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Cambridge University Library has opened a vast, new £17m storage facility on the outskirts of Ely – capable of holding 4 million books, manuscripts and other objects that have been deemed low-use by the University Library and other University libraries and collections.

The state-of-the-art storage facility has been built because the University Library, which is already home to more than nine million books and manuscripts collected under Legal Deposit – is full to bursting point.

The first book placed into the new facility – which has 65 miles of shelving with each row reaching a height of 11.5m – was Douglas Adams’ Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Adams was an alumni of Cambridge University.
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