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The British Library receives a copy of every publication produced in the UK and Ireland. The collection includes well over 150 million items, in most known languages - 3 million new items are added every year. The BL has manuscripts, maps, newspapers, magazines, prints and drawings, music scores, and patents. Its Sound Archive keeps sound recordings from 19th-century cylinders to CD, DVD and MD recordings BL houses 8 million stamps and other philatelic items. All this requires over 625 km of shelves, and grows by 12 km every year. BL operates the world`s largest document delivery service providing millions of tems a year to customers all over the world.

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