All other content may only be used in line with a relevant licence or other terms of use granted by the relevant third party copyright holder The audio, video, text, images, or other material made available on the Website by the Library are either protected by the copyright of third parties, are the copyright of the British Library Board, or are materials which are in the public domain or made available under a Creative Commons licence. 10.2 Readers’ Remote Access to Eresources is conditional upon satisfactorily completing a secure authentication process adopted by the Library for this purpose from time to time and acceptance of such further terms and conditions applicable to the relevant Eresource as required by the Library and/or Eresource provider concerned.
Events and exhibitions
We advise you to leave coats and bags in our cloakroom and locker room facilities. Please note that we also reserve the right to request that you leave phones, coats and bags in these facilities for certain events. (Further details will be provided in the description of the event, if necessary.) Please be aware that bags larger than airline carry-on size (56cm x 45cm x 25cm) are not allowed into the building, and our cloakroom cannot accept items exceeding 50cm in any direction.
Reading Rooms and study spaces
3.1 Reader Passes are issued at the reasonable discretion of the Library in accordance with its application process and requirements from time to time. When you enter our buildings, our Security staff may conduct bag searches and body scans. Our Security staff may also carry out further searches of visitors leaving our exhibition galleries and Reading Rooms. Any person who is unwilling to be searched may be refused access to our buildings or asked to leave.
Copying Content
All user generated content must comply with our Rules of Acceptable Use for User Generated Content; we reserve the right to remove any content that does not comply. Any decision to remove such material is final and no correspondence will be entered into. Where information (including sensitive financial or personal information) is provided to the Library (whether directly through the Website or otherwise) you accept that these methods of communication cannot be 100% secure. The provision of personal information by you and use of it by the Library is subject to the Library’s Privacy Policy, which is incorporated in these Terms and Conditions. However, you may not display the contents of our Website (or any page from it) or allow it to be displayed, surrounded, framed, or otherwise surrounded by material not originating from us without our consent.
However, if you cannot attend due to exceptional circumstances, please contact our Customer Services team who may be able to help you. We are only able to consider requests for refund or replacement that come in via email. The Library reserves the right to vary these Terms and Conditions from time to time.
Reader Services means each and any of those facilities and services that the Library makes available from time to time for Readers including without limit Reading Rooms, use of Content and Remote Access. Prohibited Items are items which could damage the Content or are otherwise inconsistent with the conducive use of Reader Services which the Library may in its discretion determine from time to time including without limit pens, sticky notes, adhesive tape, food, drink, liquids, chewing gum, scissors, knives, blades, portable scanners, adhesives. You can’t take books home, but you can use our Reading Rooms in London and Yorkshire for personal study and to access our collections. Beyond the services we offer in our Reading Rooms we also collaborate with researchers, help people start and grow businesses, digitise collections, hire our spaces, publish our own books and help authors to benefit from public library loans.
User generated content
While you are entitled to request any information we hold, the Act provides a number of exemptions that allow information to be withheld in certain circumstances. If we decide that we cannot release the information requested, we will explain which exemption is relevant in this case. To make a request under the Act, please send us an email, letter or a fax requesting the information and, provided it is not covered by one of the exemptions in the Act, we will provide you with that information as soon as possible, or in any event within 20 working days.
- The British Library reserves the right to decline admission to our sites and buildings, including our Euston Road Piazza which may otherwise be open to the public.
- Explore events for researchers – free intro sessions to help you use the Library, doctoral open days, and scholars lunchtime talks.
- 3.1 Reader Passes are issued at the reasonable discretion of the Library in accordance with its application process and requirements from time to time.
- Where information (including sensitive financial or personal information) is provided to the Library (whether directly through the Website or otherwise) you accept that these methods of communication cannot be 100% secure.
- Please note that you have no statutory right to amend or to cancel and receive a refund for an event you have booked.
Digital Content: conformity with description
The Freedom of Information Act 2000 gives a general right of access to recorded information held by public authorities and obliges them to disclose information, subject to a range of exemptions. LibraryOn is a single online home for libraries and library users across the country – offering an easy way to find, understand and use your local library’s services. Explore events for researchers – free intro sessions to help you use the Library, doctoral open days, and scholars lunchtime talks. Research and collection guides to help you use our catalogue, request collection items, and explore resources. Including books, newspapers, maps, sound recordings, photographs, patents and stamps. Visit our Reading Rooms in London or Yorkshire to view the items you have requested.
