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The British Library was created on 1 July 1973 as a result of the British Library Act 1972. [13] 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, [14] the National Lending Library for Science and Technology and the British ...
Incunabula Short Title Catalogue. The Incunabula Short Title Catalogue (ISTC) is an electronic bibliographic database maintained by the British Library which seeks to catalogue all known incunabula. The database lists books by individual editions, recording standard bibliographic details for each edition as well as giving a brief census of ...
15 January: The British Library's main online catalogue is restored in a read-only format. Users are able to search the main catalogue, but the process of checking availability and ordering items is different. Access to key special collections is restored but for in-person visits only. [13] [14] [15] [16]
The series 1477–1799 with numbers per decade. The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) is a union short-title catalogue of works published between 1473 and 1800, in Britain and its former colonies, notably those in North America, and primarily in English, drawing on the collections of the British Library and other libraries in Britain and ...
E-Theses Online Service (EThOS) is a bibliographic database and union catalogue of electronic theses provided by the British Library, the National Library of the United Kingdom. [1][2][3][4] As of February 2022 EThOS provided access to over 500,000 doctoral theses awarded by over 140 UK higher education institutions, [5] with around 3,000 new ...
The Royal manuscripts are one of the "closed collections" of the British Library (i.e. historic collections to which new material is no longer added), consisting of some 2,000 manuscripts collected by the sovereigns of England in the " Old Royal Library " and given to the British Museum by George II in 1757. They are still catalogued with call ...
The Card Catalog at the Library of Congress. A library catalog (or library catalogue in British English) is a register of all bibliographic items found in a library or group of libraries, such as a network of libraries at several locations. A catalog for a group of libraries is also called a union catalog.
The British National Bibliography (BNB) was established at the British Museum in 1949 [1] to publish a list of the books, journals and serials that are published in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. [2] It also includes information on forthcoming titles. [3] This is the single most comprehensive listing of UK titles.