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Heroic Works display showcases the best contemporary designer book binding from around the world

Wednesday, 19 July 2017
Personal archive of labour politician Denis Healey allocated to Bodleian Libraries

Tuesday, 11 July 2017
Author Ali Smith opens Bodleian Libraries' Jane Austen exhibition

Monday, 26 June 2017
War, empire and business: an exhibition on Jane Austen's unexplored life

Saturday, 3 June 2017
Last chance to view the Bodleian's explosive Volcanoes exhibition

Monday, 15 May 2017
Bodleian display showcases scientific research into Bauer's botanical masterpieces

Thursday, 27 April 2017
Novelist William Boyd awarded Bodleian's highest honour at Oxford Literary Festival

Monday, 3 April 2017
Bodleian First Folio on display in Singapore

Thursday, 23 March 2017
Bodleian buys historic ledgers of Oxford shoemakers Ducker & Son, revealing purchases of literary guests

Monday, 20 March 2017
Major exhibition in 2018 to explore JRR Tolkien's vast creative genius

Friday, 17 March 2017
Hilary 2017 update from Richard Ovenden, Bodley's Librarian

Monday, 20 February 2017
Bodleian display celebrates Oxfordshire antiquarian and folklorist Percy Manning

Tuesday, 14 February 2017
Bodleian launches seminal online catalogue of the complete works of British 'father of photography', William Henry Fox Talbot

Friday, 10 February 2017
New exhibition charts science and wonder of volcanoes over the centuries

Monday, 16 January 2017
Novelist William Boyd to be awarded Bodley Medal

Tuesday, 20 December 2016
Lost Christmas 'drinking' song by George Butterworth discovered at Bodleian Libraries

Monday, 12 December 2016
Michaelmas 2016 update from Richard Ovenden, Bodley's Librarian

Monday, 21 November 2016
Bodleian event celebrates sonnets in Shakespeare's anniversary year

Friday, 11 November 2016
Editor and Scholar Christopher Tolkien awarded Bodley Medal

Thursday, 3 November 2016
Bodleian display celebrates Oxford geographer Richard Hakluyt and his 'world in a book'

Saturday, 22 October 2016
Display reveals story of the first female librarian at the Bodleian Library

Tuesday, 18 October 2016
Bodleian display charts milestones in management of tuberculosis

Thursday, 6 October 2016
Vote for the Weston Library in the RIBA Stirling Prize public poll

Friday, 30 September 2016
Weston Library wins Architect's Journal 2016 Retrofit Award

Friday, 16 September 2016
Last chance to see Shakespeare's Dead exhibition in the Weston Library

Monday, 12 September 2016

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Closure notice: Oriental Institute and Oriental Institute Library basement

Friday, 21 July 2017
Building work: Bodleian Library 17-24 July

Thursday, 13 July 2017
Power outage: some digital services unavailable 14-17 July

Thursday, 13 July 2017
Closure notice: Radcliffe Science Library

Wednesday, 5 July 2017
SOLO email functionality temporarily disabled

Tuesday, 6 June 2017
SOLO downtime - 16 May

Monday, 15 May 2017
Access to e-resources for readers and card holders

Thursday, 13 April 2017
Bodleian Libraries: Easter opening 2017

Monday, 10 April 2017
SOLO downtime - 4 April

Monday, 3 April 2017
Take the Bodleian Libraries reader survey!

Tuesday, 28 March 2017
New SOLO service information and updates web page

Tuesday, 28 March 2017
Restricted access to the Gladstone Link

Tuesday, 28 March 2017
Change to default sort order within clustered search results in SOLO

Tuesday, 28 March 2017
Alexander Library of Ornithology temporary move to the Radcliffe Science Library

Wednesday, 8 March 2017
SOLO downtime - 21 February

Monday, 20 February 2017
Closure notice: Alexander Library of Ornithology

Monday, 13 February 2017
SOLO downtime - 17 January

Wednesday, 11 January 2017
Bodleian Libraries: Christmas opening 2016

Thursday, 15 December 2016
SOLO downtime - 13 December

Monday, 12 December 2016
Temporary closure of Duke Humfrey's Library - 12 December

Thursday, 8 December 2016
e-journal maintenance: 8 December

Wednesday, 7 December 2016
SOLO authentication maintenance: 6 December

Thursday, 1 December 2016
e-journal maintenance: 4 and 7 December

Tuesday, 29 November 2016
UPDATE: Gladstone Link now fully open

Wednesday, 16 November 2016
Gladstone Link closures - 15 November

Tuesday, 15 November 2016

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