Bodleian Old Library
Due to high temperatures, the Upper Reading Room, Lower Reading Room and Duke Humfrey's Library will be closed today (25 June), Friday and Saturday. Book deliveries to the library from offsite storage are temporarily unavailable until midday on 26 June. Staff based in the Proscholium will offer a 'fetch on demand' service. We recommend using cooler spaces in the Radcliffe Camera and the Gladstone Link. The Readers' Common Room, toilets, lockers and tunnel to Radcliffe Camera and Gladstone Link will stay open.
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
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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