British Library main building, London The British Library (BL) is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is based in London and is one of the world's most significant research libraries, holding over 150 million items. The Library's collections include around 25 million books,[1] along with substantial additional collection of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC. As of March 2004 the Library held 11.2 million monographs and received more than 41,500 regular serials. As a legal deposit library, the BL receives copies of nearly all books produced in the United Kingdom, including all foreign books distributed in the UK. It also purchases many items which are only published outside Britain. The British Library adds some 3 million items every year. Download high resolution version (1277x552, 57 KB)British Library - Kings Cross - London - England - photo by and copyright Tagishsimon 2nd May 2004 File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
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A national library is a library specifically established by the government of a country to serve as the preeminent repository of information for that country. ...
This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...
This is a list of notable libraries. ...
BC may stand for: Before Christ (see Anno Domini) : an abbreviation used to refer to a year before the beginning of the year count that starts with the supposed year of the birth of Jesus. ...
A monograph is a scholarly book or a treatise on a single subject or a group of related subjects. ...
It has been suggested that this article be split into multiple articles accessible from a disambiguation page. ...
United States Library of Congress, Jefferson building A national library is a library specifically established by the government of a nation to serve as the pre-eminent repository of information for that country. ...
Historical background As an institution the British Library is young compared with its equivalents in other countries, having been created in 1973 by the British Library Act 1972. Prior to this, the national library was part of the British Museum, which provided the bulk of the holdings of the new library, alongside various smaller organisations which were folded in (such as the British National Bibliography). In 1983, the Library absorbed the National Sound Archive. The core of the Library's historical collections is based on a series of donations and acquisitions from the eighteenth century, known as the 'foundation collections'. These include the books and manuscripts of Sir Robert Cotton, Sir Hans Sloane, Robert Harley and King George III. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2600 × 1950 pixel, file size: 689 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Originally uploaded to En Wiki - 00:38, 27 April 2006 . ...
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Paolozzis Newton, bronze (1995) in the courtyard of the British Library. ...
The British Museum in London is one of the worlds greatest museums of human history and culture. ...
The National Sound Archive, a division of the British Library, is one of the largest collections of recorded sound in the world, including music, spoken word and ambient recordings. ...
Portrait of Robert Cotton, commissioned 1626 and attributed to Cornelius Johnson (or Janssen), (1593-1661). ...
Hans Sloane. ...
Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer (5 December 1661 - 21 May 1724), was an English statesman of the Stuart and early Georgian periods. ...
George III (George William Frederick) (4 June 1738–29 January 1820) was King of Great Britain, and King of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until 1 January 1801, and thereafter King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death. ...
For many years its collections were dispersed in various buildings around central London, in places such as Bloomsbury (within the British Museum), Chancery Lane, and Holborn, with the lending library at Boston Spa, Yorkshire and the newspaper library at Colindale, north-west London. However, since 1997 the main collection has been housed in a single new building on Euston Road next to St. Pancras railway station. The new library was designed specially for the purpose by the architect Colin St. John Wilson. Facing Euston Road is a large piazza that includes pieces of public art, such as large sculptures by Eduardo Paolozzi (a bronze statue based on William Blake's study of Isaac Newton) and Anthony Gormley. It is the largest public building constructed in the United Kingdom in the 20th century. However, post-1800 newspapers are still held at Colindale, and the Document Supply Centre is still in Yorkshire. The Library also has a book storage depot in Woolwich, south-east London. Central London is a much-used but unofficial and vaguely defined term for the most inner part of London, the capital of England. ...
Bloomsbury is an area of central London between Holborn and Euston station, developed by the Russell family in the 17th and 18th centuries into a fashionable residential area. ...
The British Museum in London is one of the worlds greatest museums of human history and culture. ...
Chancery Lane tube station platform, eastbound Chancery Lane tube station platform, with arriving Central Line train Chancery Lane is a London Underground station in central London. ...
Holborn (pronounced ho-bun or ho-burn) is a place in London, named after a tributary to the river Fleet that flowed through the area, the Hole-bourne (the stream in the hollow). ...
Boston Spa is a village and civil parish in Metropolitan Borough of Leeds in West Yorkshire, England, 3 miles south of Wetherby, on the banks of the River Wharfe. ...
