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	British Library - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and is one of the world's most significant research libraries, holding over 150 million items (more than any other library in the world).
		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).
		The British Library is the only one that is entitled to receive a copy of everything within one month of publication; the other five have to wait for up to one year.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_Library (1507 words)

	Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - British Library
		The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and one of the world's largest research libraries, holding over 150 million items and adding some 3 million every year.
		British Library Newspapers is open to the public and is located in Colindale in North London.
		The library also holds the Oriental and India Office Collections (OIOC), 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.
	fact-archive.com /encyclopedia/British_Library (1084 words)

	British Museum Reading Room - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		This function has now been moved to the new British Library building at St Pancras, London, but the Reading Room remains in its original form.
		In the 2001 Japanese anime OVA Read or Die, the Reading Room is used as the secret entrance to the British Library's fictional "Special Operations Division." Alfred Hitchcock used the Reading Room and the dome of the British Museum as a location for the climax of his first sound film Blackmail (1929).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_Museum_Reading_Room (337 words)

	ODLIS: Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science
		In library cataloging, a term used in the physical description area of the bibliographic record to describe: (1) two maps that are versions of the same work in two different languages, printed on alternate sides of a single sheet; or (2) two parts of a bilingual atlas published tête-bêche in a single volume.
		In Library of Congress Classification, the letters of the English alphabet are used (alphabetic notation), minus the letters O and I, which are easily mistaken for the numerals zero and one.
		Library and archival collections are enriched by such gifts, which are often acknowledged by the use of special bookplates, plaques, and memorial names, depending on the size of the gift.
	lu.com /odlis/odlis_b.cfm (10243 words)

	British and Irish Collections: Overviews of the Collections (European Reading Room, Library of Congress)
		The Law Library's British Appeal Papers consists of records from the House of Lords, records of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, and the Colonial Appeals Papers.
		British legal cases covering the reigns of Henry VI to Elizabeth I, charters from the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries, and genealogical records from several English counties are other important documents in this collection.
		Prepared by British military engineers and forming the collection of William Faden, a major eighteenth century map publisher, these manuscript and printed maps are an important part of the Library's materials on the Revolutionary War period.
	www.loc.gov /rr/european/coll/brit.html (3310 words)

	British Library - Voyager, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and is one of the world's most significant research libraries, holding over 150 million items and adding some 3 million every year.
		The library includes copies of the majority of the books found in the Library of Congress (but not the other media and manuscripts), along with a substantial additional collection of international items and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.
		Like the Library of Congress, these libraries have retained copies of every publication in the English language over the last 100 years which is deemed significant.
	voyager.in /British_Library (1537 words)

	British Library - Facts from the Encyclopedia - Yahoo! Education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Long a part of the British Museum, the library collection originated in 1753 when the government purchased the Harleian Library, the library of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, and groups of manuscripts.
		The library remained a part of the museum until 1973 when it was made a separate entity by act of Parliament.
		Traditionally a nonlending reference library with manuscript and printed books divisions, the library now has large lending and bibliographic departments and is the copyright depository library for the United Kingdom.
	messenger.yahooligans.com /reference/encyclopedia/entry/BritLib (283 words)

	The British Museum: Libraries and Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Department of Libraries and Archives was established in April 2001, under the general direction of the David Eccles Librarian, to extend and develop library and archive services throughout the Museum.
		Please contact the British Library unless your enquiry specifically concerns the British Museum and its history and antiquarian and cultural collections.
		The library is particularly strong on the history of the British Museum and holds a copy of every BM publication.
	www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk /libraries (841 words)

	RIBA Library (British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects)
		The RIBA Trust is delighted to announce that the British Architectural Library has purchased the Codex Stosch, one of the most significant 16th century collections of architectural drawings of the great buildings of ancient Rome, produced by Giovanni Battista da Sangallo (1496-1548), a member of Raphael’s circle.
		The British Architectural Library is very grateful to the Earl of Rosse for kindly depositing on loan to the library the original manuscript of Miscelanea Structura Curiosa by the Irish architect Samuel Chearnley (1717 or 1718 - 1749), dating from 1745.
		The Library was established in 1834 as the library of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA Library).
	www.architecture.com /go/Architecture/Reference/Library_898.html (944 words)

