Dulwich Library</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Harvard_Library" title="John Harvard Library">John Harvard Library</a>, <a href="/wiki/Peckham_Library" title="Peckham Library">Peckham Library</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_Borough_of_Tower_Hamlets" title="London Borough of Tower Hamlets">Tower Hamlets</a> (<a href="/wiki/Idea_Store" title="Idea Store">Idea Store</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_Borough_of_Wandsworth" title="London Borough of Wandsworth">Wandsworth</a> (<a href="/wiki/Battersea_Central_Library" title="Battersea Central Library">Battersea Central Library</a>, <a href="/wiki/Putney_Library" title="Putney Library">Putney Library</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other libraries<br />and archives</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Academic</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Imperial_College" class="mw-redirect" title="Imperial College">Imperial College</a> (<a href="/wiki/Imperial_College_London_Abdus_Salam_Library" class="mw-redirect" title="Imperial College London Abdus Salam Library">Abdus Salam Library</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/King%27s_College_London" title="King's College London">King's College London</a> (<a href="/wiki/Maughan_Library" title="Maughan Library">Maughan Library</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_School_of_Economics" title="London School of Economics">London School of Economics</a> (<a href="/wiki/British_Library_of_Political_and_Economic_Science" title="British Library of Political and Economic Science">British Library of Political and Economic Science</a>, <a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Library" title="Women's Library">Women's Library</a>, <a href="/wiki/LSE_Shaw_Library" title="LSE Shaw Library">Shaw Library</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/University_of_the_Arts_London" title="University of the Arts London">University of the Arts London</a> (<a href="/wiki/Stanley_Kubrick_Archive" title="Stanley Kubrick Archive">Stanley Kubrick Archive</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/University_of_London" title="University of London">University of London</a> (<a href="/wiki/Senate_House_Libraries" title="Senate House Libraries">Senate House Libraries</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Charitable</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bishopsgate_Library" title="Bishopsgate Library">Bishopsgate Library</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Feminist_Library" title="Feminist Library">Feminist Library</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Skaryna_Belarusian_Library_and_Museum" title="Francis Skaryna Belarusian Library and Museum">Francis Skaryna Belarusian Library and Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Library_for_Iranian_Studies_(London)" class="mw-redirect" title="Library for Iranian Studies (London)">Library for Iranian Studies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marx_Memorial_Library" title="Marx Memorial Library">Marx Memorial Library</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polish_Institute_and_Sikorski_Museum" title="Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum">Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wellcome_Library" title="Wellcome Library">Wellcome Library</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wiener_Library_for_the_Study_of_the_Holocaust_and_Genocide" class="mw-redirect" title="Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide">Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Informal</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/56a_Infoshop" title="56a Infoshop">56a Infoshop</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_Action_Resource_Centre" title="London Action Resource Centre">London Action Resource Centre</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Private</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_England" title="Church of England">Church of England</a> (<a href="/wiki/Lambeth_Palace" title="Lambeth Palace">Lambeth Palace Library</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dr_Williams%27s_Library" title="Dr Williams's Library">Dr Williams's Library</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Evangelical_Library" title="Evangelical Library">Evangelical Library</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_Library" title="London Library">London Library</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Parliament of the United Kingdom">UK Parliament</a> (<a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons_Library" title="House of Commons Library">House of Commons Library</a>, <a href="/wiki/House_of_Lords_Library" title="House of Lords Library">House of Lords Library</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Former libraries<br />and archives</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/British_War_Library" title="British War Library">British War Library</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cotton_library" title="Cotton library">Cotton library</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grosvenor_Gallery_Library" title="Grosvenor Gallery Library">Grosvenor Gallery Library</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Limehouse_Library" title="Limehouse Library">Limehouse Library</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Hookham" title="Thomas Hookham">Thomas Hookham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Woodlands_House" title="Woodlands House">Woodlands House</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235" /></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="National_libraries_of_Europe149" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231" /><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:National_libraries_of_Europe" title="Template:National libraries of Europe"><abbr 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National Library">Andorra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Library_of_Armenia" title="National Library of Armenia">Armenia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Austrian_National_Library" title="Austrian National Library">Austria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Library_of_Azerbaijan" title="National Library of Azerbaijan">Azerbaijan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Library_of_Belarus" title="National Library of Belarus">Belarus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Library_of_Belgium" title="Royal Library of