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Exhibitions, Cafe and Shop. Open daily in Oxford. | Bodleian Libraries

Exhibitions, Cafe and Shop. Open daily in Oxford. | Bodleian Libraries

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Discover the Bodleian Libraries: A Literary Treasure

Discover the Bodleian Libraries: A Literary Treasure

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Bodleian Libraries - Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia

Bodleian Libraries - Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia

Duke Humfrey's Library is the oldest Reading Room at the Bodleian Library. Parts of it date back to the 15th century. You might recognise it from Harry Potter or A Discovery of Witches. And if you visit, you might just get the eerie feeling that you're being watched. Happy Halloween, booklovers. | Bodleian Libraries

Duke Humfrey's Library is the oldest Reading Room at the Bodleian Library. Parts of it date back to the 15th century. You might recognise it from Harry Potter or A Discovery of Witches. And if you visit, you might just get the eerie feeling that you're being watched. Happy Halloween, booklovers. | Bodleian Libraries

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Using the Bodleian Old Library

Evie Chandler is a Library Assistant here at the Bodleian Libraries and recently she’s taken centre stage with a book display that’s striking all the right chords. Think hearts singing, queues forming, and readers humming show tunes as they pass by. Inspired by the viral success of Rachel Zegler’s West End performance in Evita (in which the Hunger Games star portrays the former First Lady of Argentina, Eva Perón), Evie curated a selection of books from the History Faculty collection with connect

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"The first Persian manuscript came into the library in 1602, just after Sir Thomas Bodley had renewed the University Library." A new series of five short films celebrate our upcoming 'Persian Arts of the Book' conference. View all the films in full on the Bodleian Libraries YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMMT6JPEQdLqza_9NRA3XESQbpA9zyw3S The online conference takes place Tue 13- Wed 14 July and is free to join! Book your place here: https://visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/pers

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Print & Deliver

We're thrilled that the Duke Humfrey's Library has been shortlisted as one of the Top 10 Most Beautiful Libraries in the World by 1000 Libraries, but we need your help to make the top 10! Please vote for the Duke Humfrey's Library here: https://1000libraries.pro.typeform.com/to/TdFzuF5W?utm_source=travelguide&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=xxxxx&typeform-source=www.1000libraries.com. Thank you! Video by student IG:@polinas_pages. | Bodleian Libraries

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🚨 Tomorrow! 🚨 Join us at the Weston Library for a special event to celebrate the final few weeks of our exhibition on all things Divination (from witchcraft to astrology, tarot to palm reading, and everything in between). Unlike our exhibition curator, we aren't trained in the art of spider divination. But we know you're going to love it. For more information: https://visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/apr25/oracles-omens-answers-day | Bodleian Libraries

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We’re hiring. TWO Senior Managers in Bodleian Collections Management 🕒 FT | 💼 Permanent | 📍 Oxford | 🏡 Hybrid working An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the newly formed senior leadership team in Collections Management. We are transforming how we work to better serve our users and reflect the evolving needs of the library and information sector. To help with this transformation, we are seeking two strategic leaders to strengthen team alignment as we take Collections Management into i

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🎁 It's the Bodleian's birthday but we're gifting YOU with a reminder from @richard_ovenden of all the fantastic things you can do for free at @oxford_uni sites! Tag a friend, enemy or secret crush you’d love to visit these places with (but don’t tell them which category they fall into) 📍 The Museum of Natural History 📍 Pitt Rivers Museum 📍 The Ashmolean Museum 📍 History of Science Museum 📍 Exhibitions at the Weston Library | Bodleian Libraries

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Fantasy authors 🤝 The Bodleian Libraries. J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Lewis Carroll, Susan Cooper, Diana Wynne Jones, Alan Garner, Philip Pullman...who's your favourite fantasy writer from Oxford? With thanks to one of our newest, @jamiecassauthor, for this video from his favourite writing spot inside Duke Humfrey's library. | Bodleian Libraries

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The Bodleian Libraries have unveiled a new digital resource that provides improved access to our Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Manchu collections. The East Asian Manuscripts and Rare Books catalogue—now live at https://east-asian.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/ an important step forward in how scholars and the public can explore the library’s historic holdings. Many of the items in the catalogue are digitised and can be accessed by using the weblink, or at digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk. We are working to make mo

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The Bodleian Libraries celebrate 10 years of the Weston Library with unveiling of newly discovered royal manuscript

New display at the Weston Library! 'The Lighted Window' is free to view in the Transept at the far end of Blackwell Hall and features a joy-sparking collection of the Bodleian's transparencies. Transparencies are coloured prints, varnished on the reverse and designed to be lit from behind (originally with an oil lamp or candle, though we now use LED lights) to reveal a captivating illuminated affect. Beautiful as they are, once backlit the transparencies magically reveal hidden colours and glowi

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Swear not to kindle fire or flame? A requirement of getting a Bodleian reader's card is reciting Thomas Bodley's oath. This morning, in an induction session in Convocation House, we invited a group of new readers to read the oath out loud! Our friendly Admissions team also gave the readers the opportunity to declare it again, one by one, in their language of choice. The oath is now available in more than 100 languages (including Latin), meaning that many new readers choose to take the oath in th

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The University of Oxford's Bodleian Libraries and the German library, Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel, have embarked upon a new collaborative digitization project, set to open up repositories of medieval manuscripts from German-speaking lands. 18,000 images have already been posted to the project website with hundreds of thousands more to be digitized and made freely available online to researchers and the public worldwide over the next three years. https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/news/20

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Chinese Collections at the Bodleian Libraries

Getting to the Bodleian Old Library and Weston Library

Our Magna Carta display is currently open in Blackwell Hall at the Weston Library. Visit for free and learn more about one of the most controversial documents in British history. | Bodleian Libraries

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View the Divinity School's 600-year-old ceiling in never-before-seen detail as medieval craftsmanship meets cutting-edge technology. 16,000 images, expert knowledge across the ages, and half a millennia of history helped make this video. Around 16000 images and untold hours of processing later, the 600-year-old Divinity School ceiling at the Bodleian Library now has a high-resolution 3D model! Three of the bosses - decorative protrusions on a ceiling - have been recreated as full-size physical f

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Take a tour of the historic... - University of Oxford

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