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|E-mail: apac-enquiries@bl.uk. Note however that you will automatically receive an online form to complete, so it is more efficient to compete this initially, as quoted in the link "Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections" below: [http://www.questionpoint.org/crs/servlet/org.oclc.admin.BuildForm?&institution=13430&type=1&language=1 Ask the Reference Team]
==Digitised books available on Google Books==Some books from the British Library's collection have been digitised . After you have found a catalogue reference through searching the British Library's main catalogue, refer below, click on "I want this". For books which have been digitised, one or all of the following sources will be available, and are available on may then be selected*British Library's pdf download, said to be "good for reading large amounts of text"*British Library's itemVIEWER, said to be "good for images"*[[Online books#Google Books|Google Books, and ]]**These books may also be located through Google Books's usual search. It is not possible however, to specifically locate books from the British Library through the Google Books search. This may be done through the British Library's main catalogue search, refers below, by typing googlebooks (Note: must be one word) in addition to your search keywords. From the results displayed, click on "I want this" and the Google Books link will be shown.Currently (November 2014) it does not seem possible to search the British Library's main catalogue to determine which books are available as pdf downloads, or through itemVIEWER.
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