ANOTHER chapter has been completed in the Bodleian Library’s multi-million-pound plans to upgrade its Oxford facilities. In 2008, the world-famous library was blocked by the city council in its bid to ...

One titillating, new library collection has the whole world watching. The University of Oxford's Bodleian Library exhibit, Story of Phi: Restricted Books, displays a collection of "obscene" literature ...

Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries have only had three chair designs in the past 400 years. Here’s the latest. “After spending a day at the library it became apparent there are some pretty unusual ...

This year marks five centuries since the death of Aldus Manutius, an Italian humanist who forever changed the direction of publishing, and got in one of its first copyright squabbles. Aldus was a ...

At Oxford University, there are over 100 libraries and collections, including ancient ones and new ones. Among the 100 libraries, Bodleian library is the main research library of the University. Using ...

Without memories, and the chance to dwell on them and sift them affectionately but sensibly, we lose our true sense of ourselves, and we go collectively insane. That is the chief justification for ...

Hollie Goodall and Nick Britten 13 June 2012 • 7:00am Plans are being discussed to allow students to borrow books from the Bodeian for the first time, and the very idea has caused a stir amongst ...

When the Bodleian Library in Oxford opened its doors in 1602 it was the answer to a big headache. Existing medieval institutions had no more room for books. But just 10 years later it was forced to ...

The Vatican Library and Oxford University’s Bodleian Library have put the first of 1.5 million pages of ancient manuscripts online. The two libraries in 2012 announced a four-year project to digitize ...