Look up Yorkshire in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
Colindale is a place in the London Borough of Barnet. ...
Euston Road is an important thoroughfare in central London. ...
The Gothic Revival facade and clock tower of the disused Midland Hotel are the most visible part of St Pancras station. ...
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Euston Road is an important thoroughfare in central London. ...
The term public art properly refers to works of art in any media that has been planned and executed with the specific intention of being sited or staged in the public domain, usually outside and accessible to all. ...
Paolozzis Newton, bronze (1995) in the courtyard of the British Library. ...
William Blake (November 28, 1757 – August 12, 1827) was an English poet, visionary, painter, and printmaker. ...
Sir Isaac Newton, (4 January 1643 – 31 March 1727) [ OS: 25 December 1642 – 20 March 1727][1] was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, and alchemist, regarded by many as the greatest figure in the history of science. ...
Angel of the North Antony Gormley (born 1950) is an English sculptor. ...
Woolwich is a suburb in south-east London, England in the London Borough of Greenwich, on the south side of the River Thames, though the tiny exclave of North Woolwich (which is now part of the London Borough of Newham) is on the north side of the river. ...
At the heart of the building is a four-storey glass tower containing the King's Library, with 65,000 printed volumes along with other pamphlets, manuscripts and maps collected by King George III between 1763 and 1820. The tower's design pays a silent debt to the elegance of Yale University's Beinecke Library.[citation needed] The King’s Library was the original name applied both to the British Royal Collection of over 60,000 books and to the room in the British Museum that housed them. ...
George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 1738 – 29 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and King of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until 1 January 1801, and thereafter of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death. ...
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Yale Universitys Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library was a 1963 gift of the Beinecke family. ...
Access to the collections
 Interior of the British Library, with the smoked glass wall of the King's Library in the background. A number of important works are on display to the general public in a gallery called "Sir John Ritblat Gallery: Treasures of the British Library" which is open to the public seven days a week at no charge. The Library also stages temporary free exhibitions on a wide range of subjects which can be illuminated by the items in its collection. Download high resolution version (1353x822, 375 KB)Interior of the British Library designed by Colin St. ...
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The current main exhibition "Sacred", running from 27 April-23 September 2007, features over 150 holy texts from the religions of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism, and dozens of other religious items. Documents on show include a fragment of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the earliest Jewish Biblical documents; one of the earliest two Christian Bibles, the Codex Sinaiticus; and one of the earliest Qur'ans, dating from the eighth century.
Other items can be accessed in the reading rooms. In the past the Library emphasised its role as a "library of last resort" for people who needed access to deep and specialised collections which they could not find anywhere else. Nowadays it adopts a slightly more welcoming approach, however, it is not a public library. Anyone with a permanent address who wishes to carry out research can register for a reader's pass, providing they provide two forms of identification for security purposes. The Library has come under criticism for admitting undergraduate students (who have access to their own university libraries) to the reading rooms, but the Library says that they have always admitted undergraduates as long as they have a legitimate personal, work-related or academic research purpose.[2] Librarians and patrons in a typical larger urban public library. ...
Catalogue entries can be found on the British Library Integrated Catalogue, which is based on Aleph (a commercial Integrated Library System). Western Manuscripts are indexed and described on MOLCAT and the Digital Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts. The Library's website also offers other specialised catalogues and research services.
According to the website, more than half a million people use the Library's reading rooms every year. The large reading rooms cover hundreds of seats which are often filled with researchers every day, especially during the Easter and Summer holidays.
Business & IP Centre In May 2005, the British Library was awarded £1 million by the London Development Agency to transform two of its reading rooms into the Business & IP Centre. The Centre was opened as a permanent resource in March 2006. It holds arguably the most comprehensive collection of business and intellectual property in the United Kingdom and is the official library of the UK Intellectual Property Office. The London Development Agency is an agency of the Greater London Authority that is responsible for development in Greater London. ...
For the 2006 film, see Intellectual Property (film). ...
The UK Intellectual Property Office, or UK-IPO, formerly known as The Patent Office,[1] is the lead United Kingdom government agency responsible for developing and administering policy in most areas of intellectual property, under the overall aegis of the Department of Trade and Industry. ...