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		The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom.
		The Library was founded in 1972 by an Act of Parliament which brought together eight institutions including the British Museum Library, and the National Lending Library for Science and Technology.
		The UK legal deposit libraries are the The British Library, the National Library of Scotland, the National Library of Wales, the Bodleian Library, Cambridge University Library, and Trinity College Dublin.
	www.egovmonitor.com /node/1638 (1084 words)

	British Library throws out thousands of books and historic newspapers
		The library board left the selection of material to be junked to junior staff.
		Richard Cheffins, head of the British Library's social policy information service, said the library had abandoned its previous policy due to the expense this entailed.
		But this was denied by Ed King, who heads the British Library's Newspaper Library, who said that the titles being considered for disposal included only five Russian Imperial newspaper titles, and were mostly incomplete runs.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2000/aug2000/lib-a14.shtml (604 words)

	The British Jigsaw Puzzle Library
		The British Jigsaw Puzzle Library has been in existence since 1933 when Lord Craigavon, an addictive solver of puzzles, wished to lend his puzzles to friends and introduced a subscription charge to cover costs.
		Elsie felt it was her duty to carry on the library and what finally made up her mind, for some obscure reason, was a baby's shoe in a parcel.
		The Library has only had seven owners throughout its sixty-seven years, and the current owners are dedicated to keeping the Library in excellent condition, as all of the previous Jigsaw Puzzle Library owners were.
	www.britishjigsawpuzzlelibrary.co.uk (411 words)

	British Library
		The British Library, national library of the UK is relatively young.
		To the library community and the public at large, the best known component of the new national library consisted of the library departments of the British Museum.
		The British Library was formally opened by HM the Queen in June 1998.
	www.georgianhousehotel.co.uk /british_library.htm (505 words)

	OVERVIEW - RESEARCH LIBRARY CATALOGUE - BC ARCHIVES
		The core of the BC Archives Research Library is a special collection (Northwest Collection) of rare and early publications.
		The library also includes books,and pamphlets documenting British Columbia history, as well as technical and professional publications required by Branch staff for their work.
		Library materials are consulted in the reading room, 655 Belleville Street, Victoria, British Columbia, and do not circulate.
	www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca /library/general/library.htm (487 words)

	British Library
		Following on the runaway success of their exhibition 'The Lie of the Land', the British Library's Map Library has mounted a new exhibition in the foyer to the reading room.
		If only the architects of the new British Library had any appreciation of the visual appeal of maps, they might have installed more than two cases, but it is good to see the Map Library continuing to come up with interesting displays in such limited space.
		The accompanying text is reproduced by permission of the Map Library, the British Library.
	www.mapforum.com /15/blmap.htm (1736 words)

	BRITISH LIBRARY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Library school students are deterred from public librarianship by poor career prospects, low salaries and lack of access to information technology.
		Bob was a member of the ASLIB consultancy which carried out the DNH Public Library review and has also undertaken a number of major funded research projects including work on standards for The Library Association and Quality management for the British Library.
		Golder (1996) showed that public library managers recognised the need to be innovative and proactive in meeting the challenges of the future, but also acknowledged serious constraints.
	cplis.shef.ac.uk /workforceproposal.htm (3081 words)

	British Library Encyclopedia @ WorthAClick.com (Worth a Click) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		However, since 1997 the main collection has been housed in a single new building in Euston Road next to.
		The Library has come under criticism for admitting undergraduate students 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.
		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.
	www.worthaclick.com /encyclopedia/British_Library (1276 words)

	ProCurve Networking by HP - Case Studies - British Library
		Opened in June 1998, the new British Library is the largest public building constructed in the UK during the twentieth century.
		Every day The British Library receives between two and four thousand visitors and is committed to providing services that meet the needs of its various user groups.
		Consequently, The British Library recently launched a wireless Internet connectivity service, principally to meet users' requirements to access emails from their laptops while they work.
	www.hp.com /rnd/case_studies/british_library.htm (905 words)

