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Science at the British Library - a historical background to the reading rooms, collections and services
Richard Wakeford
January 2014
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Patent Office Library
1852 - Patent Law Amendment Act 1852 requires “true copies of all specifications to be open to inspection by the public”
1853 - Report of the Commissioners of Patents recommends that the Patent Office Library should cover “the scientific and mechanical works of all nations”
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Patent Office Library
1855 - Patent Office Library opens at Southampton Buildings
1902 - New purpose Patent Office Library is built
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National Reference Library of Science and Invention
1966 - NRLSI opens
Management transferred from the Board of Trade to the British Museum
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The British Library
1972 - British Library Act declares that “The British Library shall be under the control and management of a public authority, to be known as "the British Library Board", whose duty it shall be to manage the Library as a national centre for reference, study and bibliographical and other information services, in relation both to scientific and technological matters and to the humanities.”
1974 - Science Reference Library (SRL) opens as part of the new British Library
1984 - Renamed Science Reference and Information Service (SRIS)
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St Pancras
1976 - St Pancras site is bought and design of the new building starts
1984 - Construction starts
1997 - Humanities reading room opens
1999 - The Science, Technology and Business (STB) reading rooms open
2005 - Science Reading Room, SPIS Reading Room, Business and Intellectual Property Centre open
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Collections and catalogues
1855 - Patent Office Library collection covers engineering and physical sciences
1880s - POL classification scheme introduced
1930 - POL card catalogue
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Collections and catalogues
1960 - Biomedical and earth sciences collections transferred from the BM to NRLSI
1963 - 1978 NRLSI/ SRL/ SRIS classification scheme
1987 - SCICAT online and fiche
1989 - BL OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue)
1994 - Patent jukebox for digitised full text
1997- OPAC97 web based catalogue
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Collections and catalogues – St Pancras
2003 - Dewey classification scheme
2004 - Digital access replaces printed patent collection
2005 - Primo/ Explore
2013 - Non-Print Legal Deposit
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Reader Services
1855 - Reference services
1918 - Photocopy service
1972 - Online search service
1976 - Medline via Internet/ARPANET pilot (BL R&D/ NLM)
1977 - British Library Automated Information Service (BLAISE)
1984 - Business Information Service followed by information services for biotechnology, environment, health, and social policy
1988 - CD-ROM databases in RR
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Index to foreign scientific periodicals contained in the Patent Office Library
1856 - the Prussian Patent Office publish Repertorium der Technischen Literatur. POL translated it into English and adopted its subject headings
1865 - Bennet Woodcroft starts Index to foreign scientific periodicals contained in the Patent Office Library
Author / title / classified - fortnightly publication and 6 month cumulations with index
First modern bibliographic source in English
“ This knowledge is diffused through so many channels and hidden under languages so various as to be difficult of access even to the rich and learned, whilst it is entirely beyond the reach of the operative classes.” Benjamin Woodcroft
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A Room near Chancery Lane by Charles Dickens
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Mr. Woodcroft has collected a valuable store of books of reference relating to patents;………….. The room near Chancery Lane, opened for the reader's especial benefit,, remains yet to be noticed. The building once occupied by the Masters in Chancery, is now placed at the disposal of the Commissioners of Patents. One among the many rooms in this building is now a reading-room, open to the public for the study of any and everything relating to patents. A small room it is: much too small, indeed; but as it is the beginning of a good thing, its gradual growth may be pleasantly watched hereafter.
It is well filled, and tended by officials, who show the utmost courtesy to visitors having any reasonable motive for going thither: mere curiosity is hardly a reasonable motive. ……..This he can do, either by his own researches, or still more readily by the aid of the polite attendants.
Household Words - 21 February 1857 pp 190-192
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Our Founder - Bennet Woodcroft
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Southampton Buildings in 1799
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Patent Office Library - 1902
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St Pancras in 1799
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An Alternative History ……..
And some things that didn’t happen…….
1944 - Southampton Buildings survives a near miss from a V1
1966 - Project to move NRLSI to the South Bank abandoned
1974 - Project to move NRLSI to Bloomsbury abandoned
c1985 - St Pancras Phases II and III abandoned
c1990- St Pancras Kings Library replaces the card catalogue hall
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Science at the British Library – a historical background
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Geoffrey, T. & Tyack, G. Sir James Pennethorne and the making of Victorian London / Geoffrey Tyack. Cambridge: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1992. General Reference Collection YC.1993.b.3917.
Hewish, J. 2000. Rooms near Chancery Lane : the Patent Office under the Commissioners, 1852-1883 / by John Hewish. London: London : British Library, 2000.
Richardson, A.E.S. 1984. Monumental classic architecture in Great Britain and Ireland / Albert E. Richardson. New York ; London: New York ; London : Norton, c1982.
St. John Wilson, C. 1998. The design and construction of the British Library. London: London : British Library, 1998.
Tyack, G. 1992. Sir James Pennethorne and the making of Victorian London / Geoffrey Tyack. Cambridge: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1992.
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