The Business & IP Centre is separated into two distinct areas:
Business information
The collection is divided up into four main information areas: market research; company information; trade directories; and journals. It is available for free in hard copy and online via approximately 30 subscription databases. You must have a reader pass to access the collection and the databases. Market research is the process of systematic gathering, recording and analyzing of data about customers, competitors and the market. ...
A journal (through French from late Latin diurnalis, daily) is a daily record of events or business. ...
Patent and intellectual property information
There are over 50 million patent specifications from 40 countries in a collection dating back to 1855. The collection also includes official gazettes on patents, trade marks and Registered Design; Law reports and other material on litigation; and information on copyright. This is available in hard copy and via online databases. You must have a reader pass to access the collection and the databases. A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a state to a patentee for a fixed period of time in exchange for a disclosure of an invention. ...
The Bass Red Triangle, was the first trademark registered in Britain in 1876. ...
Industrial design rights are intellectual property rights that protect the visual design of objects that are not purely utilitarian. ...
A lawsuit is a civil action brought before a court in order to recover a right, obtain damages for an injury, obtain an injunction to prevent an injury, or obtain a declaratory judgment to prevent future legal disputes. ...
Copyright symbol Copyright is a set of exclusive rights regulating the use of a particular expression of an idea or information. ...
Impartial information experts are trained to guide SMEs and Entrepreneurs to use the full range of resources. The Business & IP Centre also offers additional services including: SME may stand for: Small and Medium-sized Enterprise(es), a synonym for Small and Medium-sized Business(es) (SMB) Spontaneous Music Ensemble Subject Matter Expert Structure Mapping Engine — analogy-based AI technology by Ken Forbus based on Dedre Gentners[1] structure-mapping theory [2] Sony Music Entertainment - record...
Entrepreneurs created by Thomas Clarke in 2001. ...
• The provision of a networking area for SMEs to meet and network with other SMEs, find out about the Library's full range of services and get inspiration from success stories about products and services conceived by other centre users.
• Workshops and clinics run by the British Library and its business partners on subjects including: using intellectual property resources to check if ideas are novel, how to protect your ideas & designs, capitalising on market research resources, financing, marketing and selling skills, and pinpointing customers. Some of these workshops have a specific focus on supporting the needs of women, black and Asian minority ethnic groups, and entrepreneurs with disabilities. These are free or charged at a subsidised rate.
• Events featuring successful entrepreneurs. Previous events have included ‘Winners – The Rise and Rise of Black British Entrepreneurs’, ‘The Asian Advantage’, ‘Mothers of Invention’, and talks by Anita Roddick. These are available as webcasts. Dame Anita Roddick DBE (b. ...
Legal deposit An Act of Parliament in 1911 established the principle of the Legal Deposit, ensuring that the British Library, along with five other libraries in Great Britain and Ireland, is entitled to receive a free copy of every item published in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. The other five libraries are: the Bodleian Library at Oxford; the University Library at Cambridge; Trinity College Library in Dublin; and the National Libraries of Scotland and Wales. The British Library is the only one that must receive a copy of every item published in Britain; the others are entitled to these items but must specifically request them from the publisher. An Act of Parliament or Act is law enacted by the parliament (see legislation). ...
United States Library of Congress, Jefferson building A national library is a library specifically established by the government of a nation to serve as the pre-eminent repository of information for that country. ...
Entrance to the Library, with the coats-of-arms of several Oxford colleges The Bodleian Library, the main research library of the University of Oxford, is one of the oldest libraries in Europe, and in England is second in size only to the British Library. ...
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Cambridge University Library The Cambridge University Library is the centrally-administered library of the University of Cambridge in England. ...
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Trinity College, Dublin TCD,corporately designated as the Provost, Fellows and Scholars of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, was founded in 1592 by Elizabeth I, and is the only constituent college of the University of Dublin, Irelands oldest university. ...
WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: , Statistics Province: Leinster County: Dáil Éireann: Dublin Central, Dublin North Central, Dublin North East, Dublin North West, Dublin South Central, Dublin South East European Parliament: Dublin Dialling Code: 01, +353 1 Postal District(s): D1-24, D6W Area: 114. ...
