In 2001, the British Library of Political and Economic Science completed its two year building redevelopment. The Library is now in a modern environment that it had been in desperate need of. This article looks at the building, the layout of collections and services, public study spaces and office space. A view of how the Library works after three years in a new environment.

Ann Lees explains the background to the move of Kings College Library from the Strand to its new headquarters in the very imposing former Public Records Office building in Chancery Lane and shares with us some of the delights of her new residence.

Rochelle Rawlinson outlines her experiences as the Lovells' London office's library manager when its library research team, the main library, and group libraries, moved to a new building in July 2002. She looks at the lead up to the move and its aftermath including a merger of the information teams. An underlying theme is managing and dealing with change.

Clare Monk and the library team at US law firm Sidley Austin recount their experiences of merging two physically separate library sites into one and the advantages of their brand new location.

In October 2004 Google announced the availability of its Google Search Appliance throughout Europe. It is an integrated hardware and software search solution that enables corporations, universities and government agencies to deliver Google-quality search results on their intranets and public websites. Google are promoting its key features as: relevant results (as it leverages many of the same search algorithms as Google.com); familiarity with the Google search; ease of deployment and administration; a continuous crawl; and enterprise security.

At the 2004 BIALL Conference the Legal Online Resources Database (LORD) was finally launched. LORD is still growing and demonstrates a practical benefit of developing a good working relationship with the legal publishing profession. Ann Hemming gives an outline of the project to date.