Bodleian Old Library

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Opening hours

Upper and Lower Reading Rooms

Monday – Friday: 9am – 9pm
Saturday: 10am – 4pm
Sunday: 11am – 5pm

Duke Humfrey's Library

Monday – Friday: 9am – 5pm

Early closure: 24 October

On Friday 24 October Duke Humfrey’s Library will be closing early at 3pm due to a library event.

Christmas opening hours

Tuesday 23 December: 9am – 5pm

The Old Library will be closed from Wednesday 24 December — Thursday 1 January (inclusive). The library will open as usual (9am—9pm) on Friday 2 January. 

Public tours

Find out about tours of the Bodleian Library.

 

About the library

The Bodleian Old Library is one of the oldest libraries in Europe. Part of the larger Bodleian Library complex, it is connected to the Radcliffe Camera by the underground Gladstone Link. It has three historic reading rooms: the Lower Reading Room, the Upper Reading Room and Duke Humfrey’s Library.

Find us

Bodleian Old Library
Catte Street  
Oxford
OX1 3BG

For reader enquiries:

reader.services@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
+44 (0)1865 277162

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