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Lindley Library closure 4 - 15 August 2008

Lindley Library, London will close for two weeks 4-15 August 2008 for reorganisation and other housekeeping tasks. The new collections plan will deliver improved facilities for browsing and borrowing in the upper reading room. New access procedures will be introduced to specialist research collections in the lower reading room, from Monday 18 August. More details are available here.

During the closure Wisley Library can help with all library enquiries including lending and renewals.

RHS Garden Wisley
Woking
Surrey
GU23 6QB

E-mail: library.wisley@rhs.org.uk
Tel: 01483 212428

Joint meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society and Linnean Society of London

The joint meeting of the RHS and Linnean Society of London was held on 14 September 2007 at the RHS Conference Centre. The theme of the meeting was 'Botanical Art in the Age of Linnaeus' and included lectures from Brent Elliott, Charlie Jarvis, Annika Erikson Browne and John Edmondson.

For a summary of the meeting, download the Adobe Acrobat pdf report here (88KB)

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London

Lindley Library London is now housed in a fully refurbished building at Vincent Square, London. This was made possible by a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund, and funding from the Society and its members. The new facilities house and preserve the library’s heritage collection, and have greatly improved access for researchers and students , including access for disabled users. The facilities also include a special room for the drawings collection.

Garden Libraries

Garden Libraries in all RHS gardens are extremely popular. Their appeal is to amateur and professional gardeners, students, and RHS members, as well as to families and visitors from the whole region. The first Garden Library opened at Wisley in 1996, and 23,000 people visited Wisley Garden Library in 2006.

Lindley Library Catalogue

The library catalogue now contains records for all 20th century books in London. At Wisley, Hyde Hall and Rosemoor Garden Libraries all books are now on the online catalogue. For many older works images are being added, together with some supplementary documents attached to the records in PDF form. Digitising and cataloguing the drawings collection has also begun.