You are invited to explore a state of the art book store, standing at the height of two giraffes and with over 105km of shelving to house four million books from the libraries of the University of Cambridge, through this special video tour for Open Cambridge.
As a Legal Deposit Library since 1710, Cambridge University Library has been entitled to claim a copy of every book published in the UK and Ireland for more than 300 years. Today, the University Library collections encompass around nine million books, manuscripts and other physical items, plus five million electronic items. So what happens when the University Library runs out of space to store them all?
Low-use material is now kept in the new state of the art store in Ely and, book lovers everywhere are invited to join Robin James, Head of Collection Logistics and Services, on this special digital tour of the University of Cambridge Library Storage Facility.
Link available Friday 11th September.