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Contact | Collection overview | Libraries & reading rooms | E-resources

Contact

Joanne Edwards
tel: +44 (0)1865 288033
email: joanne.edwards@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Collection overview

Collection policy for Spanish

Libraries and reading rooms

Principal collections

Library resources for the study of Spanish language and of the literatures of Spain and Latin America are primarily located in the Taylor Institution on St. Giles’. The Taylor Institution Library is the major source of research material in Oxford for the study of these subjects. The building houses two collections:

• The research collection includes material on the language and literature of Spain and Latin America, with particular strengths in medieval, Golden Age and contemporary Peninsular literature as well as in contemporary Latin American literature in Spanish. There are also small collections of Catalan, Galician and Basque literature.
  

• The teaching collections support undergraduate and taught postgraduate courses in Spanish language and the literatures of Spain and Latin America. Material is selected in line with reading lists, syllabuses and recommended authors, and multiple copies of key texts are made available. The Library subscribes to some Spanish-language newspapers and magazines, which are kept for six months, and there is a growing collection of films from Spain and Latin America (see Film Studies).

Associated collections

• The Bodleian Library also houses material relating to Spanish Language and the literatures of Spain and Latin America. In particular, legal deposit copies of books published in the UK are available for reference use.
• Some college libraries have substantial collections of Spanish language and the literatures of Spain and Latin America.
• Readers studying Spanish or Latin American literature will also find relevant background material in the English Faculty Library, the Philosophy Faculty Library and the History Faculty Library, the Latin American Centre Library and the Sackler Fine Arts Library.

E-resources

Access to electronic library resources is through OxLIP+. To access these resources remotely you may need your Single Sign-On (SSO) username and password.

For a useful introduction to print and electronic resources in Spanish and Latin American languages and literatures, visit our LibGuide.