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Brotherton Library. / 53.8080°N 1.5534°W / 53.8080; -1.5534. The Brotherton Library is a 1936 Grade II listed Neoclassical building with some art deco fittings, located on the main campus of the University of Leeds. It was designed by the firm of Lanchester & Lodge, and is named after Edward Brotherton, 1st Baron Brotherton, who in ...
The university library is spread over five locations, and holds, in total, 2.78 million books, 26,000 print and electronic journals, 850 databases and 6,000 electronic books: making it one of the largest research libraries in the UK.
The Leeds Library is the oldest surviving subscription library of its type in the UK. It was founded in 1768, [1] following an advertisement placed in the Leeds Intelligencer earlier that year. The first secretary was Joseph Priestley. [2] In 1779, James Boswell wrote, "In Leeds, where one would not expect it, there is a very good public ...
The John Rylands Research Institute and Library is a late-Victorian neo-Gothic building on Deansgate in Manchester, England. It is part of the University of Manchester. [4] The library, which opened to the public in 1900, was founded by Enriqueta Augustina Rylands in memory of her husband, John Rylands. [5]
List of academic databases and search engines. This article contains a representative list of notable databases and search engines useful in an academic setting for finding and accessing articles in academic journals, institutional repositories, archives, or other collections of scientific and other articles. Databases and search engines differ ...
Research Libraries UK ( RLUK) (formerly CURL) [1] comprises 35 university libraries, 3 national libraries, and the Wellcome Collection in the United Kingdom and Ireland. [2] Its aim is to increase the ability of research libraries to share resources among themselves. The holdings of these libraries provided the basis of the Copac online catalogue.
The White Rose University Press, established in 2016, is an open access digital university press run jointly by the three members of the White Rose Libraries collaboration. It publishes academic texts of various kinds, including monographs, conference proceedings, and academic journals. [4] It currently publishes five journals: [5]
Leeds Central Library is a public library in Leeds. Situated in the city centre, on Calverley Street, it houses the city library service's single largest general lending and reference collection and hosts the Leeds Art Gallery .