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idiosyncratic or unfashionable. In 2019, under pressure for space, the decision was taken to reverse this policy, and to introduce a new strategy of withdrawing from the collections some journal and government publication material now available online, some foreign language journals, duplicate copies of books, and other material considered obsolete; and also to move some low-use material to off-site storage.
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238:, where he was often unable to find a seat (obliging him to perch on ladders), where he complained that the enforced close confinement with his fellow readers gave him a "museum headache", where the books were unavailable for loan, and where he found the library's collections of pamphlets and other material relating to the
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November 1981 the annual subscription was £60. Following the acquisition of T. S. Eliot House, from 2008 the subscription was significantly increased from £210 to £375.
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Library a new Royal Charter, which revoked both the 1933 and 1968 charters. It has its own byelaws and the power to make or amend its rules. It has a royal patron, an elected president and vice presidents, and is administered by an elected board of a maximum of 15 trustees, including the
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Library launched its Student Prize, a writing competition open to final-year undergraduates at higher education institutions in the UK. The theme was "The future of Britain lies with the right-hand side of the brain", and the winner was announced in March 2012 as Ben Mason, a student at
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as "curiously eclectic". The main reading room is on the first floor; and above this three tall windows light three floors of bookstack. Another four floors of bookstacks were built to the rear. In 1920–22, an additional seven-storey bookstack was built further back still, again designed by
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Library acquired Duchess House, a four-storey 1970s office building adjoining the north side of the existing site, which increased overall capacity by 30%. The building was renamed T. S. Eliot House in 2008. The opportunity was taken for a major rationalisation and overhaul of the
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were sold. With those exceptions, it was formerly library policy to retain virtually all items acquired since its foundation, on the grounds that, as books are never entirely superseded, and therefore never redundant, the collections should not be weeded of material merely because it was old,
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One of the pleasures and privileges of belonging to the London
Library is wandering through its labyrinthine book-stacks with no particular aim in mind. Anyone who wants to find a particular one of the million or so books or 2,500 periodicals can do so easily enough in the catalogue, but
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I hesitated for a moment whether to go to the "C" for chess section first, or the "I" for
Iceland section, but chose the former, because it was nearer. There were about twenty to thirty books on chess on the shelves, and the first that caught my eye was a bulky volume with the title,
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commented that "The closing of this most worthy institution would be a tragedy". Financial donations reached £17,000, and an auction of books, manuscripts and artworks on 22 June 1960 raised over £25,000 – enough to clear debts and legal expenses of £20,000. At the sale some
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Library was historically known as the Librarian and Secretary, and later simply as Librarian. With the appointment of Philip Marshall in 2017, the title was changed to Director. The post has been held by the following:
427:. The identification of several rare books put up for auction as having been stolen from the Library led the police to investigate Jacques and to his eventual prosecution and conviction. Security measures at the Library have since been improved.
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greater part of the library's premises. Staff activities were concentrated in T. S. Eliot House (freeing up space in the older buildings for book storage and members' facilities); a new reading room was inserted in a
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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. On 6 July 2004,
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in 1895 as "admittedly the worst house in the Square". The Library rented the house from 1845, but in 1879 bought the freehold. In the early years, to defray costs, some of the rooms were let to the
603:– especially in Science and Miscellaneous – is so idiosyncratic, it doesn't conform to the systems that populate my own mind. So going in search of a book becomes a journey of discovery in itself.
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development of the collections, bequeathing their personal libraries, donating copies of their own books, serving on the Books Selection Committee, making suggestions for acquisition and more.
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and annuals on a wide range of subjects are also held in the collections. Special collections include subjects of hunting, field sports, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, and of Jewish interest.
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1036:(2015), the protagonist, Dr Hendricks, obtains key information about his host from a book posted to him in Paris by the Library.
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Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur (1928). "The Illustrious Client".
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1798:Kneebone, Roger (2015). "Uncertain Territories".
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1054:(1991), one of the central characters, played by
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2698:. BBC Radio 4: Today. 29 June 2010
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2078:. Haworth Tompkins. Archived from
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2028:"Timeline: A fascinating history"
1872:. London: Macmillan. p. 127.
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1890:Sheppard, F. H. W., ed. (1960).
1869:The History of St James's Square
1098:Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
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2614:Cochrane, John George (1847).
2413:(describes the London Library)
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2268:(2015). "Love in the stacks".
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1704:10.1017/S0307472200014310
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2620:(2nd ed.). London.
2405:"Circulating Libraries"
2376:www.londonlibrary.co.uk
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1981:Wells 1991, pp. 159–66.
1956:London Library Magazine
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1817:Murray, Stuart (2009).
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1944:Wells 1991, pp. 221–2.
1917:Wells 1991, pp. 69–70.
1534:Wells 1991, pp. 26–31.
1525:Wells 1991, pp. 24–31.
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1760:Grindea 1978, p. 91.
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