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British Library. We are the national library of the UK. 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 ...
Jul 10, 2023 · To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the British Library, here are 50 less-known facts about us – from our buildings and collections, to what goes on behind the scenes. You’ll never see us in the same way again…. 3D model of the Library. 10 million bricks (all individually handmade) were used for the construction of our London building.
The British Library (BL) is the national library of the United Kingdom and one of the world’s largest libraries. Its collections include more than 150 million items, in over 400 languages ...
Charitable Status. The British Library is a charitable organisation and as such we rely on donations to help us protect our collections, put on exhibitions and provide our services We are a charitable organisation under the 2006 Charities Act, however, as an exempt charity, we are not regulated by the Charity Commission, but instead are regulated by the British Library Board.
Mar 9, 2020 · By Rachel Brett, Science Reference Team Leader, The British Library The British Library is one of six UK legal deposit libraries. We are a dual site based in London and Boston Spa, Yorkshire. At St. Pancras in London we have eleven different subject focused reading rooms comprising of: Humanities 1...
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Jan 19, 2024 · Newspapers. Full-text records of newspaper titles digitised from the British Library collection. Each file contains the newspaper’s output for one year, with OCR (Optical Character Recognition) text in XML format.
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