Belgium">Belgium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_and_University_Library_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina" title="National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina">Bosnia and Herzegovina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SS._Cyril_and_Methodius_National_Library" title="SS. Cyril and Methodius National Library">Bulgaria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_and_University_Library_in_Zagreb" title="National and University Library in Zagreb">Croatia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cyprus_Library" title="Cyprus Library">Cyprus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Library_of_the_Czech_Republic" title="National Library of the Czech Republic">Czech Republic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Library,_Denmark" title="Royal Library, Denmark">Denmark</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Library_of_Estonia" title="National Library of Estonia">Estonia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Library_of_Finland" title="National Library of Finland">Finland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Biblioth%C3%A8que_nationale_de_France" title="Bibliothèque nationale de France">France</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Parliamentary_Library_of_Georgia" title="National Parliamentary Library of Georgia">Georgia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/German_National_Library" title="German National 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style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: left;background-color: #eee;"><a href="/wiki/Category:Cinemas_in_London" title="Category:Cinemas in London">Cinemas</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/BFI_IMAX" title="BFI IMAX">BFI IMAX</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Empire,_Leicester_Square" class="mw-redirect" title="Empire, Leicester Square">Empire, Leicester Square</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Odeon_Luxe_Leicester_Square" title="Odeon Luxe Leicester Square">Odeon Luxe Leicester Square</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: left;background-color: #eee;">Football stadia</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wembley_Stadium" title="Wembley Stadium">Wembley Stadium</a> (national stadium)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brentford_Community_Stadium" title="Brentford Community Stadium">Brentford Community Stadium</a> (Brentford)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brisbane_Road" title="Brisbane Road">Brisbane Road</a> (Leyton Orient)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Craven_Cottage" title="Craven Cottage">Craven Cottage</a> (Fulham)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Den" title="The Den">The Den</a> (Millwall)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emirates_Stadium" title="Emirates Stadium">Emirates Stadium</a> (Arsenal)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Loftus_Road" title="Loftus Road">Loftus Road</a> (Queens Park Rangers)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_Stadium" title="London Stadium">London Stadium</a> (West Ham United)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plough_Lane" title="Plough Lane">Plough Lane</a> (AFC Wimbledon)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Selhurst_Park" title="Selhurst Park">Selhurst Park</a> (Crystal Palace)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stamford_Bridge_(stadium)" title="Stamford Bridge (stadium)">Stamford Bridge</a> (Chelsea)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Valley_(London)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Valley (London)">The Valley</a> (Charlton Athletic)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tottenham_Hotspur_Stadium" title="Tottenham Hotspur Stadium">Tottenham Hotspur Stadium</a> (Tottenham Hotspur)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: left;background-color: #eee;"><a href="/wiki/Category:Sports_venues_in_London" title="Category:Sports venues in London">Other major<br />sports venues</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/All_England_Lawn_Tennis_and_Croquet_Club" title="All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club">All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Championship_Course" title="The Championship Course">The Championship Course</a> (rowing)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crystal_Palace_National_Sports_Centre" title="Crystal Palace National Sports Centre">Crystal Palace National Sports Centre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lord%27s" title="Lord's">Lord's</a> (cricket)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth_Olympic_Park" title="Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park">Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Oval" title="The Oval">The Oval</a> (cricket)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Twickenham_Stadium" title="Twickenham Stadium">Twickenham Stadium</a> (rugby)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: left;background-color: #eee;"><a href="/wiki/Template:Theatres_in_London" title="Template:Theatres in London">Theatres</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adelphi_Theatre" title="Adelphi Theatre">Adelphi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apollo_Victoria_Theatre" title="Apollo Victoria Theatre">Apollo Victoria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_Coliseum" title="London Coliseum">Coliseum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Criterion_Theatre" title="Criterion Theatre">Criterion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dominion_Theatre" title="Dominion Theatre">Dominion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lyceum_Theatre,_London" title="Lyceum Theatre, London">Lyceum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Old_Vic" title="The Old Vic">Old Vic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_Palladium" title="London Palladium">Palladium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_National_Theatre" title="Royal National Theatre">Royal National Theatre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Opera_House" title="Royal Opera House">Royal Opera House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare%27s_Globe" title="Shakespeare's Globe">Shakespeare's Globe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theatre_Royal,_Drury_Lane" title="Theatre Royal, Drury Lane">Theatre Royal, Drury Lane</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theatre_Royal_Haymarket" title="Theatre