Letter: It's not that far

BRIAN LANG, Chief Executive of the British Library, writes (letter, 23 March) that "a researcher's work would be considerably hampered by the need to trail back and forth across London between separate buildings housing the range of references being consulted".

The distance between the British Museum and the new library is, at most, three-quarters of a mile. I hope Mr Lang's bibiographic knowledge is better than his geographic.

BARRY COLE

London EC1