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授课提示：对应学生用书第1页 走进剑桥大学：图书馆里求学忙 Cambridge University Library Cambridge University Library is one of the oldest institutions in the University of Cambridge, and for more than 600 years it has been central to the support of teaching and research at Cambridge, and a major resource for scholars around the world. It is one of the world's most important research libraries. Though the library enjoys a history of more than 600 years, in the early days, most of the collections mainly depended on donations and legacies. The library began to purchase books only in 1617, and it began its claim on books provided by publishers since 1662. In 1709，the King promulgated the Copyright Act which announced that all the books published in the country should turn in a copy to the Cambridge University Library, and the amount of the collections soared. On just over 100 miles of shelving, it houses around 7,000,000 printed volumes, 150,000 manuscript items, about a million maps and 400,000 musical items, as well as providing access to tens of thousands of electronic journals and databases. Since 1710 the library has been a legal deposit library, entitled to claim a copy of every book and periodical published in Great Britain and Ireland. Of all the libraries in Europe, the University Library has the largest collection of material on open access, with two million volumes on open shelves and immediately accessible to users. The library's special collections include thousands of medieval manuscripts such as the 5th­century Gospel text known as Codex Bezae; 4,500 incunabula including the Gutenberg Bible and a hand­coloured copy of the Nuremberg Chronicle；papers of scientists such as Sir Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Lord Kelvin and Lord Rutherford; papers of literary and political figures including Lord Acton, Lord Randolph Churchill, Sir Robert Walpole, Stanley Baldwin, Arthur Schnitzler and Stefan Heym; business archives of Jardine Matheson & Company and Vickers plc; the collections of the R