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The National Lottery Heritage Fund provided the UOSH project with a £9.5 million grant and other donors include the Garfield Weston Foundation, the Foyle Foundation, the Headley Trust, the British Library Trust and American Trust for the British Library, as well as other charities and individuals. The total project funding has now reached £18 ...
The Guildhall library in England, which includes the New Testament in Greek from the 15th century, was established in 1632, when the town library was moved into the east wing of the building. [8] Leicester's first police force had its station in the Guildhall from 1836. [8] The Corporation moved to the new Leicester Town Hall in 1876. Apart ...
Pilkington Library showing floor arrangement and entrance Pilkington Library from the West Park side of the building. The building unusually has the floor with the smallest area at the base of the structure, followed by another slightly larger, these first two floors being known as Level 1 and Level 2 and primarily holding book stock, Level 3 is slightly larger again and contains the entrance ...
OverDrive, Inc. is a worldwide digital distributor of ebooks, audiobooks, online magazines and streaming video titles. The company provides digital rights management and download fulfillment services for publishers, public libraries, K–12 schools, colleges, universities, corporations, legal industries, and formerly retailers.
Research Libraries UK (RLUK) (formerly CURL) [1] comprises 35 university libraries, 3 national libraries, and the Wellcome Collection in the United Kingdom and Ireland. [2] Its aim is to increase the ability of research libraries to share resources among themselves.
Southfields Library The Southfields of Leicester , England consisted of common land south of the city, and now refers to the mostly-developed area immediately south of the city centre . It is one of three such large fields that survive as placenames, the others being the Highfields and the Northfields .
Braunstone is a town and civil parish in the district of Blaby in Leicestershire, England. At the 2011 census the population of the town was 16,850. [1]Braunstone is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, giving a population of "two sokemen and four villeins". [2]