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The '''British Library''' is the [[national library]] of the United Kingdom,[] and one of the world's largest libraries in terms of total number of items. The library is a major [[List of Research libraries|research library]], holding over 150 million items from every country in the world, in virtually all known languages[] and in many formats, both print and digital: books, manuscripts, journals, newspapers, magazines, sound and music recordings, videos, play-scripts, patents, databases, maps, stamps, prints, drawings. The Library's collections include around 14 million books[] (second only to the USA's [[Library of Congress]]), along with substantial holdings of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 2000 BC.

As a [[legal deposit]] library, the British Library receives copies of all books produced in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, including a significant proportion of overseas titles distributed in the UK. It also has a programme for content acquisitions. The British Library adds some three million items every year occupying 11 kilometres of new shelf space.

The library is a [[non-departmental public body]] sponsored by the [[Department for Culture, Media and Sport]]. It is located on the north side of [[Euston Road]] in [[St Pancras, London]] (between [[Euston railway station]] and [[St Pancras railway station]]) and has a document storage centre and reading room at [[Boston Spa]], [[Wetherby]] in [[West Yorkshire]].

==Historical background==
The British Library was created on 1 July 1973 as a result of the ''[[List of Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, 1960–1979|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 smaller organisations which were folded in (such as the [[National Central Library (England and Wales)|National Central Library]], the [[National Lending Library for Science and Technology]] and the British National Bibliography).[] In 1974 functions previously exercised by the Office for Scientific and Technical Information were taken over; in 1982 the [[India Office Library and Records]] and the HMSO Binderies became British Library responsibilities.[] In 1983, the Library absorbed the [[National Sound Archive]], which holds many sound and video recordings, with over a million discs and thousands of tapes.[]

The core of the Library's historical collections is based on a series of donations and acquisitions from the 18th century, known as the 'foundation collections'.[] These include the books and manuscripts of [[Robert Bruce Cotton|Sir Robert Cotton]], [[Sir Hans Sloane]], [[Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer|Robert Harley]] and [[King George III]].[]

[[File:British Library.jpg|thumb|left|The British Library in [[Thorp Arch Trading Estate|Thorp Arch]], [[West Yorkshire]]]]
[[File:British Library + St Pancras 7527-31hug.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The British Library and [[St Pancras railway station|St Pancras]]]]

For many years its collections were dispersed in various buildings around [[central London]], in places such as [[Bloomsbury]] (within the British Museum), [[Chancery Lane tube station|Chancery Lane]], and [[Holborn]], with an [[Interlibrary loan|interlibrary lending]] centre at [[Boston Spa]], [[Wetherby]] in West Yorkshire (situated on Thorp Arch Trading Estate) and the newspaper library at [[Colindale]], north-west London.[] Since 1997 the main collection has been housed in a single new building on [[Euston Road]] next to [[St. Pancras railway station]], although post-1800 newspapers are still held at Colindale, and the Document Supply Centre is in Yorkshire. The Library has a book storage depot in [[Woolwich]], south-east London. 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 [[Antony Gormley]]. It is the largest public building constructed in the [[United Kingdom]] in the 20th century.[][]

In the middle 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.[] In December 2009 a new storage building at Thorp Arch, [[City of Leeds]], West Yorkshire was opened by [[Rosie Winterton]]. The new facility, costing £26 million, has a capacity for seven million items, stored in more than 140,000 [[Barcode|bar-coded]] containers, which are retrieved by robots,[] from the 262 kilometres of temperature and humidity-controlled storage space.[]

== Legal deposit ==
[[Image:BritishLibraryInterior02.jpg|thumb|right|Interior of the British Library, with the smoked glass wall of the King's Library in the background.]]
In England, [[Legal Deposit|legal deposit]] can be traced back to at least 1610.[] An [[Act of Parliament]] in 1911 established the principle of the legal deposit, ensuring that the British Library and five other libraries in Great Britain and Ireland are entitled to receive a free copy of every item published in Britain. The other five libraries are: the [[Bodleian Library]] at [[Oxford]]; the [[Cambridge University Library|University Library]] at [[Cambridge]]; the [[Trinity College Library, Dublin|Trinity College Library]] at [[Dublin]]; and the National Libraries of [[National Library of Scotland|Scotland]] and [[National Library of Wales|Wales]]. The British Library is the only one that must automatically receive a copy of every item published in Britain; the others are entitled to these items, but must specifically request them from the publisher after learning that they have been or are about to be published, a task done centrally by the [[Agency for the Legal Deposit Libraries]].

