Editing Cambridge University Library (section)

== Legal deposit library ==
Cambridge University Library is one of the six [[legal deposit]] libraries under UK law, the others being the [[British Library]], the [[National Library of Scotland]], the [[National Library of Wales]], the [[Bodleian Libraries]], Oxford, and the [[Trinity College Library|Library of Trinity College]], Dublin.<ref name="Introduction to legal deposit"/> Although the [[Irish Free State]] left the UK in 1922, Trinity College Dublin remains a UK deposit library and the UK libraries reciprocally retain deposit rights for Irish publications.<ref name="dail1963021400009">{{cite web|url=http://oireachtasdebates.oireachtas.ie/debates%20authoring/debateswebpack.nsf/takes/dail1963021400009#N482|title=Committee on Finance. – Copyright Bill, 1962—Committee Stage|date=14 February 1963|work=Dáil Éireann Debate|pages=Vol.199 No.11 p.9 cc.1475–6|access-date=19 May 2017}}</ref><ref name="tcd">{{cite web|url=https://www.tcd.ie/library/collection-man/legal-deposit.php|title=Legal Deposit|work=The Library of Trinity College Dublin|date=10 June 2016|publisher=Trinity College Dublin|access-date=19 May 2017}}</ref> As a legal deposit library, the University Library is entitled to claim without charge a copy of all books, journals, printed maps and music published in the [[United Kingdom]] and [[Ireland]]. This has contributed to the library's large holdings of over seven million books and 1.5 million periodicals. Between 800 and 1200 books a week are received through legal deposit.

From 6 April 2013, legal deposit also covers material published digitally and online, so that the Legal Deposit libraries can provide a national archive of the UK's non-print published material, such as websites, blogs and ejournals. Significant digitisation efforts continue as more manuscripts and early-modern books are acquired and scanned by the University of Cambridge.
[[File:cmglee Cambridge Wren Library University Library.jpg|thumb|The University Library (background) and Trinity College's [[Wren Library]] (foreground), as viewed from St John's College chapel tower]]