The building on George IV bridge The National Library of Scotland is a legal deposit library in Scotland. ...
The National Library of Wales (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru in Welsh) is a legal deposit library in Aberystwyth, Wales. ...
In 2003 the Ipswich MP Chris Mole introduced a Private Member's Bill which eventually passed, becoming the Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003. This Act extends the Legal Deposit requirements to electronic documents such as CD-ROMs and selected websites. The BL explains its policies on legal deposit here. Ipswich is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
Chris Mole Christopher David Mole (born March 16, 1958, Bromley) is the current member of Parliament for Ipswich in east England, and a member of the ruling Labour Party. ...
A Private Members Bill is a proposed law introduced by a backbench member of parliament, whether from the government or the opposition side, to that legislature or parliament. ...
The Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003 (the 2003 Act) is a British Act of Parliament which regulates the legal deposit of publications in the United Kingdom. ...
The CD-ROM (an abbreviation for Compact Disc Read-Only Memory (ROM)) is a non-volatile optical data storage medium using the same physical format as audio compact discs, readable by a computer with a CD-ROM drive. ...
A website, Web site or WWW site (often shortened to just site) is a collection of webpages, that is, HTML/XHTML documents accessible via HTTP on the Internet; all publicly accessible websites in existence comprise the World Wide Web. ...
Newspapers
 British Library Newspapers, Colindale The British Library Newspapers section is based in Colindale in North London. The Library has a more or less complete collection of British and Irish newspapers since 1840, owing in part to legal deposit legislation of 1869 mandating that the Library receive a copy of each edition of a newspaper. London editions of national daily and Sunday newspapers are complete back to 1801. In total the collection consists of 660,000 bound volumes and 370,000 reels of microfilm containing tens of millions of newspapers with 52,000 titles on 45km of shelves. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2272 × 1704 pixel, file size: 1. ...
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Colindale is a place in the London Borough of Barnet. ...
Microfilm machines may be available at libraries or record archives. ...
A collection of particular interest is the Thomason Tracts, containing 7,200 seventeenth century newspapers, and the Burney Collection featuring newspapers from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The Thomason Tracts and Burney collections are held at St Pancras, and are available in facsimile. The Thomason Tracts are a collection of more than 22,000 pamphlets, broadsides, manuscripts, books, and news sheets, most of which were printed and distributed in London from 1640 to 1661. ...
(16th century - 17th century - 18th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700. ...
(17th century - 18th century - 19th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 18th century refers to the century that lasted from 1701 through 1800. ...
Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The section also has extensive records of non-British newspapers in languages that use the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets. The collection is less substantial for languages of the Middle East and the rest of Asia, though some holdings of these are held at the main library in St. Pancras. The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. ...
The Cyrillic alphabet (pronounced also called azbuka, from the old name of the first two letters) is an alphabet used for several East and South Slavic languages—Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Rusyn, Serbian, and Ukrainian—and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe. ...
A map showing countries commonly considered to be part of the Middle East The Middle East is a region comprising the lands around the southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea, a territory that extends from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. ...
Miscellaneous information
 British Library Euston Road entrance, with distinctive red logo. The Library also holds the Oriental and India Office Collections (OIOC), now called APAC (Asia, Pacific & Africa Collections) which contain the collections of the India Office Library and Records, and materials in the languages of Asia and of north and north-east Africa. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (697x1024, 191 KB)British Library entrance cnr Ossulston Street and Euston Road, showing distinctive read logo. ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (697x1024, 191 KB)British Library entrance cnr Ossulston Street and Euston Road, showing distinctive read logo. ...
The Oriental and India Office Collections (OIOC) form a significant part of the holdings of the British Library. ...
The British Library does not specifically serve the legislature. Parliament has its own libraries, the House of Commons Library and the House of Lords Library. The Houses of Parliament, as seen over Westminster Bridge The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body in the United Kingdom and British overseas territories. ...
The House of Commons Library is the library and information resource of the lower house of the British Parliament. ...
