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The Library holds an almost complete collection of British and Irish newspapers since 1840. This is partly because of the legal deposit legislation of 1869, which required newspapers to supply a copy of each edition of a newspaper to the library. London editions of national daily and Sunday newspapers are complete back to 1801.
The Scottish Central Library, Edinburgh. The National Central Library was a library at 14 Store Street, [1] London W.C.1, in the 20th century. It was a tutorial system and a scholarly library for working people who were not connected to an academic institution. [2] The founder of the library was Albert Mansbridge.
The National Art Library (NAL) is a major reference library, situated in the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), a museum of decorative arts in London. The NAL holds the UK's most comprehensive collection of both books as art and books about art, which includes many genres and time periods. [ 1 ]
Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine Ukraine: Kyiv: 15.5 million [40] 500,000 [40] 50.3 million ₴ [41] 900 [40] Yale Library United States: New Haven, Connecticut, one location for students, staff and no free borrowing access to the public 15.2 million [42] National Library of Iran Iran: Tehran
The London Library is a self-supporting, independent institution. It is a registered charity [4] whose sole aim is the advancement of education, learning, and knowledge. It was incorporated by Royal Charter on 13 June 1933, with a supplemental Royal Charter granted on 21 October 1988.
Research Libraries UK (RLUK) (formerly CURL) [1] comprises 35 university libraries, 3 national libraries, and the Wellcome Collection in the United Kingdom and Ireland. [2] Its aim is to increase the ability of research libraries to share resources among themselves.
A national library is that library which has the duty of collecting and preserving the literature of the nation within and outside the country. Thus, national libraries are those libraries whose community is the nation at large. Examples include the British Library in London, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris. [2] [3]
The British Library Sound Archive, formerly the British Institute of Recorded Sound; also known as the National Sound Archive (NSA), [1] in London, England is among the largest collections of recorded sound in the world, including music, spoken word and ambient recordings.