"Red floor" on the "confusingly named" John Rylands University Library. Photo: Anamika Parmar ('Photograph by courtesy of the University Librarian and Director, The John Rylands University Library, The University of Manchester')

New name for John Rylands University Library to prevent “confusion”

The building will be renamed ‘The University of Manchester Library’ starting from this summer

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