Who says newsprint is dead? The British Library unveiled its new £33-million (US$55.5 million) "state-of-the-art reading room," replacing the Colindale newspaper library, which closed last year. The Newsroom offers more than 750 million pages of newspapers and magazines and 4.8 million archived websites in a collection that "dates as far back as the English Civil War and constitutes an unrivaled record of society, people, politics and events."
"The opening of the Newsroom means that news and newspapers are no longer the Cinderella of the library's collections, but are now at the very heart of the British Library's offering to researchers," said Library CEO Roly Keating.
"By moving the collection out of Colindale and into the world-class storage facility at Boston Spa, we're ensuring this vast, precious and incredibly fragile resource is available not just for today's researchers, but also future generations."
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