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Leicestershire County Council is the upper-tier local authority for the non-metropolitan county of Leicestershire, England. The non-metropolitan county is smaller than the ceremonial county, which additionally includes Leicester. The county council was originally formed in 1889 by the Local Government Act 1888.
Open Library is an online project intended to create "one web page for every book ever published". Created by Aaron Swartz, [3] [4] Brewster Kahle, [5] Alexis Rossi, [6] Anand Chitipothu, [6] and Rebecca Hargrave Malamud, [6] Open Library is a project of the Internet Archive, a nonprofit organization.
Shetland Library takes part in the Scottish Government's book-gifting programme for under fives, Bookbug. [ 16 ] The main branch in Lerwick runs book groups and there is a regular series of events including author talks and book launches (many of which tie into the Library's Shetland Collection) as well as behind the scenes ‘Basement Browsing ...
It is the legal deposit library of Scotland and is a member of Research Libraries UK (RLUK) [2] and the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL). [3] There are over 24 million items held at the Library in various formats including books, annotated manuscripts and first-drafts, postcards, photographs, and newspapers.
Leeds Central Library is a public library in Leeds.Situated in the city centre, on Calverley Street, it houses the city library service's single largest general lending and reference collection and hosts the Leeds Art Gallery.
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 ...
Its collection includes books, audiobooks, CDs, DVDs, Blu-Ray discs, and PlayStation 3 games. [ 3 ] In early 2010, John Harvard Library added radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology to its entire collection of more than 30,000 circulating materials, giving patrons the option of checking items out themselves without consulting the ...