MANY LIBRARIES DESTROYED
AIR RAID DAMAGE IN BRITAIN
'B.O. W.) RUGBY, August 21. The annual report of the Friends of National Libraries gives a list of libraries which have already been destroyed or badly damaged by enemy action. Included in the list is the British Museum Library, where the sections for law, archaeology, fine art, etc., and sets of philological and bibliographical periodicals have been largely destroyed; Goldsmith College, where about 12.000 books were destroyed; the Guildhall Library, the library of King’s College, London, the Inner Temple Library, and public libraries at Liverpool, Plymouth, and Richmond. • Birkbeck College Library has been almost completely destroyed, as have many thousands of books 'in the National Central Library.
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Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23415, 23 August 1941, Page 3
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