As a result of the closure of part of the A420 road near Swindon for 7 weeks from Wednesday 23 July for major improvement work there may be delays in the delivery of Bodleian stack requests from the Book Storage Facility.

Oxfordshire County Council has stated that the road closure is likely to cause severe delays with significant congestion on all alternative routes.

Books which currently take half a day to arrive may take up to a day although staff are working hard to minimise disruption as much as possible.