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We're enhancing our storage facilities in Boston Spa and some of our collections are being moved to enable this work. As a result, some of the items you requested might not be available while they're being moved.

Published date:

8 March 2022

We’re transforming our Boston Spa site, where over 70% of our collection is housed. We need to move over 100 linear km of collections of items to make way for the construction of new and improved storage. We are trying to limit the impact of this work as much as possible.

Right now the Report Microform Collection (also known as RMS) isn’t available. Items affected will show as ‘temporarily unavailable’ in our main catalogue, Explore the British Library. If you have any concerns about access to items please get in touch with us.

We hope to have the RMS collection back on site in three years, but with a transformation programme of this size there’s a chance it may take longer.

Access to other material in our document supply collection may also be limited over the next few years while we improve our storage facilities

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Contact us

If you have any queries contact our Customer Service Department:

Quick chat: Quick Chat is available Monday to Friday: 09.30 – 16:00.
e-mail: customer-services@bl.uk
phone: You can contact our Customer Services Team by telephone on +44 (0)1937 546060 during the hours of 09.00 – 16.30, Monday to Friday.

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