Although our roots extend back centuries, we collect everything published today, tomorrow and decades into the future. We have millions of books, but also newspapers, maps, sound recordings, patents and stamps.
Our spaces are open for study, a place to meet friends, to start up a new business or to get inspired by visiting our galleries and events.
We're continuing to experience a major technology outage as a result of a cyber-attack. Our buildings are open as usual, however, the outage is still affecting our website, online systems and services, as well as some onsite services. This is a temporary website, with limited content outlining the services that are currently available, as well as what's on at the Library.
We've released a searchable online version of our main catalogue, which contains the majority of our printed collections as well as some freely available online resources, but not everything is included.
Our Reading Rooms in London and Yorkshire are open, but access to our collection and online resources is limited.
Our buildings in London and Yorkshire are open as usual. Find our opening hours, facilities and access information.
Discover what's on at the Library. We have five-star exhibitions, events and courses, family activities, free galleries and tours.
Explore our free workshops and activities for schools, available in London, Leeds and online.
We can support you in starting up, protecting or growing your business. Digital services are currently unavailable but our centres are open.
We've released a searchable online version of our main catalogue as the first major step in the restoration of our services. While online ordering remains unavailable, more of our physical collection held in St Pancras, including the majority of our special collection materials, can now be manually ordered in our Reading Rooms. Find out more.
On Monday 15 January, we will take a major first step in the restoration of our services for Readers and researchers. Our Chief Executive, Sir Roly Keating, shares more details in a new blog.
We've opened The Last Word community hub in our Piazza, which is the new base for our Community Engagement team. Here they'll meet Camden residents and host a range of activities with and for local people. The hub will also showcase changing displays of community projects for everyone to enjoy.
As a charity, we work to preserve and share our collection of over 170 million items, which grows every day.
Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.
