The Bodleian Libraries' Admissions Office
Clarendon Building, Bodleian Library
Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BG
tel: +44 (0) 1865 277180
fax: +44 (0) 1865 277105
email: admissions@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
web: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/using/getting-a-readers-card
The Clarendon Building is on the corner of Broad Street and Catte Street.
Opening hours
9.00am - 4.30 pm Mondays to Fridays
10.15 am - 1.30 pm Saturday mornings
The Admissions Offices is open on all days when the Central Bodleian buildings are open. The Central Bodleian buildings are closed on Sundays, Good Friday, Easter Eve, and Easter Monday, the August Bank Holiday Monday and the preceding Saturday, the last weekday before Christmas Day, and from 25 December to 1 January inclusive.On Encaenia day (the first Wednesday in the Long Vacation, in the 3rd or 4th week of June), the New Library is open but the other Central Bodleian buildings open at 2:00 pm
For further details of all of the Bodleian Libraries' opening hours and closures, see www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/subject-and-libraries/opening-hours.
Specific requirements: getting to the Admissions Office
If you have difficulty with walking or climbing steps, with sight or with hearing, please tell the Admissions Office (01865 277180) in advance. The Office itself is via two flights of steps (9 steps from Broad Street or 4 steps from Catte Street; these can be avoided only by a detour of about 150 metres via the Old Bodleian Library) and 4 more steps from the passageway through the building.
We advise wheelchair users and ambulant disabled to ring in advance to make alternative arrangements. The office has an induction loop system for the benefit of hearing-aid users.
