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British Library

n
(Library Science & Bibliography) the British national library, formed in 1973 from the British Museum library and other national collections: housed mainly in the British Museum until 1997 when a purpose-built library in St Pancras, London, was completed
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The British Library, the UK's national library and one of the world's greatest research libraries, announced on Monday that it has acquired the archive of Granta, a UK literary magazine that was relaunched 40 years ago.
This will encourage more historians to write on the region, shedding new light on its past." As part of QNL's ongoing partnership with the British Library, an additional 900,000 pages of historical material on the Gulf from the British Library's collections, as well as medieval Arabic manuscripts on science, will be uploaded to the Digital Library over the coming three years.
Tribune News Network Doha As part of the Qatar Digital Library's (QDL) ongoing partnership with the British Library, an additional 900,000 pages of historical material on the Gulf from the British Library's collections, as well as medieval Arabic manuscripts on science, will be uploaded to the Digital Library over the coming three years, Qatar National Library (QNL) has said.
As part of the Library's ongoing partnership with the British Library, an additional 900,000 pages of historical material on the Gulf from the British Library's collections, as well as medieval Arabic manuscripts on science, will be uploaded to the Digital Library over the coming three years.
The delegation met with Roly Keating, Chief Executive of the British Library, as well as the British Library's research and development team, and curatorial team on July 5.
The displays were first launched in October last year, across 20 public UK libraries, in tandem with the Harry Potter: A History of Magic exhibition at the British Library in London.
The British Library is home to the UK Sound Archive, an extraordinary collection of over 6 million recordings.
The exhibition is the result of a cultural partnership between the Library of Birmingham and The British Library and features around 100 items relating to Shakespeare and his work, including books, films, posters and photographs and local treasures.
THE British Library is teaming up with the Library of Birmingham on a new cultural partnership which will include a special project to mark the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare.
London, United Kingdom, October 15, 2014 --(PR.com)-- Since June 2013 the British Library has been looking to deliver a 'universal player' that can render digital content stored in their Digital Library System and described in any of their strategic metadata repositories, suitable for use by researchers, learners and the public.
London, August 14 ( ANI ): A man using the British Library's wi-fi network was blocked from accessing an online version of Shakespeare's Hamlet, as the text featured 'violent content.'

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