The Slavonic and East European Studies Collections in Oxford: Language, literature and culture

 

 

 

1. Introduction

This guide offers information on the Slavonic and East European collections in three libraries: The Taylor Bodleian Slavonic and Modern Greek Library (TABS) located at 47, Wellington Square, The Taylor Institution Library or Taylorian (in St Giles) and the Bodleian Library (1 Broad St) as they relate to Slavonic and East European language, literature and culture. The main focus in this guide will be on TABS. It is part of the Taylor Institution Library but, unlike the rest of the Taylorian, the subject specialist expertise of its staff includes social sciences, history and geography. For the latter subject areas see the Russian and East European Area studies guide.  The only East European language covered by the Main Taylor (as opposed to TABS) is Romanian. TABS also houses a Modern Greek language and literature collection. The Language Centre Library which offers language learning materials for all languages including the Slavonic and East European ones (12, Woodstock Rd) is located inside the Language Centre. Staff in all of these libraries (see below) will be happy to give further information and assistance.

2. Subject specialist staff

Nick Hearn (Subject consultant in Slavonic Language, Literature and Culture) Tel. (2)70462 (TABS), (2)78159 (Main Taylor) Email: nick.hearn@odleian.ox.ac.uk

Angelina Gibson (Subject consultant in Slavonic and East European social sciences, history and geography) Tel. (2)70468 (TABS)Email:  angelina.gibson@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Barbara Bajwojtowicz (Regional Slavonic and East European specialist (Central, Southern and Western Slavonic countries) with additional responsibility for the Baltic States and Albania) Tel. (2)70467 Email: barbara.bajwojtowicz@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Adina Bradeanu (Romanian Subject Specialist)Email:  adina.bradeanu@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Zsuzsanna Varga (Hungarian subject specialist) zsuzsanna.varga@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Lucile Deslignères (Librarian of Language Centre) Tel. (2)83362 Email: lucile.deslignères@lang.ox.ac.uk

NB: Hungarian and Romanian subject specialists are only available for consultation one day per month.

3. Slavonic and East european language and literature collections in Oxford

The Taylor Institution Library was founded in 1847 but although some Slavonic material was acquired in the 19th and early 20th centuries this came for the most part in the form of donations. Titles were only systematically acquired in the Slavonic and East European subject area after the Second World War. The Slavonic and East European language and literature collections in TABS comprise about 120,000 volumes covering all Slavonic languages and including a number of non-Slavonic ones, for example, Albanian and the Baltic languages (Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian), Hungarian and Romanian. The Romanian collection is in the Main Taylorian (but there is also language and literature material in the Bodleian). The Hungarian collection including language and literature is mostly in the Bodleian but may be ordered to TABS using ASR (Automated Stack Request) where it will be kept on reserve behind the Issue Desk for consultation by readers within TABS. Neither of these languages are included in the 120,000 volumes mentioned above.  The Bodleian Library has much to offer for Slavonic language and literary studies as, though it does not collect in the fields of language and literature, it nevertheless holds periodicals and books relevant to Slavonic (and East European) language and literature. It receives many of these books and periodicals as a matter of course as a legal deposit library. Its collections supplement and sometimes duplicate the Taylorian collections and include translations, critical works and biography in English. TABS will, on a case by case basis, buy borrowable copies of critical, biographical and linguistic works in English (in addition to the reference-only Bodleian legal deposit copy). Translations, however, are not generally bought by TABS. Slavonic and East European language and literature material in the Bodleian may not be borrowed but may be consulted in one of the Bodleian reading rooms and, if published after 1850, may be ordered to TABS by ASR.

