British Library builds fire-proof home for 750m newspapers
13 December 2012 Last updated at 20:53 GMT
The British Library's new £33m storage facility for newspapers at Boston Spa, near Wetherby, in West Yorkshire is nearing completion.
When it opens next year 750m pages of newsprint dating back 300 years will be moved there.
The collection is currently held in Colindale, north London.
Steve Morris, of the library, said: "It'll be a low-oxygen environment that means there will be absolutely no possibility of a fire in the building."
Comments
Awesome - what a fabulous commitment to an incredibly important heritage resource!
Related to this, I'd love to see the statistics on how much has been preserved on microfilm to international standards - can anyone help me with a link?
I'd also value some feedback on how the commercial partnership digitising some newspapers is working... and whether the customer experience has been reported/surveyed?
kind rgds,
Andy Fenton