- You can’t take books home, but you can use our Reading Rooms in London and Yorkshire for personal study and to access our collections.
- 6.2 Readers shall follow all Library procedures for the issue and return of Content and in particular shall return Content to appropriate Library staff at the end of use by the Reader or when otherwise requested to do so by Library staff at any time.
- We may require you to confirm the rights granted in this paragraph and where requested to do so you shall provide all reasonable assistance to the Library.
- 4.8 Access to Reading Rooms is subject to capacity levels set by the Library from time to time.
Reader Pass means a valid and current photo pass (or temporary alternative) issued to a Reader following successful completion of the Library’s reader registration process from time to time. We publish from our collections to bring forgotten stories and original non-fiction to new readers. In this section are the terms and conditions on which we supply goods, services or digital content to you. Please ensure that you bring your ticket or e-ticket with you, together with proof of eligibility where required for concessionary rates when you attend for your event. Please note that you have no statutory right to amend or to cancel and receive a refund for an event you have booked.
4.8 Access to Reading Rooms is subject to capacity levels set by the Library from time to time. 4.7 Readers shall comply with the Library’s stated operational hours and closures as prescribed by the Library from time to time. 4.3 Readers may take one small bag into a Reading Room together with one clear plastic bag for a laptop computer and/or other non-Prohibited Items. Readers must not take any bag larger than 29 x 21 x 10cm into the Reading Rooms. The Library may inspect bags and personal possessions taken into a Reading Room (with or without notice to the Reader) and Readers shall provide all reasonable assistance to facilitate such inspection. 3.5 Readers must advise the Library of any change in their personal details supplied on registration for a Reader Pass including without limit any name change, change of address or change of contact details.
Reading Rooms and Reader Services
We may require you to confirm the rights granted in this paragraph and where requested to do so you shall provide all reasonable assistance to the Library. You warrant that you have full right, power, and authority to provide such content, and that it does not infringe any third party rights, and you hereby indemnify the Library against actions brought against us for any alleged infringement of such rights arising from your use of the Website. Where content is marked as Creative Commons content, either the British Library owns copyright or database rights and wishes to share the content in support of our mission to support access to knowledge, or else the content has been licensed by third parties under a Creative Commons licence.
You may however freely use any ‘embed’ features made available on our Website, for example via our Universal Viewer or Sounds pages. The terms and conditions in this section apply to the use of all online services operated by the British Library, except where superseded by service-specific terms and conditions provided at the point of use of those services. In the event of any conflict, the terms on those specific services take precedence. 15.6 Privacy Policy In addition to the specific uses of personal details and Account Credentials set out in these terms, the Library’s Privacy Policy shall apply the use of Readers’ personal information held by the Library. Readers accept that they are the Data Controller in relation to any use that they make of personal data within the Content, as further set out in our relevant Transparency Notice. 10.1 Subject to these terms and any other requirements notified or advised to Readers from time to time Readers may be permitted Remote Access to certain Eresources.
A library card that gives you free access to our world-leading collections and Reading Rooms. Whether you’re an academic or conducting personal research, all you need is a free Reader Pass. Orders placed before 3pm will be ready to collect from noon the following day (including weekends).
Digitise your collections
9.3 Except where expressly prior permitted in writing by the relevant rights holder(s), Readers shall not download any Content onto external networks or personal equipment. 8.1 Where Readers wish to copy or photograph Content they shall comply with Library procedures as displayed in Reading Rooms or otherwise notified to Readers from time to time. 6.7 Readers shall comply with directions and requirements from time to time given by Library staff concerning the use of Content. 6.6 Readers shall comply with any notified, displayed or reasonably apparent terms applicable to the use of any Content including without limit eresource, and including such terms as may be prescribed by the relevant rights holder(s) interested in such Content. 6.2 Readers shall follow all Library procedures for the issue and return of Content and in particular shall return Content to appropriate Library staff at the end of use by the Reader or when otherwise requested to do so chicken road by Library staff at any time. 5.4 Readers shall at all relevant times have due regard for the safety of themselves and others.