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LSE Library Vision and Purpose

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Policies and rules governing use of LSE Library

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Meet the Library Leadership Team

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Library Collections Policy guides our staff in developing and managing our collections

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LSE Library history begins in 1896 with the formation of a Library of Political Science

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