In the British Library's Digital library project collections can be toured online and the virtual pages of Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks and other great works can be turned electronically. The British Library's secure electronic delivery service, started in 2003 at a cost of 6 million pounds, brings access to more than one hundred million items (including 280,000 journal titles, 50 million patents, 5 million reports, 476,000 U.S. dissertations and 433,000 conference proceedings) for researchers and library patrons worldwide which were previously unavailable outside the Library due to copyright restrictions. A digital library is a library in which collections are stored in digital formats (as opposed to print, microform, or other media) and accessible by computers. ...
The Mona Lisa Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was an Italian polymath: scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, musician, and writer. ...
An alternative to localized repositories of physically secured documents Secure electronic delivery services such as that opened in 2003 by The British Library Document Supply Centre at Boston Spa, allow extended access to copyright material for which access rights have not been granted for open access over the Internet...
Copyright symbol Copyright is a set of exclusive rights regulating the use of a particular expression of an idea or information. ...
The use of the Library's web catalogue also continues to increase. In 2003 more than 9.7 million searches were conducted.
The Guinness Book of World Records currently lists the American Library of Congress as the "World's Largest Library".[3] However, this is based on the shelf space the collection occupies; the Library of Congress states that its collection fills about 530 miles (850 km),[4] while the British Library reports about 388 miles (625 km) of shelves.[5] On the other hand, the Library of Congress holds about 130 million items with 29 million books,[6] as against approximately 150 million items with 25 million books for the British Library. The Guinness Book of Records (or in recent editions Guinness World Records, and in previous US editions Guinness Book of World Records) is a book published annually, containing an internationally recognized collection of superlatives: both in terms of human achievement and the extrema of the natural world. ...
The Library of Congress is the de facto national library of the United States and the research arm of the United States Congress. ...
Highlights of the collections Image:AurelStein. ...
The Chinese Diamond Sutra, the oldest known dated printed book in the world, printed in the 9th year of Xiantong Era of the Tang Dynasty, i. ...
Folio 27r from the Lindisfarne Gospels contains the incipit from the Gospel of Matthew. ...
A copy of the Gutenberg Bible, this version owned by the U.S. Library of Congress The Gutenberg Bible (also known as the 42-line Bible, and as the Mazarin Bible) is a print of the Latin Vulgate translation of the Bible that was printed by Johannes Gutenberg, in Mainz...
Magna Carta Magna Carta (Latin for Great Charter, literally Great Paper), also called Magna Carta Libertatum (Great Charter of Freedoms), is an English charter originally issued in 1215. ...
The Egerton Gospel (British Library Egerton Papyrus 2) refers to a group of fragments of a codex of a previously unknown gospel, found in Egypt and sold to the British Museum in 1934; the physical fragments are now dated to the very end of the 2nd century AD, although the...
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The first page of Beowulf Beowulf is an Old English heroic epic poem composed in the later Early Middle Ages (in the 8th, 9th or 10th century). ...
A portion of the Codex Sinaiticus, containing Esther 2:3-8. ...
The Mona Lisa Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was an Italian polymath: scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, musician, and writer. ...
Bach in a 1748 portrait by Haussmann Places in which Bach resided throughout his life Johann Sebastian Bach (pronounced ) (21 March 1685 O.S. – 28 July 1750 N.S.) was a prolific German composer and organist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra and solo instruments drew together the...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (IPA: , baptized Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart) (January 27, 1756 – December 5, 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. ...
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Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, OM CH (November 22, 1913 Lowestoft, Suffolk - December 4, 1976 Aldeburgh, Suffolk) was a British composer, conductor, and pianist. ...
My Ladye Nevells Booke is a compilation of the finest keyboard pieces by the English composer William Byrd, and, together with the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, one of the most important collections of keyboard music of the renaissance. ...
Philatelic collections
 The entrance gate and its own shadow. The gate was designed by Lida and David Kindersley. The British Library Philatelic Collections are the National Philatelic Collections of the United Kingdom. The Collections were established in 1891 with the donation of the Tapling Collection, they steadily developed and now comprise over twenty five major collections and a number of smaller ones, encompassing a wide-range of disciplines. The collections include postage and revenue stamps, postal stationery, essays, proofs, covers and entries, 'cinderella stamp' material, specimen issues, airmails, some postal history materials, official and private posts, etc., for almost all countries and periods. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1719x1152, 911 KB) Description: British Library Gate. ...