Royal Haymarket">Theatre Royal Haymarket</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vaudeville_Theatre" title="Vaudeville Theatre">Vaudeville</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: left;background-color: #eee;">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alexandra_Palace" title="Alexandra Palace">Alexandra Palace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brixton_Academy" title="Brixton Academy">Brixton Academy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/ExCeL_London" title="ExCeL London">ExCeL</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hammersmith_Apollo" title="Hammersmith Apollo">Hammersmith Apollo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_O2_Arena" title="The O2 Arena">The O2 Arena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Albert_Hall" title="Royal Albert Hall">Royal Albert Hall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Festival_Hall" title="Royal Festival Hall">Royal Festival Hall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wembley_Arena" title="Wembley Arena">Wembley Arena</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6em;text-align: left;background-color: #eee;">Government</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/10_Downing_Street" title="10 Downing Street">10 Downing Street</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Admiralty_Arch" title="Admiralty Arch">Admiralty Arch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bank_of_England" title="Bank of England">Bank of England</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/City_Hall,_London_(Southwark)" title="City Hall, London (Southwark)">City Hall (Southwark)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/City_Hall,_London_(Newham)" title="City Hall, London (Newham)">City Hall (Newham)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/County_Hall,_London" title="County Hall, London">County Hall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guildhall,_London" title="Guildhall, London">Guildhall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horse_Guards_(building)" title="Horse Guards (building)">Horse Guards</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mansion_House,_London" title="Mansion House, London">Mansion House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_National_Archives_(United_Kingdom)" title="The National Archives (United Kingdom)">The National Archives</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_Bailey" title="Old Bailey">Old Bailey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palace_of_Westminster" title="Palace of Westminster">Palace of Westminster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Courts_of_Justice" title="Royal Courts of Justice">Royal Courts of Justice</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scotland_Yard" title="Scotland Yard">Scotland Yard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SIS_Building" title="SIS Building">SIS Building</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thames_House" title="Thames House">Thames House</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6em;text-align: left;background-color: #eee;"><a href="/wiki/Category:Museums_in_London" title="Category:Museums in London">Museums</a> and<br /><a href="/wiki/Category:Art_museums_and_galleries_in_London" title="Category:Art museums and galleries in London">galleries</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/British_Museum" title="British Museum">British Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Churchill_War_Rooms" title="Churchill War Rooms">Churchill War Rooms</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Courtauld_Gallery" title="Courtauld Gallery">Courtauld Gallery</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Cutty_Sark" title="Cutty Sark">Cutty Sark</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Golden_Hinde_(1973)" title="Golden Hinde (1973)"><i>Golden Hinde</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guildhall_Art_Gallery" title="Guildhall Art Gallery">Guildhall Art Gallery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Belfast" title="HMS Belfast">HMS <i>Belfast</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Imperial_War_Museum" title="Imperial War Museum">Imperial War Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_Canal_Museum" title="London Canal Museum">London Canal Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_Museum" title="London Museum">London Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_Museum_Docklands" title="London Museum Docklands">London Museum Docklands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_Museum_of_Water_%26_Steam" title="London Museum of Water & Steam">London Museum of Water & Steam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madame_Tussauds" title="Madame Tussauds">Madame Tussauds</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Gallery" title="National Gallery">National Gallery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Maritime_Museum" title="National Maritime Museum">National Maritime Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Portrait_Gallery,_London" title="National Portrait Gallery, London">National Portrait Gallery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Natural_History_Museum,_London" title="Natural History Museum, London">Natural History Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Academy_of_Arts" title="Royal Academy of Arts">Royal Academy of Arts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Observatory,_Greenwich" title="Royal Observatory, Greenwich">Royal Observatory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Science_Museum,_London" title="Science Museum, London">Science Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tate_Britain" title="Tate Britain">Tate Britain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tate_Modern" title="Tate Modern">Tate Modern</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tower_of_London" title="Tower of London">Tower of London</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Victoria_and_Albert_Museum" title="Victoria and Albert Museum">Victoria and Albert Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wallace_Collection" title="Wallace Collection">Wallace Collection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Young_V%26A" title="Young V&A">Young V&A</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6em;text-align: left;background-color: #eee;"><a href="/wiki/Category:Religious_buildings_and_structures_in_London" title="Category:Religious buildings and structures in London">Places of