Save the British Library
The research and educational functions of the British Library are currently under threat. The Treasury is demanding a 7\% cut in BL expenditure which will result in: a reduction in opening hours by on... continue reading »
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"Yet another demonstration of New Labour believing that education is only useful if it leads to making Britain economically viable. I do wonder if the numbskulls and philistines who concocted this plan assume that the internet (a resource riddled with erro"
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"This country's intellectual standards have already slipped far enough, without compromising them still further by discouraging people from visiting one of our greatest centres of learning inspiration."
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"I am from the US and find that the British Library's services are of tremendous value, not only to citizens of the UK but to the global research community."
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"The British Library is such a rich resource of information, rare in the extent available and open to all, we must keep it that way..."
"As a researcher, I have on many occasions had to use the facilities of the British Library and it has been both a smooth and useful event on each occasion. Reducing its funding is, obviously, detrimental to myself as an academic. The knock-on effects to s"
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"A knowledge economy requires knowledge. The successful knowledge economy will best manage its knowledge resources to make them as widely available to its population."
