THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY LIBRARY -- NEW HOME

The Society's library, for many years housed at Stationers' Hall in the City of London, moved in January 2007 to Senate House, Malet Street, WC1E 7HU, where it is now available alongside the resources of the University of London Research Library Services.

Procedures for consulting items in the Society's library have changed as a result of this move, the main change being that books are no longer borrowable. It is not possible to house the collection on open-access shelving within Senate House – items will instead be fetched on request - but members of the Society will now also have free reference access to all the other resources of the Senate House Library, on production of proof of status (a signed copy of the latest annual Society programme card) at the Library membership desk. Another result of the move is that items in the Society's library are now available for consultation by any registered user of Senate House Library. The books will remain physically identifiable as belonging to the Society.

This development follows the incorporation of records for items in the Society's library into the main University of London Research Library Services catalogue (http://catalogue.ulrls.lon.ac.uk), which took place in 2004.

Full details of contacts and opening hours at Senate House Library can be found on the web at www.shl.lon.ac.uk.