worship</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/All_Hallows-by-the-Tower" title="All Hallows-by-the-Tower">All Hallows-by-the-Tower</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BAPS_Shri_Swaminarayan_Mandir_London" title="BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir London">BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bevis_Marks_Synagogue" title="Bevis Marks Synagogue">Bevis Marks Synagogue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Methodist_Central_Hall,_Westminster" title="Methodist Central Hall, Westminster">Methodist Central Hall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_Central_Mosque" title="London Central Mosque">Regent's Park Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Clement_Danes" title="St Clement Danes">St Clement Danes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Margaret%27s,_Westminster" title="St Margaret's, Westminster">St Margaret's, Westminster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Martin-in-the-Fields" title="St Martin-in-the-Fields">St Martin-in-the-Fields</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Mary-le-Bow" title="St Mary-le-Bow">St Mary-le-Bow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Paul%27s_Cathedral" title="St Paul's Cathedral">St Paul's Cathedral</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southwark_Cathedral" title="Southwark Cathedral">Southwark Cathedral</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Westminster_Abbey" title="Westminster Abbey">Westminster Abbey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Westminster_Cathedral" title="Westminster Cathedral">Westminster Cathedral</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6em;text-align: left;background-color: #eee;">Retailing</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: left;background-color: #eee;"><a href="/wiki/Category:Shops_in_London" title="Category:Shops in London">Shops</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fortnum_%26_Mason" title="Fortnum & Mason">Fortnum & Mason</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hamleys" title="Hamleys">Hamleys</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harrods" title="Harrods">Harrods</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harvey_Nichols" title="Harvey Nichols">Harvey Nichols</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hatchards" title="Hatchards">Hatchards</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liberty_(department_store)" title="Liberty (department store)">Liberty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Jones_(department_store)" title="Peter Jones (department store)">Peter Jones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Selfridges,_Oxford_Street" class="mw-redirect" title="Selfridges, Oxford Street">Selfridges</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: left;background-color: #eee;"><a href="/wiki/Category:Shopping_centres_in_London" title="Category:Shopping centres in London">Shopping centres</a><br />and markets</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Borough_Market" title="Borough Market">Borough Market</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brent_Cross_Shopping_Centre" title="Brent Cross Shopping Centre">Brent Cross</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burlington_Arcade" title="Burlington Arcade">Burlington Arcade</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Camden_Market" title="Camden Market">Camden Market</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kensington_Arcade" title="Kensington Arcade">Kensington Arcade</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leadenhall_Market" title="Leadenhall Market">Leadenhall Market</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/One_New_Change" title="One New Change">One New Change</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Petticoat_Lane_Market" title="Petticoat Lane Market">Petticoat Lane Market</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Exchange,_London" title="Royal Exchange, London">Royal Exchange</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Westfield_London" title="Westfield London">Westfield London</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Westfield_Stratford_City" title="Westfield Stratford City">Westfield Stratford City</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6em;text-align: left;background-color: #eee;"><a href="/wiki/Category:Royal_buildings_in_London" title="Category:Royal buildings in London">Royal buildings</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:11em;text-align: left;background-color: #eee;">Partly occupied by<br />the royal family</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Buckingham_Palace" title="Buckingham Palace">Buckingham Palace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clarence_House" title="Clarence House">Clarence House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kensington_Palace" title="Kensington Palace">Kensington Palace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_James%27s_Palace" title="St James's Palace">St James's Palace</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:11em;text-align: left;background-color: #eee;">Unoccupied</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Banqueting_House,_Whitehall" class="mw-redirect" title="Banqueting House, Whitehall">Banqueting House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hampton_Court_Palace" title="Hampton Court Palace">Hampton Court Palace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kew_Palace" title="Kew Palace">Kew Palace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Queen%27s_Gallery" class="mw-redirect" title="Queen's Gallery">The Queen's Gallery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Mews" title="Royal Mews">Royal Mews, Buckingham Palace</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6em;text-align: left;background-color: #eee;"><a href="/wiki/Category:Skyscrapers_in_London" title="Category:Skyscrapers in London">Skyscrapers</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/One_Canada_Square" title="One Canada Square">One Canada Square</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/One_Churchill_Place" title="One Churchill Place">One Churchill Place</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/8_Canada_Square" title="8 Canada Square">8 Canada Square</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/20_Fenchurch_Street" title="20 Fenchurch Street">20 Fenchurch Street</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/122_Leadenhall_Street" title="122 Leadenhall Street">122 