CILIP RPG visit to University College London Library

UCL was the first university institution to be established in London and the first in England to admit students regardless of their religion. It was one of the two founding colleges of the University of London and achieved formal university status in 2023.

UCL has its main campus in the Bloomsbury area of central London, with a number of institutes and teaching hospitals elsewhere in central London, and has a second campus, UCL East, at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, East London.

The Library holds approximately two million print volumes covering the full range of subjects and disciplines taught and researched at UCL. The physical collections are located across UCL's14 site libraries and in an additional off-site storage facility.

Its Flagship Collections are those which have a national or international significance and include collections on archaeology, architecture and planning, education, Hebrew and Jewish studies, pharmacy, Scandinavian studies and small presses.

As part of the bicentenary celebrations, On the Shelf: 200 years of building UCL's library collections is a public exhibition in the Main