Further, under the terms of [[Irish copyright law]] (most recently the Copyright and Related Rights Act 2000), the British Library is entitled to automatically receive a free copy of every book published in the [[Republic of Ireland]], alongside the [[National Library of Ireland]], the Trinity College Library at Dublin, the library of the [[University of Limerick]], the library of [[Dublin City University]] and the libraries of the four constituent universities of the [[National University of Ireland]]. The Bodleian Library, Cambridge University Library, and the National Libraries of Scotland and Wales are also entitled to copies of material published in Ireland, but again must formally make requests.

In 2003 the [[Ipswich (UK Parliament constituency)|Ipswich]] MP [[Chris Mole]] introduced a [[Private Member's Bill]] which became the [[Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003]]. The Act extends United Kingdom legal deposit requirements to electronic documents, such as [[CD-ROM]]s and selected [[websites]].[]

The Library also holds the [[Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections]] (APAC) which include the [[India Office Records]] and materials in the languages of Asia and of north and north-east Africa.[]

== Using the Library's Reading Rooms ==
[[File:British Library book transport.jpg|thumb|Demonstration of the mechanical book handling system (MBHS[]) used to deliver requested books from stores to reading rooms.]]
[[Image:Sitting on history.jpg|thumb|Bronze sculpture. [[Bill Woodrow]]'s 'Sitting On History' was purchased for the British Library by [[Carl Djerassi]] and [[Diane Middlebrook]] in 1997. Sitting on History, with its ball and chain, refers to the book as the captor of information which we cannot escape The bust visible top left is [[Colin St. John Wilson]] RA by Celia Scott, 1998 a gift from the American Trust for the British Library. Sir Colin designed the British Library building]]
The Library is open to everyone who has a genuine need to use its collections. Anyone with a permanent address who wishes to carry out research can apply for a Reader Pass; they are required to provide proof of signature and address for security purposes.[]

Historically, only those wishing to use specialised material unavailable in other public or academic libraries would be given a Reader Pass. Recently, the Library has been criticised for admitting numbers of [[undergraduate]] students, who have access to their own university libraries, to the reading rooms. The Library replied that it has always admitted undergraduates as long as they have a legitimate personal, work-related or academic research purpose.[]

The majority of catalogue entries can be found on the British Library Integrated Catalogue, which is based on Aleph,[] a commercial [[Integrated library system]]. Other collections have their own catalogues, such as [http://molcat.bl.uk western manuscripts]. The large reading rooms offer hundreds of seats which are often filled with researchers, especially during the Easter and summer holidays.

== Material available online ==
The British Library makes a number of images of items within its collections available online. Its ''Online Gallery'' gives access to 30,000 images from various medieval books, together with a handful of exhibition-style items in a proprietary format, such as the [[Lindisfarne Gospels]]. This includes the facility to "turn the virtual pages" of a few documents, such as [[Leonardo da Vinci]]'s notebooks.[]

The British Library's commercial [[secure electronic delivery service]] was started in 2003 at a cost of £6 million. This offers more than 100 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. In line with a government directive that the British Library must cover a percentage of its operating costs, a fee is charged to the user. However, this service is no longer profitable and has led to a series of restructures to try to prevent further losses.[]
When Google Books started, the British Library signed an agreement with [[Microsoft]] to digitise a number of books from the British Library for its [[Live Search Books]] project.[] This material was only available to readers in the USA, and closed in May 2008.[] The scanned books are currently available via the British Library catalogue or [[Amazon.com|Amazon]].[]

In October 2010 the British Library launched its ''Management and business studies portal''. This website is designed to allow digital access to management research reports, consulting reports, working papers and articles.[]

