Additionally, it has special collections in tax law, public international law, labor law, and is a Selective Federal Government Documents Depository.
The provenance, mechanics and limitations of using tobacco industry documents have been described elsewhere [ 38- 42], as have the particular difficulties of accessing and working with documents at the Guildford Depository [ 43- 45].
"It makes for very tense relationships," said John Young, who runs Cryptome, a website depository for secret documents along the lines of WikiLeaks.
The HBLL includes a family history library, the Primrose International Viola Library (named for William Primrose), the International Harp Archives, and serves as a designated depository of government documents.
The third author first collected documents in 1999 from the paper depository in Minnesota USA, using a computerized index and hand searches to identify documents of interest.
The first tranche of documents belatedly transferred from the Foreign Office depository in Hanslope park, near Milton Keynes, to the National Archives in Kew, show how British officials in Kuala Lumpur interpreted virtually all anti-colonial protests as evidence of a planned communist takeover.
Fortunately, fire brigades managed to confine the fire and save the main depository that contains 14 million documents, including some in ancient languages and rare editions dating back to as early as the 16th century.
The documents were stored at the medical history depository of IMCJ Hospital, at the medical records and hospitalization registries of Tokyo First Army Hospital (a predecessor of IMCJ Hospital), and at the Fifth Japanese Army Garrison Hospital, Krasnoyarsk, Russia.
Consular officials were crowbarring reliefs off temple walls; travellers were looting depositories of documents; dealers were tearing illustrations out of manuscripts - and artists were forging visions of harems and indolence and cruelty and passing them off as reality.
Litigation against the tobacco industry has resulted in the public release of over 47 million pages of internal industry documents housed in paper depositories and online electronic archives.
