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Saturday 30 May 2015

How the Reading Room could tell its own story

The British Museum's Reading Room would be the ideal place for an exhibition on libraries

Roof of the Reading Room, British Museum.
Raise the roof: the papier mâché domed ceiling echoes that of the Pantheon in Rome  Photo: ALAMY

SIR – The British Museum Reading Room would be the perfect place for an exhibition on the history of libraries, both public and private, as well as that of the people who used them and, indeed, still do.

Many 20th-century writers, scholars and scientists – for example, the mathematician Jacob Bronowski – acknowledged the importance of public libraries to their education. From the library at Alexandria, via the chained libraries of medieval cathedrals, through to the Library of Birmingham, which opened last year, surely this is a story to be told. What more appropriate place to tell it?

Anne Jones
Beckenham, Kent

 
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