Facilities

The library building, designed by Sir Leslie Martin, was opened in 1984 and offers the following facilities:

• a reading room and open access library collection
• a reference area with catalogue terminals, catalogues and reference books
• an audio room with several listening places, facilities for DIY copying of recordings, computers, printing and copying facilities, and an electronic legal deposit terminal
• a multimedia/group study room with electronic keyboards and audiovisual equipment (situated in the Library Annexe)
• the Dent room with digital microfilm reader/scanner and facsimile collections