News

British Library On Demand closures over Christmas...

10 December 2019

The British Library in Boston Spa will be closed over Christmas and New Year impacting some of our services such as the...

Preparing for and using a remote storage facility

10 December 2019

Andy Appleyard was invited to participate in the seminar organised by the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CER...

UKRR represented at IFLA ILDS conference “Beyond t...

10 December 2019

Andy Appleyard was invited to attend and speak at the IFLA ILDS conference: Presenting on the theme of “Resource Discove...

Change in price to the CLA default Copyright fee

02 December 2019

The Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA) default copyright fee will be rising from £17.50 to £20.00 on 1 January 2020.

We've updated our DRM Lite Guidelines

30 October 2019

We’ve updated our DRM Lite Guidelines to give you a better experience when using British Library On Demand.

Discovering Sacred Texts

23 September 2019

Explore the sacred texts of the world’s great faiths

Apply for a Goodison Fellowship

19 September 2019

Get a chance to explore the Library’s oral history collection

Caring for On Demand Loans

11 September 2019

As part of our continued work to conserve and care for our collections, here are some friendly reminders for best practi...

Changes to ILL Form

11 September 2019

In response to customer feedback we are making changes to the online ILL claim form to address the issues some of you ha...

British Library On Demand maintenance completed

22 July 2019

British Library On Demand is available for use again after we successfully completed our maintenance.

Scheduled maintenance for British Library On Deman...

17 July 2019

We are performing maintenance on British Library On Demand which will mean that the service is unavailable over the week...

UKRR progress towards service delivery - June upda...

19 June 2019

We continue the process of moving UKRR to a British Library Service and in May and June have been presenting our vision...

British Library On Demand Prices for 2019/20

31 May 2019

There will be changes to the pricing of On Demand document supply from 1 August 2019. The changes will help us ensure ou...

Digitisation Services at the Museums + Heritage Sh...

07 May 2019

British Library Digitisation Services will be exhibiting at the Museums + Heritage Show in London on 15-16 May.

On Demand operating times for May U.K. public holi...

30 April 2019

There are two U.K. public holidays in May and the operating hours for On Demand will be limited as a result