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Founded in 1914 the EFL serves the needs of all those reading and teaching English at Oxford, as well as others requiring access to its collections
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Guides to services and resources

We have produced a number of guides to assist with using our services and resources
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Opening hours

Term: Mon-Fri 9.00-19.00,
Sat 10.00-13.00

Vacation: Mon-Fri 9.00-17.00,
Sat Closed

Full details of opening hours

Location

English Faculty Library
St. Cross Building
Manor Road
OX1 3UQ

The Library will be open as normal, 9.00-19.00, on the late May bank holiday, Monday 27th.

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For Students

Information and services for current undergraduate and taught postgraduate students.

For Researchers

Information for research staff and students.

EFL News and Reader Notices rss

Queen Victoria's Journals Wikipedia Editathon: 24 May 2013

Thursday, 16 May 2013
Survey: use of desks in Bodleian Library reading rooms [PDF]

Thursday, 2 May 2013
May bank holidays - library opening hours

Monday, 29 April 2013
New Saturday book delivery service during Trinity Term

Monday, 22 April 2013
May Bank Holidays: Bodleian Library opening hours and book service

Tuesday, 2 April 2013
Two major E-book Collection trials: EBSCO's Academic Collection and Ebrary's Academic Complete

Friday, 22 March 2013
Update: Paying fines

Monday, 18 March 2013
The Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival: 16 - 24 March 2013

Tuesday, 12 March 2013
Scan & Deliver extended to all readers

Monday, 11 March 2013
Radcliffe Camera stone refurbishment

Thursday, 7 March 2013

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EFL New books rss

Olivia Manning: A Woman at War by Deirdre David

Defending Poetry: Art and Ethics in Joseph Brodsky, Seamus Heaney, and Geoffrey Hill (Oxford English Monographs) by David-Antoine Williams

Sigmund Freud's the Interpretation of Dreams: New Interdisciplinary Essays (Texts in Culture) by Laura Marcus

Word on the Street

Jane Austen the Reader: The Artist as Critic by Olivia Murphy

The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry since 1945 (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Jennifer Ashton

The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley

Speak, Old Parrot by Dannie Abse

Epistolary Community in Print, 1580-1664 (Material Readings in Early Modern Culture) by Diana G. Barnes

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Bodleian Libraries newsrss

NEW EXHIBITION: Magical Books: from the Middle Ages to Middle-earth

Thursday, 23 May 2013
Sarah Thomas to lead Harvard Library

Monday, 20 May 2013
Bodleian acquires manuscript of Hopkins poem 'Binsey Poplars'

Thursday, 2 May 2013
THE Student Experience Survey ranks Oxford libraries number one

Tuesday, 30 April 2013
Bodleian's unique copy of Shakespeare's plays gets a new lease of life online

Monday, 22 April 2013
Margaret Thatcher: A look at her life through the Conservative Party Archive

Thursday, 11 April 2013
Bodleian Libraries to save the nation's digital memory

Friday, 5 April 2013
RBC Funds New Visiting Fellowships at the Bodleian Libraries

Tuesday, 2 April 2013
Novelist Hilary Mantel awarded Bodley Medal

Tuesday, 26 March 2013
NEW from BODLEIAN PUBLISHING: Roy Strong Self-portrait as a Young Man

Monday, 18 March 2013
WORLD BOOK DAY: View Shirley Hughes Artwork Today

Thursday, 7 March 2013
Bodleian Libraries � LibQUAL+ Survey 2012

Thursday, 28 February 2013
Oxfam donates archive to the Bodleian Libraries

Monday, 25 February 2013
Update on Bodleian's Fundraising Campaign to acquire the Fox Talbot archive

Thursday, 14 February 2013
Historic rivals join forces to save 1,000 years of Jewish history

Friday, 8 February 2013
Non-Print Legal Deposit regulations laid before parliament

Friday, 8 February 2013
Bodleian Library commemorates its founder

Monday, 28 January 2013
New publication reveals changes at the Bodleian

Wednesday, 16 January 2013
Bodleian secures half the funds needed to acquire the Personal Archive of William Henry Fox Talbot

Tuesday, 8 January 2013
Sprint for Shakespeare crosses the finishing line!

Wednesday, 19 December 2012
New Bodleian exhibition featuring rare Persian manuscripts

Wednesday, 5 December 2012
Parliament Week 19 - 25 November

Tuesday, 20 November 2012
C4 News video on the publication of the Bodleian's Titanic collection

Friday, 16 November 2012
An update from Bodley's Librarian - 7 Nov 2012

Thursday, 8 November 2012
Day-Lewis archive donated to the Bodleian Libraries

Tuesday, 30 October 2012