The Bodleian Law Library is participating in this year’s Oxford “Open Doors” weekend on Friday and Saturday, 8-9 September 2017. (Open Doors is organized by Oxford Preservation Trust, and events continue on Sunday, though the Law Library will not be open on that day.) The purpose of the weekend is to enable a wider public… Read More »
Reclassification Update This summer library staff are completing Phase Three of the Moys Reclassification Project. Staff will be reorganising books currently held in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States. This is part of the long-term Moys re-classification project that has been underway since 2006. All the books will be fully accessible to our… Read More »
Many of you will have received an email direct from Thomson Reuters outlining the improvements that went live on the database ‘Practical Law (PLC)’ over the weekend. The aim of this blog post is to draw your attention to what we think the main improvements will be for you, the user. (If you are unfamiliar… Read More »
This 1970 Christmas no.1 is particularly apt for the past year for the Law Library. ‘I hear you knocking’ indeed: what with all the drilling, hammering, mess and disruption, it’s amazing that anyone got anything done. We (readers and staff) cannot wait to get back to our understanding of “quiet enjoyment” of a library. Our… Read More »
Who can forget the 1967 classic ‘Hello, Goodbye’ by the Beatles? Perhaps not the most diverse set of lyrics of any Christmas number 1, indeed here is a short sample; “You say goodbye and I say hello Hello hello I don’t know why you say goodbye, I say hello Hello hello I don’t know… Read More »
On first listening to the strains of There is no one quite like Grandma, this writer’s inner Scrooge leapt out unbidden: initial reaction was “A sugar tax cannot come soon enough!” (It remains to be seen whether the 2016 Budget‘s proposal of a new Soft Drinks Industry Levy (SIDL consultation) from April 2018 will survive… Read More »
Welcome to Oxford for Michaelmas Term for all those returning or those who are just joining us. We were hoping that we would be able to unveil our new refurbished library complete with new entrance and enquiry desk. However, despite valiant efforts from everyone, the work is still being finished off. We apologise for any… Read More »
Those of you that have visited our Library during the last six months will have noticed that many of our collections have been on the move as part of our major refurbishment programme. The European Documentation Centre (EDC) is no exception, as it will move from Level 1 to Level 0, reuniting the current EDC… Read More »
My Christmas film is Russian Ark. In one lingering ‘take’, the film leads us through the Hermitage in a series of dreamlike sequences, like the thread that guided Theseus through the labyrinth, until we arrive not at the Minotaur, but at a magnificent Romanov Ball. The film brilliantly negotiates 300 years of history as the… Read More »
Have yourself a merry little Christmas, let your heart be light, from now on your troubles will be out of sight This wonderful Christmas classic was debuted by Judy Garland in Meet Me in St Louis. Fans of the song may be interested to know that the lyrics were changed a few times over the… Read More »
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