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Access our collection. Search our online catalogue to find the majority of books and special collections held at St Pancras and limited collection items at Boston Spa. You will need to come onsite to order, and please note not everything is available. Please contact us to check availability.
- British Library
Our shelves hold over 170 million items - a living...
- British Library
Our shelves hold over 170 million items - a living collection that gets bigger every day. Although our roots extend back centuries, we collect everything published today, tomorrow and decades into the future. We have millions of books, but also newspapers, maps, sound recordings, patents and stamps.
Sep 6, 2015 · Presently, the BL holds over 170 million items including almost 14 million books, 6 million sound recordings, 4 million cartographic items, and 350,000 manuscripts. Approximately 3 million new items are added every year, thanks to its status as a legal deposit library.
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Digital guide to the British Library. Explore our London St Pancras building and collections with our free digital guide. Discover some of the world's most significant books, maps and manuscripts, find artworks on display around the building and access behind-the-scenes content with the free British Library Bloomberg Connects digital guide.
The Library's collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial holdings of manuscripts and items dating as far back as 2000 BC. The library maintains a programme for content acquisition and adds some three million items each year occupying 9.6 kilometres (6 mi) of new shelf space.
Aug 25, 2020 · Our collections are truly global, and this is reflected in items such as the Ma’il Qur’an (the Library's oldest Qur'an manuscript) and Codex Sinaiticus (an early manuscript of the Bible, and the first to contain the complete New Testament).
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The Foyle Special Collections Library holds over 200,000 items – printed books, pamphlets and periodicals, as well as maps, slides, manuscripts, typescripts and photographs – ranging in date from the 15th century to the present day. Many items are extremely rare; some are unique.
