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Library History, Vol. 16, November 2000 P. R. HARRIS, J.\ history of the British Museum Library I753-I973. London: British Library, 1998. xx, 833p. ill. £50.00. ISBN a 71234562 a Note: Two reviews of this major volume were commisioned for this issue. The perspectives of the reviewers vary widely, and it was thought by the editors that this would benefit the readers of this journal. In the Introduction to his monumental history of the British Museum Library, Philip Harris describes the post-war Museum as having 'to some extent the atmosphere of a village'; 'people were proud to work for it'. Then somehow he plays down this sense of intimacy, of belonging, of involvement, by writing 'this might involve the charge of elitism'. But there was such a village in Bloomsbury, with its strange local customs, and its share of eccentric inhabitants, perhaps more vividly apparent to one who spent only sixteen years there, compared with the historian's thirty-nine. Elitism maybe, but the sense of privilege and wonder at that extraordinary institution has never left me, and it remains with many others who served it. For a long time, I never thought to leave it, though the reading of Harris's final
Library History – Edinburgh University Press
Published: Nov 1, 2000
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