== Exhibitions ==
[[Image:Newton by Eduardo Paolozzi 2003-03-10.jpg|thumb|right|Bronze sculpture. Inscription reads '[[Isaac Newton|NEWTON]]' after [[William Blake]] by [[Eduardo Paolozzi]] 1995 Grant aided by The Foundation for Sport & the Arts. Funded by subscriptions from the football pools, Vernon, Littlewoods, Zetters]]
A number of books and [[manuscript]]s are on display to the general public in the Sir John Ritblat Gallery which is open seven days a week at no charge. Some of the items in the exhibition include ''[[Beowulf]]'', a ''[[Gutenberg Bible]]'', [[Geoffrey Chaucer]]'s ''[[Canterbury Tales]]'', [[Thomas Malory]]'s ''[[Le Morte d'Arthur]]'' ([[King Arthur]]), [[Captain Cook]]'s journal, [[Jane Austen]]'s ''[[The History of England (Jane Austen)|History of England]]'', [[Charlotte Brontë]]'s ''[[Jane Eyre]]'', [[Lewis Carroll]]'s ''[[Alice's Adventures Under Ground]]'', [[Rudyard Kipling]]'s ''[[Just So Stories]]'', [[Charles Dickens]]'s ''[[Nicholas Nickleby]]'', [[Virginia Woolf]]'s ''[[Mrs Dalloway]]'' and a room devoted solely to ''[[Magna Carta]]''.[]

In addition to the permanent exhibition, there are frequent thematic exhibitions which has covered [[maps]],[] sacred texts[] and now the history of the [[English language]].[]

== Business and IP Centre ==
In May 2005, the British Library received a grant of £1 million from the [[London Development Agency]] to change two of its reading rooms into the Business & IP Centre. The Centre was opened in March 2006.[] It holds arguably the most comprehensive collection of business and [[intellectual property]] (IP) material in the United Kingdom and is the official library of the [[UK Intellectual Property Office]].

The collection is divided up into four main information areas: [[market research]], company information, trade directories, and [[Magazine|journals]]. It is free of charge in hard copy and online via approximately 30 subscription databases. Registered readers can access the collection and the databases.[]

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.[]

Staff are trained to guide [[small and medium enterprise]]s (SME) and [[entrepreneurs]] to use the full range of resources.[]

== Sound archive ==
[[File:BL Sound Archive tapes-2.jpg|thumb|Tape players used in the British Library Sound Archives, 2009 photo.]]
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The British Library Sound Archive holds more than a million discs and 185,000 tapes.[] The collections come from all over the world and cover the entire range of recorded sound from music, drama and literature to oral history and wildlife sounds, stretching back over more than 100 years. The Sound Archive's online catalogue is updated daily.

It is also possible to listen to recordings from the collection in selected Reading Rooms in the Library through their ''SoundServer''[] and ''Listening and Viewing Service'', which is based in the Rare Books & Music Reading Room.[]

In 2006 the Library launched a new online resource [[Archival Sound Recordings]] which makes over 4,200 hours of the Sound Archive's recordings available online for UK higher and further education.[]

== Newspapers ==
[[Image:British Library Newspapers.JPG|thumb|British Library Newspapers, Colindale]]
The British Library Newspapers section is based in [[Colindale]] in North London.[] The Library has an almost complete collection of British and Irish newspapers since 1840. This is partly because of the legal deposit legislation of 1869, which required newspapers to supply a copy of each edition of a newspaper to the library. 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 45 km of shelves. In May 2010 a ten year programme of digitization of the newspaper archives with commercial partner DC Thompson subsidiary Brightsolid.[][]

Among the collections are the [[Thomason Tracts]], containing 7,200 17th century newspapers,[] and the [[Burney Collection]], featuring newspapers from the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century.[] The Thomason Tracts and Burney collections are held at St Pancras, and are available in digital facsimile.

The section also has extensive records of non-British newspapers in languages that use the [[Latin alphabet|Latin]] and [[Cyrillic alphabet]]s. The Library's substantial holdings of newspapers in the languages of Asia and the Middle East may be accessed at the Library's reading rooms at St. Pancras.

== Philatelic Collections ==
[[File:Philatelic collections 1110902 1110905.jpg|thumb|right|Philatelic collections]]
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The [[British Library Philatelic Collections]] are held at St. Pancras. The Collections were established in 1891 with the donation of the [[Thomas Tapling|Tapling]] collection,[] they steadily developed and now comprise over 25 major collections and a number of smaller ones, encompassing a wide-range of disciplines. The collections include [[postage stamp|postage]] and [[revenue stamp]]s, [[postal stationery]], [[essay (philately)|essays]], [[proofreading|proofs]], [[cover (philately)|covers]] and entries, "[[cinderella stamp]]" material, specimen issues, [[airmail]]s, some [[postal history]] materials, official and private [[postal system|posts]], etc., for almost all countries and periods.[]