Location of open-shelf collections

The main research and teaching collections in Slavonic and East European language and literature are at TABS. There are two main collections at TABS: The Faculty Library (or ‘Undergraduate Library’) for the use primarily but not exclusively of undergraduates is located on the Ground Floor of the Library at 47, Wellington Square. The Slavonic and East European (except Czech and Slovak) Research Collection housed in the Basement is only open to postgraduates and academics but undergraduates may borrow from it. In this case, books will be fetched by library staff. The separate Czech and Slovak open-access Research Collection is located on the 2nd Floor of TABS. The Taylor and Bodleian reference collections on the 1st Floor each with its own classification scheme are open-access but reference-only. The Bodleian reference collection complements the Taylor Research Collection (language and literature) with its holdings of dictionaries, encyclopaedias, history and reference works relating to current affairs. The periodicals collection also on the 1st Floor offers some of the 180 current periodicals covering the full range of Slavonic languages and literature. Periodicals not in the Reading Room will be found interfiled with the monographs in the Research Collections in the Basement (and with the Czech and Slovak ones on the 2nd Floor). Substantial back-runs of periodicals are held at the Repository and volumes will need to be ordered to TABS by ASR. There are also several runs of Bodleian history periodicals at TABS but most may be ordered to TABS from the Bodleian using ASR. Periodical volumes, both Taylorian and Bodleian, are not borrowable at TABS.

Summary of collection strengths by subject

TABS provides material primarily in the subject areas of Slavonic and East European linguistics (not general linguistics), literature and reference. We acquire material to a lesser extent on bibliography, folklore, and some background material on art, history, music, philosophy and religion. Our film collection is small and films are acquired only if they relate to literary texts. Although TABS has small collections relating to art, history, music, philosophy and religion works in these subject areas are also to be found in other libraries within the Oxford library system. The first port of call will always be the Bodleian (1 Broad St) which has reference-only material in all of these subject areas. However, there are related art holdings in the Sackler Library (1 St John St), history holdings in the History Faculty Library (34 Broad St.), music holdings at the Music Faculty Library (St Aldate’s), philosophy holdings in the Philosophy Faculty Library (10 Merton St) and history of religion and theology holdings at the Theology Faculty Library (41, St Giles). The Modern Language Faculty Library (MLFL) in the Taylor Institution Library has a good collection of borrowable Slavonic and East European films (usually with English sub-titles) which may with certain restrictions be borrowed by members of the Modern Languages Faculty. It also has a good collection of books and periodicals on Slavonic and East European film. See the Guide to Oxford’s film collections. For language learning materials, the Language Centre (12 Woodstock Rd) has comprehensive coverage of all languages including Slavonic and East European. TABS has only a small collection of borrowable language learning materials. For more information about collection strengths see the Slavonic and East European collection development policy document available on the Slavonic (and East European) language and literature subject web page.

Holdings

The Slavonic holdings of Oxford libraries (at the Bodleian and the Taylorian and including the college libraries) are among the strongest in the UK. In terms of the number of Slavonic and East European literary periodicals (both in English and in the vernacular) to which we subscribe, TABS has one of the richest (if not the richest) collections in the country. The TABS Slavonic collections in Russian literature make it one of the principal libraries in the UK in this subject area.

Electronic resources

Subscriptions to several major on-line bibliographic databases relevant to the Slavonic language and literature subject area include

4. Collection strengths by language and language group

General Slavonic

There is a good selection of journals on the open shelves in the TABS Reading Room devoted to general Slavonic literature and linguistics at the shelf-mark PG1. There is also a section on general Slavonic linguistics in the Research Collection in the Basement. The collections have been greatly strengthened by the loan of the personal libraries of past professors of Slavonic and Russian literature. We are fortunate to have the personal library of Professor Morfill (1834 - 1909), who was the first Professor of Russian at Oxford. This collection was placed in the Taylorian on loan by the Queen’s College in 1936 and includes many first editions of late 19th-century writers from a wide variety of Slavonic (and non-Slavonic) countries. Other former professors who left their personal libraries (also containing material relevant to Slavonic studies in its widest sense) include Professor Nevill Forbes (1883-1929), Professor Robert Auty (1914-1978) (1500 vols) and Professor Anne Pennington (1934-1981), (1000 vols). These donors are described in Professor Gerald Stone's History of Slavonic Studies at Oxford. 

The policy at TABS is to encompass all Slavonic and East European languages in our language and literature coverage. In some cases, such as Belarusian and Ukrainian, coverage is at a fairly low base level. Forthe Baltic languages (Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian and Old Prussian), the emphasis is on language rather than literature. For Southern Slavonic languages Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Slovenian, Macedonian and Bulgarian, the aim is to concentrate on language but acquire a representative collection of literature. The following is a full listing of all the languages covered at TABS (including Modern Greek).

