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British Library Unveils £33-Million Newspaper Reading Room

 

Who says newsprint is dead? The British Library unveiled its new £33-million (US$55.5 million) "state-of-the-art reading room," replacing the Colindale newspaper library, which closed last year. The Newsroom offers more than 750 million pages of newspapers and magazines and 4.8 million archived websites in a collection that "dates as far back as the English Civil War and constitutes an unrivaled record of society, people, politics and events."