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The London Library: portrait of a lady.

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From: Information Today
Date: 20070401
Author:Flood, Gary

"I can get more from a book in 20 minutes at home than 2 hours in a public reading room," said Thomas Carlyle, that formidable Scottish Victorian man of letters. In fact, he was so convinced of his opinion that he founded his very own library to achieve his goal.

That library--called, then and now, The London Library--is a rare and different thing in the modern age of information management. Essentially, the institution stands very much apart from many of the mainstream pressures and concerns of similar-sized sites. As a self-funding charity, it is completely free of what its ...

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