Foreign and Commonwealth Office and predecessors: Library and Records Department...

FCO 12

1967-1996

This series consists of the administrative records of the Library Department of the Commonwealth Office, the Library of the Foreign Office, and their successor in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Libraries and the Library and Records Department.

Arrangement is by former file reference within annual file cycles: the first cycle of Commonwealth Office and Foreign Office files covers January 1967 to October 1968, and the first cycle of Foreign and Commonwealth Office files covers October 1968 to December 1969. Thereafter the file cycles are annual.

For earlier Foreign Office Library records see FO 370

For earlier Commonwealth Office (and predecessor Commonwealth Relations Office) Library Department records see: DO 191 DO 192

Records of the India Office Library and Records Section are now held in the Oriental and Indian Office Collection, British Library.

CL, L and LR file series

Public Record(s)

English

• Commonwealth Office, Library Department, 1967-1968
• Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Libraries, 1968-1969
• Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Library and Records Department, 1969-1999
• Foreign Office, Library, 1959-1968

485 file(s)

Open unless otherwise stated

From 1999 Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Topics

International

Series is accruing

These departments dealt with the provision of library services, the distribution of publications to overseas posts, and the preparation of the Commonwealth Office Year Book and Foreign Office List to October 1968, and the Diplomatic Service Year Book from October 1968. Records management services were taken over from the Diplomatic Service Administration Office in October 1968, and the Department was subsequently responsible for translation services.

The India Office Library and Records Section, inherited from the Commonwealth Office, was not absorbed into the FCO Library, and continued as a separate section of the FCO until it was transferred to the British Museum in 1982, at which time its records were deposited with the British Library Board.