Bodleian Old Library
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Opening hours
Upper and Lower Reading Rooms
Monday–Friday: 9.30am–7pm
Saturday: 10am–4pm
Duke Humfrey's Library (year-round)
Monday–Friday: 9.30am–7pm
Public tours
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Current collection access
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
reader.services@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
+44 (0)1865 277162
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