Indo – European

Slavonic: Belarusian, Bulgarian, Cassubian, Croatian, Czech,

Macedonian, Old Church Slavonic, Polabian, Polish,

Russian, Rusyn, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Sorbian,

Ukrainian.

Baltic: Latvian, Lithuanian, Old Prussian.

Romance: Moldavian.

Albanian.

Byzantine, Mediaeval and Modern Greek.

Non Indo - European

Finno - Ugric: Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian: small collections.

There are additionally a few books in Armenian and Georgian, and a small, but important collection of books in Karamanlidika (Turkish printed in the Greek alphabet).

Publications describing the collections or relating to them

Auty, R. Sixteenth-century Croatian Glagolitic books in the Bodleian Library. Oxford Slavonic Papers, n.s.11, 1978, pp.130-135 TAS DK1.O989=R

Barnicot, J.D.A. The Slavonic manuscripts in the Bodleian, Bodleian Library Record, 1 (2), 1938, pp.30-33. B1.042 BOD LRR GEN.Z792.O94

Barnicot, J.D.A. & Simmons, J.S.G. Some unrecorded early-printed Slavonic books in English libraries.

Oxford Slavonic Papers, 2, 1952, pp. 98-118.TAS DK1.O989=R

Cleminson, R. A union catalogue of Cyrillic manuscripts in British and Irish collections: the Anne Pennington catalogue. London: School of Slavonic and East European Studies University of London, 1988 TAS Z791.A1.1988.C6

Cleminson, R. Cyrillic books printed before 1701 in British and Irishcollections: a union catalogue London: The British Library, 2000TAS SIMM. Z1013.2000.C9

Drage, C.L. Russian and Church Slavonic books 1701 – 1800 in United Kingdom libraries: a list with bibliographical references, locations, notes and indices. London, 1984. Includes Taylorian books and periodicals (thefourth largest collection in Britain).TAS Z2492.3.1984.D7=R

Howells, D.L.L Old Church Slavonic books and series in the TaylorInstitution Library Oxford, 1984

TAS O.PAMPH. Z924.T24.1980

Howells, D.L.L. Reader’s guide: Slavonic and Greek collections Oxford, 1991

Hughes, Jill  Taylor Institution Library: history of the library and its collections 1999

Simmons, J.S.G. Notes on the Slavonic collections in the Library of theTaylor Institution, Oxford. Oxford, 1969 [typescript]. TAS PAMPH.Z924.T24.S5

Simmons, J.S.G. ‘Slavica Tayloriana Oxoniensia’. In: Cahiers du monderusse et soviétique, X, 1969: 536 - 545.TAS PERS DK2.C25=R

Stone, Gerald Slavonic studies at Oxford: a brief history  Oxford, 2005

Tadin, M. Glagolitic manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Oxford Slavonic Papers, 4, 1953, pp.151-158 and 5, 1954, pp.133-144 TAS DK1.O989=R

The languages listed and discussed in more detail below are the ones in which the library specializes or are otherwise noteworthy.

Albanian

We have a small trust fund ear-marked for the acquisition of Albanian materials. Our Albanian collection was until quite recently held in the special collections room but will become available to readers within the main research collections in the basement at TABS. TABS collects beyond language and literature in Albanian with books on history and travels also being acquired. There is also an important Albanian collection in the Bodleian library from which items may be ordered to TABS by ASR.

Subject Specialist

Barbara Bajwojtowicz barbara.bajwojtowicz@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

 

Bulgarian and Macedonian

TABS has a good representative collection of Bulgarian and Macedonian material. The Macedonian collection was greatly enhanced by a donation received in 1979.

Subject Specialist

Nick Hearn nick.hearn@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Bibliography

Rendzov, M. Macedonian books: catalogue [ of the exhibition held in Bradford and Oxford, Nov. 1979]. [Skopje, 1979]. The books were subsequently presented to the Library.TAS PAMPH.Z2965.1979

 

Czech and Slovak

The Czech and Slovak collections were much enhanced by the transfer of much of the Comenius Library from Lancaster University (modern Czech literature, ca 4000 vols) in the early 1980s. Czech and Slovak periodicals are available in the Reading Room on the 1st Floor but the main language and literature reference collection for Czech and Slovak is on the 2nd Floor within the main Czech and Slovak Research Collection. There are some early printed Bohemian works in the Special Collections room as well as important early editions of 19th-century works in the named collections in the same place.

