Using the Continuing Education Library

Admission

The Continuing Education Library and its services are available to:

All University card holders (learn more about borrowing rights at this library)
All Bodleian Libraries' card holders
Anyone enrolled on an Oxford Lifelong Learning or Oxford Language Centre course or lecture series (e.g. short courses, weekly classes, summer schools and lecture series). On your first visit please introduce yourself at the library enquiry desk, and we will issue you with a library card for the duration of your course. You can use this card to borrow books and access computer facilities in the library and the Student Resources Room at Ewert House. Learn more on our pages for short course students and summer school students.
Former Department of Continuing Education/Oxford Lifelong Learning students may also become paying members. Membership costs £30 for one year, £20 for six months or £10 for 3 months. Please ask at the library enquiry desk or email library@conted.ox.ac.uk.

In general, people under 18 may not use the library.

If you are unsure if you are eligible to use the library or have a query about membership, please email library@conted.ox.ac.uk.

The Bodleian Libraries Regulations and Rules of Conduct apply in this library. We would particularly like to draw your attention to the following:

Eating, drinking (except for bottled water or drinks in KeepCups) or smoking are not allowed in the library.
Do not hold long conversations or use mobile phones in, or near, the library and Reading Room, as this will disturb other users.
Do not leave bags, laptops, mobile phones and other valuable items unattended in the library or Reading Room. The library is not responsible for items left unattended.
When seating in the Reading Room is limited, priority will usually be given to students of the Department for Continuing Education.
If you wish to leave books in the Reading Room (for up to 3 days) please fill in a ‘Please Leave’ slip for each item. If books are not already issued to you, library staff reserve the right to remove such items if required by other readers.

Although we try to keep noise to a minimum, due to the nature of the library it is difficult to provide a silent study environment.
You are welcome to use laptops and mobile devices in the library.
The main study area is the Reading Room, next to the main library desk area. It has 16 seats around 2 large tables and has power points and Wi-Fi. The Reading Room is open 7 days a week, from around 8am – 10pm. The lower floor of the library has additional bench seating equipped with power points and Wi-Fi.
There is a ‘Quick Search’ terminal on each floor. These are not full PCs but can be used to search SOLO, the Oxford libraries catalogue.