British Librar

British Librar
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Kintra	Unitit Kinrick
Type	Naitional leebrary
Established	1 July 1973 (50 years ago)
Location	Euston Road; Lunnon, NW1
Coordinates	51°31′46″N 0°07′37″W / 51.52944°N 0.12694°WCoordinates: 51°31′46″N 0°07′37″W / 51.52944°N 0.12694°W
Branches	1 (Boston Spa, Wast Yorkshire)
Collection
Items collectit	Beuks, jurnals, newspapers, magazines, soond an muisic recordins, patents, databases, maps, stamps, prents, drawings an manuscripts
Size	170–200 million+ items; 13,950,000 beuks; 824,101 serial teetles; 351,116 manuscripts (single an vollums); 8,266,276 philatelic items; 4,347,505 cartographic items; 1,607,885 muisic scores; 6,000,000 soond recordins
Legal deposit	Yes, providit in law bi: Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003 (Unitit Kinrick); Copyright and Related Rights Act, 2000 (Republic o Ireland);
Access and use
Access requirements	Appen tae onyane wi a need tae uise the collections an services
Other information
Budget	£142 million
Director	Roly Keating (chief executive, syne 12 September 2012)
Wabsteid	bl.uk

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The British Librar (Inglis: British Library) is the naitional librar o the Unitit Kinrick^[6] an the lairgest librar in the warld bi nummer o items catalogued. It is estimate tae haud mair nor 170–200 million^[7]^[8]^[3]^[4] items frae mony kintras.

References

↑ Wight, Colin. "Facts and figures". bl.uk. Archived frae the original on 28 August 2017. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
↑ "BL Accounts 2019" (PDF). bl.uk. Retrieved 22 Julie 2019.
↑ ^a ^b "BL Exhibition Notes". bl.uk. Archived frae the original on 9 August 2019. Retrieved 11 Juin 2018.
↑ ^a ^b "How Big is the UK Web Archive?". bl.uk. Archived frae the original on 31 August 2018. Retrieved 11 Juin 2018.
↑ ^a ^b British Library thirty-seventh annual report and accounts 2009/10. 26 Julie 2010. ISBN 978-0-10-296664-0.
↑ "Using the British Library" Archived 2021-10-23 at the Wayback Machine. British Library. Retrieved 17 April 2014.
↑ Wight, Colin. "Facts and figures". bl.uk. Archived frae the original on 28 August 2017. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
↑ "BL Accounts 2019" (PDF). bl.uk. Retrieved 22 Julie 2019.

[1] Wight, Colin. "Facts and figures". bl.uk. Archived frae the original on 28 August 2017. Retrieved 3 September 2017.

[2] "BL Accounts 2019" (PDF). bl.uk. Retrieved 22 Julie 2019.

[BL_Exhibition_Notes-3] "BL Exhibition Notes". bl.uk. Archived frae the original on 9 August 2019. Retrieved 11 Juin 2018.

[How_Big_is_the_UK_Web_Archive-4] "How Big is the UK Web Archive?". bl.uk. Archived frae the original on 31 August 2018. Retrieved 11 Juin 2018.

[ARA-5] British Library thirty-seventh annual report and accounts 2009/10. 26 Julie 2010. ISBN 978-0-10-296664-0.

[6] "Using the British Library" Archived 2021-10-23 at the Wayback Machine. British Library. Retrieved 17 April 2014.

[7] Wight, Colin. "Facts and figures". bl.uk. Archived frae the original on 28 August 2017. Retrieved 3 September 2017.

[8] "BL Accounts 2019" (PDF). bl.uk. Retrieved 22 Julie 2019.

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