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The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. Based in London, it is the largest library in the world, with an estimated collection of over 200 million items from multiple countries. As a legal deposit library, it receives copies of all books produced in the United Kingdom and Ireland, as well as a significant proportion of overseas titles distributed in the United Kingdom. The library operates as a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. .. more
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The British National Bibliography (BNB) records the publishing activity of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland since 1950.
The BNB is currently available on the Share Family beta portal as linked data: bl.natbib-lod.org
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Applications are now open for international mid to senior library and archive professionals to join us in July 2026 for the International Library Leaders Programme.
Learn more bit.ly/BL-ILLP
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Note the pause on ordering items if you're planning to use the reading rooms Dec 1 - 7!
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One last call out before we email people preparing posters for #FF2025 - any recommendations for fast, reliable printers near the @britishlibrary.bsky.social in St Pancras?
All are welcome! Sign up at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/universal-viewer-uv-annual-conference-2025-tickets-1967619306312 to catch up with recent work and learn about what's next
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To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches.
Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...
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To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches.
Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...
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Thanks Harry Lloyd and @adi-keinan.bsky.social for your work on this! And all the curators, metadata folk and crowdsourcing volunteers who helped earlier versions of this work
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