Senate House, the headquarters of the Senate House Libraries
TheSenate House Libraries (SHL), formerlyThe University of London Research Library Services, was a group oflibraries based inBloomsbury which together comprised an extensive research collection across thehumanities andsocial sciences. It existed under this name from 2011 to 2013.
SHL was a division of theUniversity of London, headquartered atSenate House onRussell 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 theSchool 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 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.
