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The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. Based in London, it is the largest library in the world, with an estimated collection

virtual space, or both (hybrid). A library's collection can include books, periodicals, newspapers, manuscripts, films, maps, prints, documents, microform

the oldest libraries in Europe. With over 13 million printed items, it is the second-largest library in Britain after the British Library. Under the Legal

country. Thus, national libraries are those libraries whose community is the nation at large. Examples include the British Library in London, and the Bibliothèque

a British explorer and scholar. The library obtained the collection in 1959, containing nearly 5000 items including books, journals, pamphlets, maps, and

collections" of the British Museum in 1753. It is now one of the major collections of the Department of Manuscripts of the British Library. Cotton was of a

books and 3 maps, was housed in the new Capitol. In 1814, the majority of this first iteration of the Library of Congress burned as British troops sacked

and one million maps. In Canada, academic libraries have been more recently developed than in other nations. The first academic library in Canada, opened

A digital library (also called an online library, an internet library, a digital repository, a library without walls, or a digital collection) is an online

the largest collections of archives, portraits, maps, and photographic images in Wales. The Library is also home to the national collection of Welsh