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{{short description|Former library system of the University of London}}
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[[File:Senate House, University of London.jpg|thumb|upright|alt=Senate House of the University of London.|right|[[Senate House (University of London)|Senate House]], the headquarters of the Senate House Libraries]]
The '''Senate House Libraries''' ('''SHL'''), formerly '''The University of London Research Library Services''', was a group of [[Library|libraries]] based in [[Bloomsbury]] which together comprised an extensive research collection across the [[humanities]] and [[social sciences]]. It existed under this name from 2011 to 2013.

SHL was a division of the [[University of London]], headquartered at [[Senate House (University of London)|Senate House]] on [[Russell Square]], and was formed by bringing together the former University of London Library (now Senate House Library) and the libraries of the various institutes comprising the [[School of Advanced Study]]. The previous umbrella name, University of London Research Library Services (ULRLS) was replaced by Senate House Libraries on 1 April 2011 in a rebranding exercise.

The following eight libraries were part of SHL:

*[[Institute for the Study of the Americas]] library<ref>{{cite web|url=http://americas.sas.ac.uk/library/ |title=Library &#124; Institute of Latin American Studies |publisher=Americas.sas.ac.uk |date=1986-11-15 |access-date=2015-10-14}}</ref>
*[[Institute of Advanced Legal Studies]] library<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ials.sas.ac.uk/library/library.htm|title=IALS Library - IALS|website=ials.sas.ac.uk}}</ref>
*[[Institute of Classical Studies]] library<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.icls.sas.ac.uk/|title=Welcome to the Combined Classics Library|website=library.icls.sas.ac.uk}}</ref>
*[[Institute of Commonwealth Studies]] library<ref>[http://www2.sas.ac.uk/commonwealthstudies/library.htm ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050901174909/http://www2.sas.ac.uk/commonwealthstudies/library.htm |date=September 1, 2005 }}</ref>
*[[Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies]] library<ref>{{cite web|url=http://igrs.sas.ac.uk/library/|title=Library|date=12 December 2016}}</ref>
*[[Institute of Historical Research]] library<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.history.ac.uk/library/|title=IHR Library - Institute of Historical Research|website=www.history.ac.uk|date=25 January 2010 }}</ref>
*[[Senate House Library]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shl.lon.ac.uk/ |title=Senate House Library |publisher=Shl.lon.ac.uk |date=2015-09-30 |access-date=2015-10-14}}</ref> 
*[[Warburg Institute]] library<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www2.sas.ac.uk/warburg/mnemosyne/entrance.htm |title=The Warburg Institute: Library |publisher=.sas.ac.uk |access-date=2015-10-14}}</ref>

The combined holdings of the libraries amount to almost 3 million volumes, including many thousands of journals, and numerous deep and rich collections of research materials in subjects across the disciplines.

The Senate House Libraries group was dismantled in 2013; in 2014 Senate House Library joined the [[School of Advanced Study]]. There are now four independent libraries in the School of Advanced Study: Senate House Library and the libraries of the [[Institute of Advanced Legal Studies]], the [[Institute of Classical Studies]], the [[Institute of Historical Research]] and the [[Warburg Institute]].

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://www.london.ac.uk/about/services/senate-house-library Senate House Library]

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