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Catalogue description Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and predecessors: Libraries Division: Registered Files (LD Series)
| Reference: | PF 322 |
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| Title: | Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and predecessors: Libraries Division: Registered Files (LD Series) |
| Description: |
This series contains registered files created by the Libraries Divison concerning policy matters of the public library service, monitoring of public library services and the funding considerations of such services. Records within this series also cover a wide variety of issues, including: the development of the British Library at St Pancras, libraries in museums, copyright and intellectual property rights, legal deposit, the Public Lending Right, the DCMS/Wolfson Foundation Challenge Fund and the impact of private finance initiatives on libraries. |
| Date: | 1987-2004 |
| Related material: |
For files concerning predecessor departments involvement within library policy matters can be found at ED 221 For files concerning predecessor departments involvement within library policy matters can be found at ED 244 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in its original department: | LD Prefix |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Department for Culture, Media and Sport, 1997-2017 Department of Education and Science, 1964-1992 Department of National Heritage, 1992-1997 |
| Physical description: | 228 file(s) |
| Access conditions: | Open unless otherwise stated |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
From 2023 Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport |
| Custodial history: | Some records inherited from the Department of Education and Science upon the establishment of DCMS (then the Department of National Heritage) in 1992 and the transfer of policy responsibilities. |
| Accruals: | Series is accruing |
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