Browse The British Library Amongst Leaflet Maps

You tin post away straight off browse through the British Library's mass collection on an interactive Leaflet.js map. OK - yous can't genuinely browse through the whole 25 1 chiliad one thousand books inwards the British Library simply yous tin post away explore a map of the 4,300 books that are currently stored inwards the Library basements at St Pancras. This is an expanse which is non unremarkably opened upwardly to the public.

Elastic System is genuinely a piece of occupation of fine art past times Richard Wright produced inwards collaboration amongst the British Library. The fine art piece of occupation uses Leaflet.js together with photos of the spines of 4,300 books to practise an interactive portrait of Thomas Watt. In 1840 Watt developed an 'elastic system' of storage to aid the British Library deal amongst the huge seat out of books it owned. To practise his interactive mapped portrait Richard Wright has rearranged 4,300 books past times the color of their spines thus that they resemble an 1851 portrait of Watt.

The books that brand upwardly the portrait are fully interactive. If yous click on a mass on the map an information window opens providing the book's championship together with author. The artwork is every bit good a fully surgery library catalog. While yous browse the books inwards the collection yous tin post away lodge books from the British Library past times selecting a mass on the map together with clicking on the 'I desire this' link. When a mass is requested it is together with thus removed from the virtual shelves of the 'Elastic System' interactive map. When books are removed from the map they every bit good break or thus other icon behind the mass portrait of Thomas Watt. This hidden icon shows the British Library employees busy at piece of occupation behind the scenes.