A history of the British Museum Library, 1753-1973
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A history of the British Museum Library, 1753-1973
British Library, 1998
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Bibliography: p. 785-793
Includes index
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Description
Designed to coincide with the move to St Pancras in 1998, this is a comprehensive history of the British Museum Library, an institution regarded as a repository of knowledge and a cornerstone of scholarship. It deals with the growth of the Library from the 18th century to 1973, when the British Library absorbed the old British Museum Library. Each chapter has sections dealing with the the growth of the collections, their accommodation and cataloguing, and the reading rooms in which they have been made available. Full references to original sources are given and there are numerous illustrations and plans of the various buildings in which the collections have been preserved. Among the appendices is a list of well-known persons who have used the reading rooms.
Table of Contents
- The 18th century 1753-98
- Planta as Principal Librarian - the beginning of change 1799-1827
- parliamentary enquiries 1827-37
- Panizzi and Madden 1837-47
- a time of development 1847-56
- a time of consolidation 1857-75
- the contribution of Bond 1876-90
- Maunde Thompson and Kenyon 1891-1914
- the war of 1914-18 and the inter-war period 1914-39
- the war of 1939-45 and reconstruction 1939-58
- an end and a beginning 1959-73.
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