	Public Library Services: Ministry of Education
		Released in late 2004, Libraries Without Walls: The World Within Your Reach is a vision for public libraries in British Columbia.
		This plan is the result of 18 months of intense consultation with the library and municipal communities, outlining clear directions for service development over the next three years and reflecting a commitment to strengthening library services across BC.
		The Public Library Services Branch annually collects a wide variety of statistics from BC public libraries and publishes them as a booklet called British Columbia Public Libraries Statistics, which is sent to each public library, municipality and regional district in BC.
	www.bced.gov.bc.ca /pls (513 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Technology \| British Library gets wireless net
		Visitors to the British Library will be able to get wireless internet access alongside the extensive information available in its famous reading rooms.
		The majority of visitors wanted to be able to access their e-mail as well as the British Library catalogue.
		The Library receives between three and four million requests from remote users around the world each year.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/technology/4020241.stm (390 words)

	British library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The British Library has begun the task of preserving the country's digital heritage...
		The British Library will soon be able to store web pages and e-mails alongsideother documents in its archive.
		The life of Captain Cook and his contemporaries as represented by the collectionsof the British Library, the Captain Cook Birthplace Museum, british library.
	www.icareaboutmyhealth.com /british-library.html (280 words)

	British Library - Services Misc Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		The British Library is the national library of the UK and one of the world's greatest...
		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...
		One of my favourite places in London is the British Library located near St Pancreas station.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /services-misc/british-library (249 words)

	British Library Research Archive - Welcome to the British Library Research Archive
		The British Library Research Archive is a database of papers and articles focussing on research by British Library staff.
		Papers from conferences organised and hosted by the British Library may also be included.
		British Library Research Archive is running on GNU EPrints archive-creating software, which generates eprints archives that are compliant with the Open Archives Protocol for Metadata Harvesting OAI 1.1 and 2.0.
	sherpa.bl.uk (230 words)

	VRW: Printed Sources
		Faculty and graduate students ("postgrads," in British parlance) need to bring a recommendation letter on their university's stationery from "someone in authority" there confirming the name and status of the applicant and outlining the reasons for needing to use the BL.
		The most powerful tool available to BL users around the world is the new British Library Public Catalogue, a web interface to all of the library's catalogues that allows across-the-board searches as well as ordering of photocopies.
		In 2004, JISC and the British Library announced a joint partnership to digitize entire runs of dozens of newspapers published between 1800 and 1900.
	victorianresearch.org /libraries.html (7021 words)

	British Library Catalogues on the Web
		The British Library Integrated Catalogue - the catalogue of the Library's major collections held at its main sites in both London and Boston Spa, containing records for over 12 million items dating back to the 15th century.
		National Sound Archive - a catalogue covering almost two-and-a-half million recordings held by the British Library National Sound Archive (NSA) in all genres, from pop, jazz, classical and world music to wildlife sounds, oral history, drama, literature, language and dialect.
		Newspaper Library Catalogue - the Library's catalogue of over 50,000 newspapers, some dating back to the 17th century.
	www.britishlibrary.net /webcats.html (371 words)

	IUB Libraries: British Library Catalogues (BLC)
		"The Library's services are based on its outstanding collections, developed over 250 years, of over 150 million items, representing every age of written civilisation, every written language and every aspect of human thought.
		The British Library Public Catalogue provides information about the contents of the Library's major holdings.
		When researching a particular topic, it is advisable to contact the subject area involved in order to ensure that you have discovered all possible resources, since some may only appear in printed catalogues or indexes.
	www.libraries.iub.edu /index.php?pageId=400&resourceId=38584 (240 words)

	librarian.net » British Library
		The British Library is quite near to King’s Cross station and I’m sure many people are concerned for their welfare in addition to the many others affected by today’s tragedy.
		They posted a brief update to their main page, which I think is something that all libraries should be able to do in case of an emergency.
		Oddly this isn’t the only story about the British Library with the word tragedy in the headlines today.
	www.librarian.net /stax/1382 (125 words)

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