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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 Library for Science and Technology and the British ...
Research Libraries UK(RLUK) (formerly CURL)[1]comprises 35 university libraries, 3 national libraries, and the Wellcome Collectionin the United Kingdom and Ireland.[2] Its aim is to increase the ability of research libraries to share resources among themselves. The holdings of these libraries provided the basis of the Copaconline catalogue.
The library, which is estimated to have cost £188.8 million, [1] is viewed by the Birmingham City Council as a flagship project for the city's redevelopment. It has been described as the largest public library in the United Kingdom, [3] the largest public cultural space in Europe, [4] [5] [6] and the largest regional library in Europe.
List of national and state libraries. United States Library of Congress, Jefferson Building. A national library is established by the government of a nation to serve as the pre-eminent repository of information for that country. Unlike public libraries, they rarely allow citizens to borrow books. Often, they include numerous rare, valuable, or ...
The British Library of Political and Economic Science, commonly referred to as "LSE Library", is the main library of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). It is one of the largest libraries in the world devoted to the economic and social sciences. [2] The Library responds to around 5,000 visits from students and staff each ...
The House of Commons Library is the library and information resource of the lower house of the British Parliament. It was established in 1818, although its original 1828 construction was destroyed during the burning of Parliament in 1834. The library has adopted the phrase "Contributing to a well-informed democracy" as a summary of its mission ...
Libraries in the British Overseas Territories (2 C) Libraries in England (43 C, 3 P) Libraries in Northern Ireland (1 C, 4 P) Libraries in Scotland (7 C, 10 P) Libraries in Wales (4 C, 8 P)
Royal Librarian (United Kingdom) Coordinates: 51.4841°N 0.6018°W. The office of Royal Librarian, in the Royal Collection Department of the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom, is responsible for the care and maintenance of the books and manuscripts in the Royal Library, a collection spread across all the palaces, occupied ...