Subject Specialist

Barbara Bajwojtowicz barbara.bajwojtowicz@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Hungarian

The Hungarian collections are mostly housed in the Bodleian Library as the Bodleian formerly included Hungarian language and literature in its remit. College libraries should not be forgotten. Harris Manchester College has a Hungarian collection (mainly theological works). Books may be ordered from the Bodleian to the TABS Reading Room by ASR. However, due to a change in policy, recent Hungarian publications will become increasingly available in the Research Collection in the Basement at TABS. Books relating to Hungarian language and literature continue to be actively acquired.

Subject Specialist

Zsuzsanna Varga (Hungarian subject specialist) zsuzsanna.varga@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Bibliography

Evans, R.J.W. Hungarica in the Bodleian: a historical sketch. Bodleian Library Record, 9, 1978, pp 333-345.

Polish

The collection of modern Polish literature has been much enhanced by important donations from Mrs Maria Danilewicz–Zielinska. Although Polish is a degree-level subject at Oxford the Faculty Library has, as yet, only a basic collection of Polish material so undergraduates studying Polish will have frequent recourse to the Research Collections. There are several runs of important current Polish literary and linguistic journals (as well as reference works) in the Reading Room. Some important 19th-century editions of Polish literary works are held in the named collections in the Special Collections Room. There is an important collection of early Polish material in the Bodleian (among other language and literature holdings). This is the personal library of the Polish librarian and scholar Jozef Lukaszewicz (1797-1873) (see Florczak 1992).

Subject Specialist

Barbara Bajwojtowicz barbara.bajwojtowicz@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Bibliography

Florczak, Z. Libri Polonici. Bodleian Library Record 14(3), 1992, pp.207-227 BOD LRR GEN.Z792.O94

Howells, D.L.L. Polish pre-1800 imprints at the Taylorian Oxford, 1991 TAS .PAMPH.Z924.T24.1991.P7

Russian

There are strong holdings of the published works of 19th- and 20th- century literary authors including almost all the major new editions of individual texts and collected works as they are published. Acquisition of critical works in Russian and all Western and Eastern European languages is as comprehensive as is possible within the constraints of the budget and the vagaries of Russian publishing. The Reading Room on the 1st Floor houses a wide variety of current Russian literary and linguistic periodicals, some of which are available on-line as e-journals. A wide selection of current newspapers can be accessed on-line using the On-line Database of Russian Newspapers and Parliamentary Publications. There is also a good selection of Russian bilingual and monolingual dictionaries, biographical dictionaries and encyclopaedias in the Reading Room. However, some older or more specialized reference material (especially dictionaries) is on the shelves of the Research Collection in the Basement (or at the Repository). The Russian collections have runs of important 19th- and early 20th- century cultural periodicals. They are enhanced by books from the personal libraries of such scholars as Professors Morfill and Auty. The library of Professor S.S. Koteliansky is a good example. It came to the Taylorian after his death in 1955 and consists of about 100 rare volumes of Russian pre-Revolutionary, Soviet and émigré literature, many of them signed presentation copies from their authors. The earliest book in Cyrillic is a Kanonnik (Moscow, 1646), and there is a notable collection of Russian books of the 18th century, including Magnitski’s Arifmetika (Moscow, 1703) and Polikarpov’s Leksikon treiazychnyi (Moscow, 1704). The majority of the 18th-century Russian and Church Slavonic books are recorded by C.L.Drage (see Drage, 1984).

Subject Specialist

Nick Hearn nick.hearn@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Bibliography

Russian books from the Bodleian’s Pre-1920 catalogue. Bodleian Library, 1990 BOD MO5.F11502

Cross, A.G. An exhibition of eighteenth-century books of Anglo-Russian interest from the Morfill Collection in the Taylor Institution Library, University of Oxford, 10th June 1978, [Typescript] TAS F.DK128.163.5.G78.1978

Drage, C.L. Russian and Church Slavonic books 1701 – 1800 in United Kingdom libraries: a list with bibliographical references, locations, notes and indices. London, 1984. Includes Taylorian books and periodicals.TAS Z2492.3.1984.D7=R

