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Pages in category "People associated with the British Library" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Access within the British Library is free. Starting in 2021, some newspaper pages from the years 1720–1880 are free to view online. [18] Full online access is by subscription, based on daily or item charges, £14.99 for one month or £8.34 per month for an annual subscription, as of December 2024.
Margaret Mann – library educator, particularly cataloging; founding faculty member at University of Michigan library science program (1926) Allie Beth Martin; Harry S. Martin – former Head Librarian, Harvard Law Library; Kathleen de la Peña McCook – library scholar, public librarian, free speech advocate, and author
The British Library was created on 1 July 1973 as a result of the British Library Act 1972. [13] Prior to this, the national library was part of the British Museum , which provided the bulk of the holdings of the new library, alongside smaller organisations which were folded in (such as the National Central Library , [ 14 ] the National Lending ...
The actual governance of the British Museum, however, is delegated to its board of trustees. [1] At the museum's inception its most senior member of staff was called "principal librarian". The job title became "director and principal librarian" in 1898, and "director" in 1973, on the separation of the British Library from the museum.
Live Search Books was a search service for books launched in December 2006, part of Microsoft's Live Search range of services. Microsoft was working with a number of libraries, including the British Library , to digitize books and make them searchable, and in the case of out-of-copyright books, available across the web.
Recognising this, the British Library has developed resources to facilitate this process, including biographical indexes, professional research services and close links with the Families In British India Society. The East India Company, the Board of Control and the India Office kept extensive ecclesiastical records concerning British people in ...
The British Library Philatelic Collections is the national philatelic collection of the United Kingdom with over 8 million items from around the world. [1] [2] It was established in 1891 as part of the British Museum Library, later to become the British Library, with the collection of Thomas Tapling.