was Bodley’s Librarian at the University of Oxford between 1986 and 1996, a febrile period when the Bodleian Library was on the cusp of modernisation but struggling to stave off a funding crisis ...

More than 10 million books, maps and artefacts belonging to Oxford University's world-famous Bodleian Library are stored in a warehouse near Swindon. The unassuming building in South Marston ...

A “distinguished and loyal” librarian based at Oxford University has died aged 89. David Vaisey CBE was Bodleian Librarian ... College on matters such as library policy and on the cataloguing ...

Library of Congress: The largest library in the world, located in Washington, D.C. The Library of Congress provides Congress with objective research to inform the legislative process, administers the ...

UK scientists used AI to "virtually unroll" ancient scrolls charred by Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago. UK scientists ...

The French scholar and philologist Isaac Casaubon, who visited Oxford in 1613, was similarly impressed: ‘Nothing attracted me so much as the Bodleian Library, a work rather ... and quaint villages ...

But standing in the Bodleian Library in Oxford, I can observe the moment when Franz Kafka realised the shape his final novel, The Castle — published posthumously as Das Schloss in 1926 — would ...

Researchers have successfully generated a digital image of an ancient scroll from Herculaneum that has not been seen in ...

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Finding it: Beaumont Street, Oxford OX1 2PH UK Tel: +44 1865 278000 2 ... A historic plaque faces the street. Bodleian Library Oxford University's main library houses the important collections ...