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Article: British Library joins RLG. (Research Libraries Group)
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- Information Today
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- April 1, 1992
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The British Library has become a general member of the Research Libraries Group (RLG). In announcing this news, J. Michael Smethurst, the British Library's director general of London Services, said, "We have worked closely with RLG for a number of years, and the time is now right for a closer relationship. We want to develop new ties with the major research libraries and the scholarly community in the United States; because RLG works with both the library-bibliographic world and the scholarly world, it is a good organization for us to be associated with."
"The British Library's decision to join," said RLG president James Michalko, "gives us the wonderful ...