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Update on remote ebook lending and UK PLR

08 June 2018

Registration extended to include remote loans of ebooks and e-audio books

Eccles British Library Writer's Award 2019 competi...

06 June 2018

Applications are invited for the 2019 Eccles British Library Writer's Award worth £20,000

British Library On Demand price changes on 1 Augus...

01 June 2018

The British Library annually reviews its On Demand prices and any changes come into practice from August 1.

FileOpen Document Delivery software has been withd...

01 June 2018

The FileOpen encryption option has been withdrawn and users have been automatically switched to DRM Lite.

Windrush: Songs in a Strange Land is now open

01 June 2018

We mark 70 years since the Empire Windrush carried hundreds of migrants to London

Hay Festival events live streamed to local librari...

24 May 2018

Partners in the Living Knowledge Network showing events for free on Saturday 26 May

Notice for visitors: some public areas to close ea...

24 May 2018

Please check full details of closure times before you travel

South Asia Series research talks at the British Li...

21 May 2018

A great line-up of talks based on the Library's ‘Two Centuries of Indian Print’ project and the South Asia Collection

Goldsmiths Centre for Caribbean and Diaspora Studi...

16 May 2018

‘Seamed by its own bitter juice’: Voice, Visibility, Literacies conference, 19-20 June, organised by the Centre for Cari...

Registration reminder for UK and Irish PLR schemes

15 May 2018

Please remember to register for UK and Irish PLR before 30 June 2018

British Library Digitisation Services at the Museu...

09 May 2018

British Library Digitisation Services will be exhibiting at The Museums + Heritage Show on 16 and 17 May 2018 at Olympia...

British Library On Demand opening hours for May Sp...

09 May 2018

The UK’s May spring bank holiday is Monday 28 May this year, so most On Demand services will stop from 02.00 on 26 May t...

Remote ebook lending and UK PLR

08 May 2018

DCMS is currently running a consultation to seek views on proposed technical amendments to the UK PLR Scheme

Notice for visitors: Listen exhibition to close ea...

04 May 2018

Please note our Entrance Hall Gallery will close from 17.00

Applications are open for the Fulbright British Li...

03 May 2018

Applications are invited from US-based scholars who wish to spend 6 months at the British Library researching a North Am...