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National Maritime Museum

Royal Naval Loan Library

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0064 RNL

Held at: National Maritime Museum

Title: Royal Naval Loan Library

Date(s): 1946-1947

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 1 box

Name of creator(s): Royal Naval Loan Library

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

After the Royal Naval War Libraries had ceased to function at the end of the Second World War, it was decided to use the large collection of non-fiction books which had formed the loan collection as the basis for a peace-time lending library to serve members of the Royal Navy, Royal Marines and WRNS, both serving and retired. The organisation thus formed was called the Royal Naval Loan Library and it was financed by a capital sum partly made over from the Royal Naval War Libraries fund, with a grant from the Royal Naval War Amenities Fund and other donations. After just a year of existence the organization decided that its financial basis was not strong enough and it was wound up.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Royal Naval Loan Library. They consist of notices and agenda of committee meetings, correspondence and financial statements, 1946 to 1947.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Please contact the Archive for further information.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Please contact the Archive for further information.

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue online at the: National Maritime Museum website .

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

The records were presented in 1964 by Mr F.G.G. Carr, then Director of the Museum.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Edited by Sarah Drewery, Sep 2011.