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For many years its collections were dispersed in various buildings around central London, in places such as Bloomsbury (right next to the British Museum), Chancery Lane , and Holborn. Since 1997, however, the entire collection has been housed in one building, designed specially for the purpose by the architect Colin St. John Wilson . The new building is sited near the Kings Cross and St. Pancras rail stations in the London Borough of Camden and is the largest public building constructed in the UK in the 20th century.

At the heart of the building is a three story glass tower containing The King's Library, with 65,000 printed volumes along with other pamphlets, manuscripts and maps collected by King George III between 1763 and 1820.

A number of important works are on display to the general public; the other items can be accessed in reading rooms that are restricted to persons with a legitimate research interest which cannot easily be satisfied elsewhere.

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In 2003, a Private Member's Bill, the Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003 , was passed which extended the Legal Deposit requirements to electronic documents such as CD ROMs and selected websites.

The library also holds the Oriental and India Office Collections (OIOC), which contain the collections of the India Office Library and Records , and materials in the languages of Asia and of north and north-east Africa.

The British Library participates in a project called ' Bibliotheca Universalis' which aims at publishing major works on the web. In the British Library's Digital library project collections can be toured online and the virtual pages of Leonardo's notebooks and other great works can be turned electronically.

The use of the libraries web catalogue also continues to increase. In 2003 more than 9.7 million searches were conducted.

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