British Library

The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and is the world's largest research library, holding over 150 million items and adding some 3 million every year. As of March 2004 the library holds 11.2 million monographs and receives more than 41,500 serials.

External links

• The British Library homepage
• The British Library Catalogue
• The King's Library contained within The British Library
• The 'Bibliotheca Universalis' homepage
• The World's Earliest Dated Printed Book
• Turning the Pages, digitizations of a few important books, with explanations (Macromedia Shockwave format)
• The British Library Act, 1972