John Rylands University Library
The University of Manchester Library (formerly The John Rylands University Library) is the University of Manchester's library and information service. It was formed in July 1972 from the merger of the library of the Victoria University of Manchester with the John Rylands Library. On 1 October 2004 it joined the library of the University of Manchester Institute of Science & Technology (UMIST) on the merger of the two universities.
The main library is on the Oxford Road Campus of the University in Chorlton on Medlock, its entrance is on Burlington Street. The library's official name has varied, the most recent change taking place in summer 2012. The library is a National Research Library (an award of the Higher Education Funding Council for England): the only one in the north of England. It is a member of NoWAL – The North West Academic Libraries, a consortium of 13 academic libraries in Northwest England (founded as the Consortium of Academic Libraries in Manchester in 1992 and renamed in 2002) and of Research Libraries UK (formerly the Consortium of University Research Libraries of which the library was a founder member in the 1980s), a consortium of 30 research and academic libraries in the United Kingdom.
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