Hartley, J.M. Guide to documents and manuscripts in the United Kingdom relating to Russia and the Soviet Union. London, 1987.pp345-358 BOD PS.2.U.17

Howells, D.L.L. Pasternak at the Taylorian: a catalogue of materials by and about Boris Leonidovich Pasternak compiled in honour of the visit of Academician D.S.Likhachev, November 1987. [Oxford, 1987]. TAS O.PG3476.P27.Z8.1987

Howells, D.L.L. Russian émigré serials 1855 - 1990 in Oxford Libraries: materials for a union catalogue. Oxford, 1990. The Taylorian holds the largest Oxford collection of this material. TAS PAMPH.Z2495.1990.H8

Romanian

Our Romanian collections are housed in the Research Collection in the Basement of the main Taylorian (but some Romanian language and literature material is in the Bodleian). This is a collection which, although until quite recently acquisition was at the lower end of the collection activity scale, has received new impetus with the appointment of a new countryspecialist.

Country specialist

Adina Bradeanu (Romanian Subject Specialist)Email:  adina.bradeanu@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Sorbian

TABS has traditionally been strong in its holdings of Sorbian material. Professor Morfill had a special interest in Sorbian language and literature and this is reflected in the rich collection of Sorbian material contained within his named collection in the Special Collections room. Our Sorbian collections continue to be developed to this day.

Subject Specialist

Barbara Bajwojtowicz barbara.bajwojtowicz@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Southern Slavonic

The Library maintains a representative collection for the language and literature of Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia and, as mentioned previously of Bulgarian and Macedonian.

Subject Specialist

Barbara Bajwojtowicz barbara.bajwojtowicz@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Ukrainian

The library has a representative collection of Ukrainian material.

Subject Specialist

Nick Hearn nick.hearn@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Bibliography

Ukrainian books and journals in the library of W.R. Morfill (1834-1909) F.ARCH.Z.MORF.1 (28)

5. Locating books

The OLIS (Oxford Libraries Information System) on-line catalogue is a union catalogue, which contains entries for all books and many electronic resources in OULS, as well as the holdings of almost all other Oxford libraries, including college libraries. Workstations for consulting OLIS are available in all reading rooms.  Guides on using OLIS are available by workstations and can be printed off from the OULS website.  On OLIS, works in the Cyrillic alphabet (except for some pre-1920 records) are transliterated in their entirety according to the Library of Congress transliteration system .  Specialist staff are available at TABS for additional help with searching the on-line catalogue. Most material at TABS is open-access for graduates. Undergraduates in all subjects except Czech and Slovak do not have direct access to the shelves but may request and borrow books from the semi-closed stacks in the Basement. An increasing proportion of material is held off-site at Nuneham Courtney and may be ordered by ASR. It is also possible, as has already been mentioned, to order post-1850 material from the Bodleian to TABS using ASR. The reference section in the Reading Room on the 1st Floor contains a number of bibliographies which are of value for research in the subject area. Bibliographies of critical works can be found in the reference section (but on-line resources such as MLA are now indispensable). Neil Cornwell’s Reference guide to Russian literature is a useful starting-point. Garth M. Terry’s A subject and name index to articles on the Slavonic and East European languages and literatures, music and theatre, libraries and the press, contained in English-language journals 1920-1975 is still useful if used in conjunction with electronic resources. The reference section also offers current bibliographies of special periods or thematic fields. TABS uses the Library of Congress (LC) classification scheme. There are two versions of the scheme at TABS – an older version and a newer version which is being adopted by most other Oxford libraries. It is important to be aware that material acquired after 2007 will be classified according to this newer version and in a separate sequence in both the Basement and 2nd Floor Research Collections. The Faculty (or Undergraduate) Library collection uses an inhouse scheme but like the main Research Collection has a new LC sequence and so newer material will be in the new sequence. Language and literature periodicals in the Reading Room are not filed alphabetically but according to LC. A separate guide to LC at TABS is available.

6. Locating periodicals

Full records for numerous Slavonic and East European periodicals and other serials are now available on OLIS but the roneo periodicals register opposite the Issue Desk may be useful for earlier issues. Readers with an enquiry about periodicals should contact Mrs Carole Menzies (carole.menzies@bodleian.ox.ac.uk).

