John Rylands Library Rylands Research Institute was relaunched in 2014 as a collaboration between the University of Manchester's Faculty of Humanities and the John Rylands Library. The mission of the Institute is to open up the Library's Special Collections to innovative and multidisciplinary research, in partnership with researchers in Manchester and across the globe. In September 2016, Hannah Barker, Professor of British History, took up the role as Director of the John Rylands Research Institute She succeeded Prof. Peter Pormann who had been appointed Director of the John Rylands Research Institute in 2013. Mrs Rylands established a board of trustees to hold the
City and University Library in Osijek founder was City Library, so it expanded its activities and assumed functions of university library, so it changed name to "City and University Library of Osijek", which it still carries. City and University Library in Osijek The City and University Library of Osijek () is the city library of Osijek and the central library of the University of Osijek. It is the biggest library in Slavonia and one of the bigger ones in Croatia. The City and University Library of Osijek was established as "Osijek City Library" () on 8 February 1949, by decision of City national committee of the