The British Library has a directory of library codes used by UK registered 
users of it's Document Supply service. The Directory of Library Codes enables 
British Library customers to convert into names and addresses the library codes 
they are given in response to location searches. It also indicates each 
library's supply and charging policies. More information at 
http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/atyourdesk/docsupply/help/replycodes/dirlibcodes/

As far as I know the only format this data has ever been made available in is 
PDF. I've always thought this a shame, so I've written a scraper on scraperwiki 
to extract the data from the PDF and make it available as structured, 
query-able, data. The scraper and output is at 
https://scraperwiki.com/scrapers/british_library_directory_of_library_codes/

Just in case anyone would find it useful. Also any suggestions for improving 
the scraper welcome (I don't usually write Python so the code is probably even 
ropier than my normal code :)

Owen

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