7. Locating electronic resources

Electronic databases relating to Slavonic and East European language and literature can be accessed via OxLIP+ (Oxford Libraries Information Platform). Go to the TABS website and then click on SOLO in the menu under 'Electronic Resources' . Then go to the top of the screen and click on OxLIP+. Click on subject and scroll down through the menu until you come to Modern Languages. Then click on the ‘Go’ button on the right-hand side and select ‘Slavonic and East European’ in the central menu. A list of electronic resources for Slavonic and East European language and literature is available here. A more extensive list including resources freely available on the web but not on OxLIP+ is available via the Slavonic language and literature subject page .

8. Dissertations, theses and research in progress

The following publication contains a complete listing:

University theses in Russian, Soviet and East European studies, 1907-2006: a centennial bibliography of research in the British Isles by G.P.M. Walker London: Modern Humanities Research Association, 008

Two electronic resources on OLIS will also be found to be helpful: Proquest’s:

  • Dissertations and theses and
  • Index to theses.

To keep up-to-date with recent conferences go to ZETOC (The British Library’s Electronic Table of Contents) on OxLIP+. The SEELANGS mail-list, although e-mail traffic is heavy and of variable value and interest, is useful for forthcoming conferences.

8. Microforms

The Library has a large collection of microforms, including nearly 1,000 reels of microfilm and many thousands of microfiche cards of which the majority are Russian out-of-print books and journals. There is a microfilm and microfiche reader which library staff will be happy to assist readers with. A complete list of microfilms held in Taylor Bodleian Slavonic can be obtained by doing a shelf-mark search on OLIS (c=SLAV.FILMS). The Bodleian library’s publication A guide to microform holdings in the Bodleian Library lists major works, journals and series held in microform in the Bodleian. A list of Slavonic and East European holdings held in other UK libraries can be downloaded from the COSEELIS (Council for Slavonic and East European Library and Information Services) website.

9. Recent acquisitions

A selection is displayed opposite the Issue Desk in TABS. On-line access to accessions lists is available.  Recommendations for the OULS collections can be made using the suggestions book which is kept on the roneo periodicals register opposite the Issue Desk at TABS or online.  Requests for specialist help can be made through the Ask-A-Librarian service .

10. Inter-library loans and document supply

If books required are not held in any Oxford library, application can be made to borrow (or to order photocopies) from other libraries, including, if necessary, collections in Russia or Eastern Europe. A charge is made for this service. Enquiries should be made at the Enquiry Desk in the Main Taylorian or by contacting the librarian responsible for interlibrary loans helen.buchanan@taylib.ox.ac.uk).

11. Photocopying and photography

Photocopying and scanning may be done using the PCAS service for which you will need to set up an account.  There is a photocopier/scanner at TABS on the Ground Floor. Articles and books can be photocopied subject to the provisions of the Copyright Act. Special permission must be requested for books or pamphlets which are fragile. When material is fragile we would ask readers to take copies using a digital camera. A digital camera is available for use by readers at TABS (50p for 30 minutes).  Material can be scanned to professional standards by the Bodleian’s imaging services.

12. Resources of other libraries

Online descriptions of Slavonic collections in UK libraries can be found on the COCOREES website.

The following publication may also be consulted:

Walker, G.P.M Library resources in Britain for the study of Eastern Europe and the former USSR Wheatley: G. Walker, 1992 TAS Z791.A1.1992.L6=R

Published catalogues and guides to collections in libraries and archives elsewhere including those in the former USSR and Eastern Europe are also shelved near the shelf-mark given above and further  nformation on library resources can be obtained from the staff at TABS.

13. Assistance and instruction in use

Induction sessions sessions are given on locating and using electronic resources to undergraduates and graduates at the beginning of the academic year. Occasional sessions are given on electronic resources as part of the WISER (Workshops in Information Skills and Electronic Resources). An introduction to Oxford’s Slavonic and East European collections and an individual hands-on session on the use of electronic resources will be given to any reader on request by a specialist member of staff who will be glad to discuss any particular interests or requirements. For more information contact Nick Hearn (nick.hearn@bodleian.ox.ac.uk) or any of the other subject specialists listed at the beginning of this document.

Notes

A range of guides may be found on the Bodleian Libraries libguides page.

 

Updated: 19.4.2011