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Reference Number WHEELER/N/7
TitleDainton Committee on National Libraries
Datec1968-1968
DescriptionComprising:
Memorandum of preliminary observations to the Dainton Committee on National Libraries, c1968.
Draft evidence compiled by the Committee on Printed Books for the Dainton Committee, concerning the British Museum Library, 1968.
Extent1 file
AdminHistoryIn 1967 the British Government set up the National Libraries Committee under the chairmanship of Sir Frederick Dainton (1914-1997) to study the national libraries of England and recommend measures for their reorganization. On the basis of the recommendations of the Dainton Committee, the British Library was founded in 1973 by an Act of Parliament in 1972.
AccessStatusOpen
AccessConditionsThe papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
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