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Chetham's Library in Manchester, England, is the oldest free public reference library in the English-speaking world. [1] Chetham's Hospital, which contains both the library and Chetham's School of Music, was established in 1653 under the will of Humphrey Chetham (1580–1653), for the education of "the sons of honest, industrious and painful parents", [1] and a library for the use of scholars.
The Bodleian Library (/ ˈ b ɒ d l i ən, b ɒ d ˈ l iː ən /) is the main research library of the University of Oxford. Founded in 1602 by Sir Thomas Bodley, it is one of the oldest libraries in Europe. With over 13 million printed items, [1] it is the second-largest library in Britain after the British Library. [2]
Chetham's Library in Manchester, which claims to be the oldest public library in the English-speaking world, opened in 1653. [111] Other early town libraries of the UK include those of Ipswich (1612), Bristol (founded in 1613 and opened in 1615), and Leicester (1632). Shrewsbury School also opened its library to townsfolk. [112]
Library interior. Duke Humfrey's Library is the oldest reading room in the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford. It is named after Humphrey of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Gloucester, who donated 281 books after his death in 1447. Sections of the libraries were restored and expanded in the 16th and 17th centuries, including the addition of a ...
The 1960s saw the number of UK universities more than double from 22 to 45. Universities founded during the 1960s divide into two main groups: the plateglass universities , so called because of their dominant architectural style, and the former colleges of advanced technology that were converted to universities following the Robbins Report .
Merton College Library (in Merton College, Oxford) is one of the earliest libraries in England and one of the oldest academic library in the world still in continuous daily use. [1] [2] The library is located in several parts of the college, and houses a priceless collection of early printed books and more than 300 medieval manuscripts.
In 2011 the Library launched its Student Prize, a writing competition open to final-year undergraduates at higher education institutions in the UK. The theme was "The future of Britain lies with the right-hand side of the brain", and the winner was announced in March 2012 as Ben Mason, a student at Trinity College, Oxford. [46]
Archbishop Robert Leighton, 1611-84 Leighton Library, Dunblane. Internal shot of the bookcases and display units. The Leighton Library, or Bibliotheca Leightoniana, in The Cross, Dunblane, is the oldest purpose-built library in Scotland and also has a well-documented history as one of the earliest public-subscription libraries in Scotland. [1]