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
Available at 36 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. 785-793
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
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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