Leadenhall Street</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Broadgate_Tower" title="Broadgate Tower">Broadgate Tower</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Citigroup_Centre_(London)" title="Citigroup Centre (London)">Citigroup Centre (London)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Gherkin" title="The Gherkin">The Gherkin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heron_Tower" title="Heron Tower">Heron Tower</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Shard" title="The Shard">The Shard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_George_Wharf_Tower" title="St George Wharf Tower">St George Wharf Tower</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tower_42" title="Tower 42">Tower 42</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6em;text-align: left;background-color: #eee;">Structures</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Memorial" title="Albert Memorial">Albert Memorial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/ArcelorMittal_Orbit" title="ArcelorMittal Orbit">ArcelorMittal Orbit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Big_Ben" title="Big Ben">Big Ben</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Cenotaph" title="The Cenotaph">The Cenotaph</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cleopatra%27s_Needle,_London" title="Cleopatra's Needle, London">Cleopatra's Needle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crystal_Palace_transmitting_station" title="Crystal Palace transmitting station">Crystal Palace transmitting station</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_Eye" title="London Eye">London Eye</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_Wall" title="London Wall">London Wall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marble_Arch" title="Marble Arch">Marble Arch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monument_to_the_Great_Fire_of_London" title="Monument to the Great Fire of London">Monument to the Great Fire of London</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nelson%27s_Column" title="Nelson's Column">Nelson's Column</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shaftesbury_Memorial_Fountain" title="Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain">Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain ("Eros")</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thames_Barrier" title="Thames Barrier">Thames Barrier</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wellington_Arch" title="Wellington Arch">Wellington Arch</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6em;text-align: left;background-color: #eee;">Transport</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/London_City_Airport" title="London City Airport">City Airport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heathrow_Airport" title="Heathrow Airport">Heathrow Airport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blackfriars_station" title="Blackfriars station">Blackfriars station</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cannon_Street_station" title="Cannon Street station">Cannon Street station</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charing_Cross_railway_station" title="Charing Cross railway station">Charing Cross station</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clapham_Junction_railway_station" title="Clapham Junction railway station">Clapham Junction station</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Euston_railway_station" title="Euston railway station">Euston station</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fenchurch_Street_railway_station" title="Fenchurch Street railway station">Fenchurch Street station</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_King%27s_Cross_railway_station" title="London King's Cross railway station">King's Cross station</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liverpool_Street_station" title="Liverpool Street station">Liverpool Street station</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_Bridge_station" title="London Bridge station">London Bridge station</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_Paddington_station" title="London Paddington station">Paddington station</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Pancras_railway_station" title="St Pancras railway station">St Pancras station</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stratford_station" title="Stratford station">Stratford station</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_Victoria_station" title="London Victoria station">Victoria station</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_Waterloo_station" title="London Waterloo station">Waterloo station</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_Cable_Car" class="mw-redirect" title="London Cable Car">London Cable Car</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Victoria_Coach_Station" title="Victoria Coach Station">Victoria Coach Station</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6em;text-align: left;background-color: #eee;">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Barbican_Estate" title="Barbican Estate">Barbican Estate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battersea_Power_Station" title="Battersea Power Station">Battersea Power Station</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">British Library</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BT_Tower" title="BT Tower">BT Tower</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Botanic_Gardens,_Kew" title="Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew">Kew Gardens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lambeth_Palace" title="Lambeth Palace">Lambeth Palace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lloyd%27s_building" title="Lloyd's building">Lloyd's building</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_Zoo" title="London Zoo">London Zoo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oxo_Tower" title="Oxo Tower">Oxo Tower</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smithfield_Market" class="mw-redirect" title="Smithfield Market">Smithfield Market</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Somerset_House" title="Somerset House">Somerset House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Bartholomew%27s_Hospital" title="St Bartholomew's Hospital">St Bartholomew's Hospital</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Parks_and_open_spaces_in_London" title="Parks and open spaces in London">Parks</a></th><td 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