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British Library
 British Library ... national archive of monographs and serials received by legal deposit, rich holdings of books and serials from overseas, the national archive of British and overseas newspapers, western and oriental manuscripts from the beginning of writing to the present, the archives, library, prints, drawings, and photographs assembled by the former India Office, one of the world's finest collections of printed and manuscript music, one of the world's most important collections of printed and manuscript maps, internationally important holdings of philatelic material, one of the world's largest archives of sound recordings and videograms, business information in many forms, the world's largest collection of patent specifications, the world's largest collection of conference proceedings, millions of UK and overseas reports and theses in microform. Address: The British Library at St Pancras, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DBNewest Review: ... months. If you want periodicals any older than this, as I frequently do, they have to be ordered in from the British Library's collection. Unfortunately, this is where the Library begins to fall down. The science journal collection of the British Library isn't stored on-site, as are Humanities books and periodicals, but over at their off-site storage site in Aldwych. This means that ... more ... you have to order the periodicals, and wait for them to be delivered. This can take several hours, and unless you order them at the very beginning
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British Library: Who'd be a scientist? (2076 words)
by MykReeve - written on 15/05/01 (Very useful, 89 readings)
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If you're a scientist, working in London who needs to get hold of an older scientific paper from an obscure journal, then the easiest way to get it is to pop along to the British Library. Or is it? The British Library is the UK's national library, it’s funded by the government to be the custodian of every book in print in the United Kingdom, and every issue of every periodical printed here (and many printed abroad). As a potential source of information, it's incomparable. The library has an exceptional collection of books, periodicals, manuscripts, stamps, patents, sound recordings, printed music and maps... but how easy is it to actually get ...
Reading Rules! (485 words)
by edie - written on 10/05/01 (Very useful, 122 readings)
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One of my favourite places in London is the British Library located near St Pancreas station. Dating back to 1753, this was previously part of the British museum in Bloomsbury. But because of a lack of space in 1997 it was moved out to a new purpose-built location in North London. Although the old circular reading room (the haunt of the likes of Karl Marx, Freud and many others has now been restored to its 19th century glory and can be visited as part of the Great Court in the British Museum. The library's new red brick building not the most atmospheric place to house the ancient collection although it has the benefit of having a lot more space. It is still ...
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