Library
The library aims to support the learning and information needs of the RCP's members, students and staff. The unique collections are also used by members of the public interested in researching:
- history of medicine
- genealogy
- health and social policy
- medical education
The enquiry service provides information on the current role and functions of the RCP as well as its history. Reference access to the library collections is available to all. The reading room is open Monday - Friday, 9 - 5, apart from bank holidays.
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Famous quotes containing the word library:
“That a famous library has been cursed by a woman is a matter of complete indifference to a famous library. Venerable and calm, with all its treasures safe locked within its breast, it sleeps complacently and will, so far as I am concerned, so sleep forever. Never will I wake these echoes, never will I ask for that hospitality again ...”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
“With sighs more lunar than bronchial,
Howbeit eluding fallopian diagnosis,
She simpers into the tribal library and reads
That Keats died of tuberculosis . . .”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
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—Carolyn Wells (1862–1942)