Bodleian Old Library

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

Christmas opening hours

Monday 23 December: 9am – 5pm

The Bodleian Old Library will be closed from Tuesday 24 December – Wednesday 1 January (inclusive).

The last delivery from offsite storage will arrive on the afternoon of Friday 20 December. The deadline for placing requests for this delivery on SOLO is 5pm on Thursday 19 December.

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

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

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