Bulletin of the John Rylands Library Bulletin of the John Rylands Library The Bulletin of the John Rylands Library is a journal published by Manchester University Press. Articles are meant to enhance the "scholarship and understanding" of the collections of the John Rylands Library. The journal was established in 1903, and has been published by MUP since 2014. The founding editor was Henry Guppy, while the current editor is Paul Fouracre. Dr Guppy began publication of the "Bulletin of the John Rylands Library" in 1903; it later became a journal publishing academic articles and from autumn 1972 the title was changed to the "Bulletin of the
University of Manchester Library of the John Rylands Library, enabled the building of a tent-like octagonal hall next to the library, the Muriel Stott Conference Centre (on the building of the extension this was enclosed by the rest of the library). The design of the extension was modified when actually implemented in 1979 so that a link section united it with the three-wing existing library building. This new extension opened in the autumn term of 1981 and at the same time the medical and science (Christie) libraries were vacated so that a more coherent organisation of stock became possible. By the time this building