Catalogue description Department of Education and Science: Arts, Intelligence and External Relations Branch: Libraries and Information Systems, Registered Files (LSI Series)

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Reference: ED 242
Title: Department of Education and Science: Arts, Intelligence and External Relations Branch: Libraries and Information Systems, Registered Files (LSI Series)
Description:

Registered files of the Department of Education and Science, Arts, Intelligence and External Relations Branch relating to libraries and information systems.

The files contain early papers on the proposed British Museum Library building, a feasibility study on the introduction of ADP systems into the British Library and other national libraries, preliminary papers on the formation of the British Library, and public lending right.

This was a short-lived series probably raised specifically for dealing with libraries and information systems, though the overlap with the contemporary AL series is not clear.

Date: 1969-1972
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: LSI file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 22 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

ED 242/17-22 transferred from Department for Culture, Media and Sport , in 1999

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