How to Obtain Official Photographs of British Library Buildings
The Library's Press Office holds a range of high-quality
images of British Library buildings and collection items to answer
requests from journalists. All other enquirers requiring images should
contact the Picture Library.
The following images (which can be enlarged by clicking
on them) are examples of the type of pictures available to journalists.
If you are a member of the press and would like to request images,
please contact the Press Office on + 44 (0)20 7412 7111.
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The British Library at St Pancras, showing the piazza and Sir
Eduardo Paolozzi's statue of Isaac Newton.
© Irene Rhoden
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Aerial view of the British Library building
at St Pancras. The Library has 11 separate Reading Rooms. Located
on the right are the conference centre and the Library's science,
technology and business Reading Rooms and to the left are the humanities
Reading Rooms.
© Irene Rhoden |
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Aerial view of the British Library's buildings at Boston Spa.
The Boston Spa site houses over 1,000 staff working in Document
Supply, Bibliographic Services, and support functions. One of the
Library's best-known services is the Document Supply service, which
despatches over 3.5 million documents each year to libraries and
other organisations in the UK and around the world.
© The British Library
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The main portico entrance to the British
Library's St Pancras building provides a view of Sir Eduardo Paolozzi's
statue of Isaac Newton. The statue was inspired by William Blake's
famous image of Newton bending forward to plot, with a pair of dividers,
the immensity of the universe.
© Irene Rhoden |
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The Library's entrance hall at St Pancras
features a tapestry based on the painting 'If not, not' by RB Kitaj,
now hanging in the Scottish Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh. Kitaj's
work employs a host of literary references, chief among them TS Eliot's
poem 'The Waste Land'.
© Irene Rhoden |
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View of the Library's entrance hall at
St Pancras taken from the second floor gallery.
© Irene Rhoden |
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One of the most striking sights at St
Pancras is the King's Library, holding one of the British Library's
principal collections of printed books. The six-storey glass tower
houses the complete library of King George III (1738-1820), which
his son King George IV presented to the nation in 1823.
© Irene Rhoden |
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The Humanities - Floor 1 reading room at St Pancras.
Located above are the Humanities - Floor 2 and Maps Reading Rooms.
© Irene Rhoden |
