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Volume 47, Issue 3
1 May 1998
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Library Review
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Viewpoint| May 01 1998

I was there

Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-793X
Print ISSN: 0024-2535
© MCB UP Limited
1998
Library Review (1998) 47 (3): 79–82.
https://doi.org/10.1108/00242539810209203

Is an account of the author’s experiences as a library user on the first day of opening of the British Library at its new St Pancras site, 24 November 1997. Rates the services available favourably, and provides suggested further reading on the opening of the library, and the background to it.

Keywords: British Library, Public libraries
© MCB UP Limited
1998
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