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Close examination of the Penny Red, left, reveals a 148 in the margin, indicating that it was printed with plate #148. ...
A selection of Hong Kong postage stamps A postage stamp is evidence of pre-paying a fee for postal services. ...
Postal stationery: Postcard of 1895 A piece of postal stationery is an envelope, letter sheet, or postal card with an amount of postage preprinted on it, at the postcard rate for postcards, and (usually) at the domestic first-class rate for letter sheets and envelopes. ...
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Proofreading means reading a proof copy of a text in order to detect and correct any errors. ...
In philately, a cover is an envelope or package, typically with stamps that have been cancelled. ...
A cinderella stamp is a label similar to a postage stamp which may or may not be issued by a post office. ...
Airmail imprint on an envelope (Thailand) Airmail (or air mail) is mail that is transported by aircraft. ...
For a time after the Anschluss in 1938, letters from Austria to Germany were required to add German stamps, resulting in a mixed franking. ...
A British pillar box The postal system is a system by which written documents typically enclosed in envelopes, and also small packages containing other matter, are delivered to destinations around the world. ...
An extensive display of material from the collections is on exhibit and is probably the best permanent display of diverse classic stamps and philatelic material in the world. Approximately 80,000 items on 6,000 sheets may be viewed in 1,000 display frames; 2,400 sheets are from the Tapling Collection. All other material, which covers the whole world, is available to students and researchers by appointment.
As well as these extensive collections, the subject literature is very actively acquired, and makes the British Library one of the world's prime philatelic research centres. Research is a human activity based on intellectual investigation and aimed at discovering, interpreting, and revising human knowledge on different aspects of the world. ...
Threatened cutbacks to services In February 2007 it was announced that threatened Treasury cuts to the British Library budget may necessitate cutbacks in services and facilities. These would include reducing the reading room opening hours, introducing charges for researchers and the closure of the public exhibitions, schools learning programs and the national newspaper archive in Colindale. There is considerable public resistance to this, especially from academics and students, and several thousand names have been subscribed to a petition to the government.[7] Colindale is a place in the London Borough of Barnet. ...
References - ^ Encyclopædia Britannica Article: British Library
- ^ A.N. Wilson, Evening Standard; Tristram Hunt, Guardian.
- ^ Guiness World Records: Amazing Feats: Big Stuff: Library: Largest library
- ^ Welcome Message from the Librarian of Congress
- ^ The British Library: About us: Did you know?
- ^ Welcome Message from the Librarian of Congress
- ^ British Library petition on the 10 Downing Street e-petitions site
- Philatelic collections. Retrieved on April 4, 2005.
- Sussex, John (editor) (1990). Stamp World London 90, souvenir handbook. Stamp World Exhibitions. ISBN 0-9515891-0-5.
is the 94th day of the year (95th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
See also Image File history File links Commons-logo. ...
The Wikimedia Commons (also called Wikicommons) is a repository of free content images, sound and other multimedia files. ...
The British Library Sound Archive in London, England is one of the largest collections of recorded sound in the world, including music, spoken word and ambient recordings. ...
British literature is literature from the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. ...
The British Museum Reading Room, situated in the centre of the Great Court of the British Museum, used to be the main reading room of the British Library. ...
The Incunabula Short Title Catalogue (ISTC) is an electronic bibliographic database maintained by the British Library which seeks to catalogue all known incunabula. ...
The Library of Congress National Digital Library Program (NDLP) is assembling a digital library of reproductions of primary source materials to support the study of the history and culture of the United States. ...
This is a list of projects related to digital libraries. ...
The National Archives is a British Governmental organisation created in April 2003. ...
The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program is a national strategic program being led by the Library of Congress to preserve digital content. ...
The building on George IV bridge The National Library of Scotland is a legal deposit library in Scotland. ...
The National Library of Wales (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru in Welsh) is a legal deposit library in Aberystwyth, Wales. ...
The Theatre Archive Project is a five-year project (2003-2008) to reinvestigate British theatre history 1945-1968, from the perspectives of both the theatregoer and the practitioner. ...
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