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Construction work on the Newspaper Storage Building was completed in 2013 and the newspaper library at Colindale closed on 8 November 2013.
The Newspaper Library became part of the British Library in 1973.
But we should not let the end of the traditional newspaper library go unnoticed.
Inevitably, I have become conscious over the years of what an astonishing phenomenon – disturbing as well as alluring – the British newspaper library has been.
The previous day, I had visited the newspaper library in Belfast and pored over reports from the early 70s, when the darkness first descended on Northern Ireland.
That meant day after day at the British newspaper library, working my way through the small print of numbingly detailed match reports, usually on microfilm in the national press and Sporting Life, on original hard copy in local papers covering where he played.
For many years its collections were dispersed in various buildings around central London, in places such as Bloomsbury (within the British Museum), Chancery Lane, Bayswater, and Holborn with an interlibrary lending centre at Boston Spa, Wetherby in West Yorkshire (situated on Thorp Arch Trading Estate) and the newspaper library at Colindale, north-west London.
In July 2008 the Library announced that it would be moving low-use items to a new storage facility in Boston Spa in Yorkshire and that it planned to close the newspaper library at Colindale, ahead of a later move to a similar facility on the same site.
Traditional newspaper libraries are going.
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