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London Flats for Rent
The Library also has a book storage depot in Woolwich,
south-east London. The new library was designed London Flats for Rent specially for the purpose by the architect
Colin St. John Wilson. Facing Euston Road is a large
piazza that includes pieces of public art, such as large
sculptures by Eduardo Paolozzi (a bronze statue based
on William Blake's study of Isaac Newton) and Antony
Gormley. It is the largest public building constructed
in the United Kingdom in the 20th century.
In the middle of the building is a London Flats for Rent four-storey glass tower containing the King's
Library, with 65,000 printed volumes along with other
pamphlets, manuscripts and maps collected by King George
III between 1763 and 1820.
Since 2000 the Chief Executive of the British Library
has been London Flats for Rent Lynne Brindley.
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London Flats for Rent, Legal deposit
Interior of the British Library, with the smoked
glass wall of the King's Library in the background.
An Act of Parliament in 1911 established the
principle of the legal deposit, ensuring that
the London Flats for Rent British Library,
along with five other libraries in Great Britain
and Ireland, is entitled to receive a free copy
of every item published in the United Kingdom.
The other five libraries are: the Bodleian Library
at Oxford; the London Flats for Rent University
Library at Cambridge; the Trinity College Library
at Dublin; and the National Libraries of Scotland
and Wales. The British Library is the only one
that must automatically receive a copy of every
item published in the UK; the others are entitled
to these items, but must specifically request
them London Flats for Rent from the publisher
after learning that they have been or are about
to be published, a task done centrally by the
Agency for the Legal Deposit Libraries.
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