Our Library - November 2009 update

After three years in storage, the LNHS Library is now installed in the new Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity located in the new Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum.

Our library is available for reference by both members of the LNHS and the general public. There is shelving space for about half of the collection, and so we have put all the books out on the open shelves, while the periodicals, with the exception of the Society’s own, remain in store. Complete runs of the Society's own periodicals (The London Naturalist and London Bird Report) are available for reference.

We hope during the course of the next few months to edit the collection of books, dispose of some outdated works, and make room for more periodicals. We still have to make arrangements for lending books to members, and any member who needs to borrow a specific work should contact the Librarian, Linda Hewitt, on 020 7727 8206.

The staff at the Centre are setting up a new venture which will offer access to UK specimen collections, an identification and advisory service, and free visitor space for your own study; as well as citizen science projects (like OPAL) and workshop courses.

The whole project still has a lot of experimental features, and it will be a few months before we have all the organisational details settled. The Angela Marmont Centre is on the lower ground floor of the Darwin Centre.

Visiting the LNHS Library

The Natural History Museum is in Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London SW7 5BD.
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To reach the new Darwin Centre use the main Museum entrance. From the Museum's Central Hall, go past the huge dinosaur skeleton, through the 'Blue Zone' and walk along Dinosaur Way. At the end is the entrance to the new Centre.

The LNHS Library is located in the Angela Marmont Centre, which is on on the lower ground floor of the Darwin Centre.

There will be a drop-in enquiry service on Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays 10.00 – 17.30, when an enquiry officer will be on duty. You can also book a visit at other times, on-line through THIS LINK or by telephone on 020 7942 5045.

Visitors who are not members of the LNHS may visit the library for reference purposes but are not allowed to borrow books or journals.

Searchable indexes of the London Naturalist and the London Bird Report can be downloaded from our Publications page.