Bodleian Library, University of Oxford

Oxford, England, UK

Contacts

Department of Special Collections & Western Manuscripts ;Bodleian Library;Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BG

Phone: 01865 277158;Fax: 01865 277182;Email: western.manuscripts@bodley.ox.ac.uk

http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/

Description

The Bodleian Library is the main research library of the University of Oxford. It is also a copyright deposit library and its collections are used by scholars from around the world.

The central buildings include Duke Humfrey's Library above the Divinity School, the Old Schools Quadrangle with its Great Gate and Tower, the Radcliffe Camera, Britains first circular library, and the Clarendon Building.

In addition, the Bodleian has seven dependent libraries, in separate locations in Oxford: the Bodleian Japanese Library, the Bodleian Law Library, the Indian Institute Library, the Oriental Institute Library, Rhodes House Library, the Radcliffe Science Library, and the Philosophy Library.