"[University of Leeds](https://library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections/) website"@en . . "There are four libraries on campus providing a range of study environments, including flexible group study areas and silent individual study spaces. \r\n\r\nYou can visit Special Collections in the Brotherton Library to view items in person. You can search our collections online. You can view the images of the many items that are digitised.\r\n\r\nThe architects of the Brotherton Library were Lanchester, Lucas and Lodge, who submitted the winning designs for a new campus as part of the University's Architectural Prize Scheme of 1927. The library was funded entirely by a hugely successful local industrialist and equally far-sighted philanthropist, Lord Brotherton of Wakefield. Sadly, he did not live to see the Brotherton Library's opening in 1936.\r\n\r\nOutwardly an unadorned redbrick building, the Brotherton Library was always intended to lie behind an imposing University frontage. This materialised in the form of the Parkinson Building, which opened in 1951.\r\n\r\nThe Brotherton's round, domed reading room was deliberately modelled on that of the British Museum, but, with Yorkshire bravura, a slightly increased diameter ensured that it was larger than the southern original.\r\n\r\nAbove the reading room entrance, carved in oak, sits the University's coat of arms. It features a book inscribed with the University's motto:\"et augebitur scienti\" –\"and knowledge will be increase\".\r\n\r\nIn 1993, every book in the Brotherton was moved to allow readers into the new West Building extension (formal opening in 1995)."@en . . . . "The Library has a wheelchair-height gate at the entrance outside the School of Chemistry. An accessible lift is available in the building. All libraries have extensive computer facilities and wi-fi throughout for your devices and laptops."@en . . "The Special Collections Research Centre is open to a limited number of researchers for in-person visits.\r\n\r\nSpecial Collections is the home of hundreds of thousands of rare books, manuscripts, archives and art. Our collections offer a rich resource for staff, students and the wider research community. The Special Collections Research Centre is on level 4 of the Brotherton Library, on the upper floor of the main reading room."@en . "Virtual consultations and a quick photo service are available to University of Leeds researchers."@en . "University of Leeds Special Collections"@en . "The Brotherton Library is accessed from the Parkinson Building.\r\nThe door is open between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday to Friday. Outside of those hours, you can access by swiping your membership card in the card reader to the left of the entrance, or by pressing the buzzer."@en . "Leeds University Library’s Special Collections is the home of hundreds of thousands of rare books, manuscripts, archives and art. Our collections offer a rich resource for staff, students, and the wider research community."@en . . "External readers are required to register on their first visit with identification showing their name, address and signature."@en . . . . . . .