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Contact

Taylor Institution Library
tel: +44 (0)1865 278158
email: enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Collection overview

Oxford University's Modern Languages collections are among the largest in the UK. They serve an active teaching, learning and research community across the full chronological range and into most areas of linguistic and literary study. Subjects covered are: French (including Occitan), German (including Yiddish), Italian, Spanish (Iberian and Latin American), Portuguese (including Brazilian), Russian, Czech, Polish and other Slavonic languages, Medieval and Modern Greek, Celtic, Catalan, Galician, Sardinian, Rheto-Romance, Romanian and Linguistics.

Libraries and reading rooms

Principal collections

The Taylor Institution Library provides the principal resource for teaching, learning and research in Modern Languages other than English.

Associated collections

The Bodleian Library's legal deposit collection constitutes a significant reference resource for material published predominantly in the UK and North America.  Before the opening of the Taylorian in 1848, the Bodleian also acquired foreign language material by purchase.  The University Language Centre Library has a range of textbooks, videos, magazines and other materials for the learning of foreign languages.

Important e-resources

Intute for Modern languages gives access to a range of high quality electronic resources.  A major bibliographical research tool (for locating e.g. journal articles and book reviews) is the MLA Bibliography, accessible through OXLIP+.

Other links

More detailed information is available on individual subjects, from the collections pages of the Taylor Institution Library website and from Subject Librarians.

See also the Modern Languages Faculty and the Linguistics Faculty websites.