Overview of the Library - our resources
Our financial resources, our buildings and our electronic systems are all directed to the efficient fulfilment of our responsibilities.
Income
Our Grant in Aid from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport was £91.6 million in 2004/05.
Trading income from our priced services was £23 million in 2004/05.
Grants, legacies, sponsorship and donations provided £4.9 million for our work in 2004/05.
Physical infrastructure
Our St Pancras headquarters opened in 1998. It is the largest public building to be constructed in the UK for 50 years.
Our 42-acre Boston Spa site includes 61,500 m2 of purpose-built storage and despatch buildings.
The national newspaper collection is housed in a 1930s building in Colindale, north London.
We have two major outhoused storage areas in Woolwich and Micawber St, London, both 8,500 m2.
Electronic infrastructure
Our digital infrastructure is as important as our physical estate. In the past year we launched our Integrated Library System, bringing together 29 million bibliographic records and replacing 14 legacy systems. The new system provides the basis for
re-engineering many collection management processes.
