Cambridge University Library
Cambridge University Library
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| Country | England |
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| Type | Academic library |
| Established | 15th century (before 1416) |
| Location | West Road, Cambridge |
| Coordinates | 52°12′18.6″N 0°6′29″E / 52.205167°N 0.10806°ECoordinates: 52°12′18.6″N 0°6′29″E / 52.205167°N 0.10806°E |
| Collection | |
| Items collected | |
| Size | eight million items (approx.) |
| Legal deposit | Yes |
| Access and use | |
| Population served | University of Cambridge, and others |
| Members | University of Cambridge (and some other groups on application) |
| Other information | |
| Director | Jessica Gardner |
| Website | www |
Cambridge University Library is the main research library of the University of Cambridge in England. It is also the biggest of 114 libraries within the University.The Library is a major scholarly resource, not only for the University of Cambridge’s academic community, but also for researchers nationally and internationally. Organisationally, Cambridge University Library comprises the main University Library and its affiliated libraries. As of 3 August 2015, there are currently twenty-one affiliated libraries associated with the main University Library, which is often referred to within the University as "the University Library" or just "the UL."
The main University Library is one of the six legal deposit libraries in the United Kingdom and Ireland, the others being the British Library, the Bodleian Library in Oxford, the national libraries of Scotland and Wales, and Trinity College Library Dublin.
Through legal deposit, purchase and donation it receives around 100,000 items every year. The main University Library is unique amongst the Legal Deposit libraries in keeping a large proportion of its material on open access and in allowing some categories of reader (for example Cambridge academics, postgraduates and undergraduates) to borrow from its collections. The main University Library holds approximately 8 million items (including maps and sheet music).
Its original location was the University's "Old Schools" near Senate House until it outgrew the space there and a new library building was constructed in the 1930s. The library took over the site of a former military hospital, the "First Eastern General", on the western edge of Cambridge city centre, now between Robinson College and Memorial Court, Clare College.
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