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18/06/2013

Spending Round Settlement 2015/16 – Statement

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The British Library has been informed that it will receive a reduction in its Grant in Aid of 5% in the 2015/16 financial year. This follows news that the Department for Culture, Media and Sport will receive an overall reduction of 7.7% in 2015/16.

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The British Library has taken the lead, nationally and internationally, in aiming to overcome the challenges of collecting, preserving and providing contemporary and long term access to the world's digital knowledge.

The Library’s strategic vision is to 'provide both physical and digital access to world-class information where and when people need it'. We have developed a number of partnerships and business models to drive forward mass digitisation and create a valuable and enduring resource for researchers and the public alike.

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The British Library is concerned that the shift from print to digital publishing is undermining the traditional balance at the heart of copyright in ways that could make it harder for researchers to access and use information.

We believe that the UK needs an intellectual property framework appropriate for the digital age.

Recent Press Releases

14/06/2013

British Library acquires W.H. Auden’s previously ‘lost’ journal

  • Acquired for £47,475 on Wednesday 12 June

The British Library has this week acquired one of just three journals kept by W H Auden. The journal, which provides a fascinating juxtaposition of personal and political preoccupations, gives an intimate insight into Auden during one of the most important periods in his life. Used by the celebrated poet between August and November 1939, the unpublished journal has been in private hands since Auden’s death in 1973 until last month when it was unearthed and put up for auction by Christie’s.

11/06/2013

The British Library releases Virginia Woolf’s last unpublished work providing a quirky and fascinating insight into the Bloomsbury Group and life at Charleston

  • Published on Wednesday 12 June 2013

This week the British Library publishes The Charleston Bulletin Supplements, Virginia Woolf’s last known unpublished work. Announced earlier this year by the Library, the Supplements reveal a unique collaboration between the celebrated writer during her most prolific years and her young nephew, Quentin Bell, in the form of a family newspaper produced between 1923 and 1927.

04/06/2013

British Library to host major London festival of African literature, featuring acclaimed Kenyan novelist and theorist Ngugi wa Thiong’o

  • Friday 5 - Sunday 7 July 2013

The British Library is partnering with the Royal African Society to host the UK’s largest festival of African literature. Africa Writes will bring together established and exciting new writers from across the African continent and its diaspora for a three-day celebration of contemporary African writing.

30/05/2013

The British Library explores Benjamin Britten’s literary, poetic and musical influences with a new exhibition, Poetry in Sound: The Music of Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976)

  • 31 May - 15 September 2013

As part of the Britten 100 celebrations taking place all over the world, this new exhibition explores the literary, political and historical inspirations behind some of Benjamin Britten’s greatest works, providing a rare opportunity to see exhibits drawn from the British Library’s world class music collections. Alongside handwritten drafts of some of Britten’s best known compositions, including The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra acquired last year by the British Library, Poetry in Sound features some of Britten’s rarely seen manuscripts and unpublished Britten recordings from the Library’s Sound Archive.

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