The world’s most advanced library storage facility has been officially opened at the British Library’s Boston Spa site in West Yorkshire. The Additional Storage Building (ASB) combines a range of cutting-edge technologies to offer 262 kilometres of temperature- and humidity-controlled storage space, and will eventually house approximately 7 million items from the UK national collection.
The building was opened by the Minister for Yorkshire and The Humber, Rosie Winterton MP, who welcomed the development of this world-leading facility on the Boston Spa site, near Wetherby, where the British Library has operated its document supply activities for over forty years:
Ms Winterton said: “I am very pleased to be opening this new £26million building. This is an exciting development for the British Library and I am delighted that the site at Boston Spa has been chosen as the location for such a nationally significant facility.”
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