The British Museums domed Reading Room is well known in intellectual circles, and was designed in the 1850s at the instigation of Sir Anthony Panizzi, then Chief Librarian. Originally the Reading room was open to the general public, but, due to overcrowding, a pass was required for admission. In addition to Vladimir Lenin, other famous readers in this exclusive place of study included Karl Marx, and the writers Charles Dickens, George Bernard Shaw and Virginia Woolf.
The British Library Document Supply Centre currently administers a stock of over 260,000 journal titles, over 3 million books, almost 500,000 conference proceedings and nearly 5,000,000 scientific reports. Its 20,000customers from all over the world make about 4,000,000 requests every year.
Thanks to the Internet, customers can now access information and services online as document supply is achieved via electronic means. The British Librarys website is www.bl.uk.
The British Library
Commenced operation: 1st July 1973
---Library of the British Museum
---Patent Office Library
Four main constituent parts: 1.__________________________
----British Library Document
Supply Centre
British Museum founded in : 2. ___________________________
----books,
-----journals and magazines
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