LONDON (Reuters Life!) - The British Library is re-housing part of its collection in a new facility that will hand responsibility for the storage and retrieval of seven million items to a robotic ...
The scanning race has started: Microsoft Corp. announced an agreement today to scan 25 million pages from the British Library’s collection that will eventually be made available on its MSN Book Search ...
The British Library will open a major exhibition on Agatha Christie next year. Poirot, Miss Marple, Murder on the Orient ...
Books on display include The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes, written by Elizabethan herbalist John Gerard. The ...
The British Library has announced it will posthumously reinstate gay poet and playwright Oscar Wilde’s reader pass after revoking it in 1895 due to his homosexuality. Known at the time as the British ...
Few of us are, and it made me wonder about the path ahead for national libraries. These great institutions date back to the ancient world — the first repositories of written material are in ...
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