An extensive display of material from the collections is on exhibit, which may be 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.[]
[[File:British Library Gate Shadow.jpg|thumb|The entrance gate and its own shadow. The gate was designed by [[Lida Cardozo|Lida]] and [[David Kindersley]].]]
As well as these collections, the library actively acquires literature on the subject. This makes the British Library one of the world's prime philatelic research centres. The Head Curator of the Philatelic Collections is [[David Beech]].[]

== Highlights of the collections ==
Highlights selected by the British Museum include:[]
* The [[Diamond Sutra]], the world's earliest dated printed book[] printed in 868 during the [[Tang Dynasty]]
* The [[Lindisfarne Gospels]]
* Two [[Gutenberg Bible]]s
* Two 1215 copies of [[Magna Carta]]
* The sole surviving [[Nowell Codex|manuscript copy]] of the poem ''[[Beowulf]]''[]
* The [[Codex Arundel]], one of [[Leonardo da Vinci]]'s notebooks.
* [[William Tyndale]]'s 1534 English translation ''New Testament'', the personal copy of [[Anne Boleyn]].[]
* Manuscript of ''[[Alice's Adventures Under Ground]]'' by [[Lewis Carroll]] (given to the British Library by a consortium of American bibliophiles "in recognition of Britain's courage in facing Hitler before America came into the war")

== Collections of manuscripts ==
* [[Arundel collection]]
* [[Cotton Library]]
* [[Harleian Collection]]
* [[King's Library]]

There are also "Additional Manuscripts" series, which covers manuscripts that are not part of the named collections, and contains all manuscripts gifted, purchased or bequested to the Library since 1756.[]

== Transport connections ==
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| rowspan="2" | National Rail {{rail-interchange|gb|rail}}
| King's Cross {{access icon}}
| [[East Coast (train operating company)|East Coast]], [[First Capital Connect]], [[First Hull Trains]], [[Grand Central Railway|Grand Central]]
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| St Pancras {{access icon}}
| [[East Midland Trains]], [[Eurostar]], [[First Capital Connect]], [[Southeastern (train operating company)#Highspeed|Southeastern]]
|}

== See also ==
* [[British literature]]
* [[British Museum Reading Room]]
* [[Friends of the British Library]]
* [[Incunabula Short Title Catalogue]]
* [[Lawrence Durrell Collection]]
* [[National Archives (UK)|National Archives]]
* [[National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program]]
* [[National Library of Scotland]]
* [[National Library of Wales]]
* [[National Preservation Office]]
* [[British Library Sound Archive|National Sound Archive]]
* [[Theatre Archive Project]]

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==Further reading==
* Alan Day: ''Inside the British Library''. Library Association, London 1998, ISBN 1-85604-280-4
* Philip Howard: ''The British Library, a treasure of knowledge''. Scala, London 2008, ISBN 978-1-85759-375-4
* Colin St John Wilson: ''The design and construction of the British Library''. British Library, London 1998, ISBN 0-7123-0658-7

== External links ==
* [http://www.bl.uk/ The British Library homepage]
* [http://catalogue.bl.uk/F/?func=file&file_name=login-bl-list The British Library Catalogue] (including newspapers)
* [http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelprestype/prbooks/georgeiiicoll/george3kingslibrary.html The King's Library] contained within The British Library
* [http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/hightours/diamsutra/ The World's Earliest Dated Printed Book]
* [http://www.bl.uk/timeline Timelines: sources from history], an interactive history timeline that explores collection items chronologically, from medieval times to the present day
* [http://www.bl.uk/bipc The Business & IP Centre homepage]
* [http://www.bl.uk/learning/ British Library Learning homepage]
* [http://newspapers.bl.uk/blcs/ British Library newspapers 1800-1900 online]

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British Library - Revision history

Beza 1598 at 14:39, 8 March 2016

Greek Textus Receptus at 23:38, 8 February 2011

Greek Textus Receptus: New page: The '''British Library''' is the national library of the United Kingdom,^[] and one of the world's largest libraries in terms of total number of items. The library is a major...

British Library - Revision history

Beza 1598 at 14:39, 8 March 2016

Greek Textus Receptus at 23:38, 8 February 2011

Greek Textus Receptus: New page: The '''British Library''' is the national library of the United Kingdom,[] and one of the world's largest libraries in terms of total number of items. The library is a major...

Greek Textus Receptus: New page: The '''British Library''' is the national library of the United Kingdom,^[] and one of the world's largest libraries in terms of total number of items. The library is a major...