Bodleian Library

The Bodleian Library ( Bodleian Library ) is the main library of the University of Oxford. It is one of six legal deposit libraries in the UK, where every printed work in the country must be filed in accordance with the rules of the legal deposit.

The library currently has around 9 million units to 176 kilometers of shelving, of which more than 6.5 million volumes. This makes it the second largest library in the country. 2,500 readers find in it at the same time a reading place.

After renaming the Oxford University Library Services on March 2, 2010 in Bodleian Libraries, the Oxford university library system includes over 100 branch libraries, of which the Bodleian Library is responsible for about 40 libraries.

History

The Bodleian Library ( officially, known internally as Bodley 's Library latin " Bibliotheca Bodleian " or shorter " Bodleian " only "the Bod " ) was opened in 1602 with a collection of 2000 books. Thomas Bodley from Merton College, the books had collected to replace the library that had been donated to the Divinity School of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, brother of King Henry VII. This had been scattered in the 16th century.

Your catalog from 1605 is the oldest printed library catalog in England.

1610 Bodley agreed with the Stationers ' Company in London that by any registered book a copy should be delivered to the library. The collection grew so fast that the first expansion of the library building 1610-1612 was necessary, a further 1634 to 1637. When John Selden died, he left his large collection of books and manuscripts of the Bodleian.

From this early period also dates back to the current regulation, must swear by the students to put no fire in the library. Only then they can use the Bod.

1911, the agreement was continued with Stationers by the Copyright Act. The Bodleian is one of the libraries in the UK, who have a right to a copy of each book under copyright (copyright ) (see: legal deposit ). Unlike the British Library, the Bodleian needs as well as the Cambridge University Library, the National Library of Scotland ( National Library of Scotland ), the library of Trinity College, Dublin, and the National Library of Wales ( Welsh National Library ) Request the works of the publishers.

Two floors of books were opened in 1913 next to the Radcliffe Camera and Radcliffe Square. A new large building including reading room, the New Bodleian Building, was built in the 1930s. A tunnel under Broad Street connects the old and the new library, which contains in addition to the pedestrian walkway, a mechanical conveyor system and a pneumatic " Lamson Tube" for books.

The library today

Today, the Bodleian Library owns several magazines outside the main building and nine other libraries in the city:

• The Bodleian Japanese Library
• The Bodleian Law Library
• The Hooke Library
• The Indian Institute Library
• The Oriental Institute Library
• The Philosophy Library
• The Radcliffe Science Library
• The Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House
• The Vere Harmsworth Library

Digital Future

The Bodleian Library is involved in the project of the Oxford Digital Library (ODL ). The ODL was established to build the technical infrastructure for on-line access to the collections of libraries. The Bodleian Library provides assistance in setting up the "Journal Server" Open Access Digital Library and provides resources to the " Oxford Digital Library Server". The Oxford Digital Library was launched in July 2001 and has a large collection of digital archives.

Trivia

The Bodleian Library in the film

The architecture of the library made ​​it a favorite filming location for filmmakers. She appears in The Madness of King George (1994) and the first two Harry Potter films, in which the Divinity School, the role of Hogwarts Hospital and the Duke Humphrey 's Library plays the role of the Hogwarts library.

References and footnotes

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