Vacation time at the Bodleian History Faculty Library

Vacation opening hours
Now that Oxford’s full term has finished, the Bodleian Library and Radcliffe Camera (including the Bodleian History Faculty Library) will be open during it’s vacation opening hours:

  • Monday – Friday 9.00-19.00
  • Saturday 10.00-16.00
  • Sunday closed

Remember the Gladstone Link closes 45 minutes before the Radcliffe Camera (ie. 18.15 on weekdays and 15.15 on Saturdays).

Christmas and New Year closure
The Library will be closed at 5pm on Friday 22 December 2012 and reopen on Wednesday 2 January 2013 at 9am.

Vacation loans
Books borrowed as vacation loans, including short loan books, are due back on Monday 14 January (Hilary Term week 1).

love and devotionBodleian Exhibitions and Displays
There are two exhibitions currently showing in the Bodleian – Love and Devotion: From Persia and Beyond in the Exhibition Room in the Old Bodleian Quad and Illustrations of Early Printed Ballads in the Old Bodleian Proscholium entrance

Love and Devotion: From Persia and Beyond runs until 28 April 2013 and features  over 60 Persian, Mughal Indian and Ottoman Turkish manuscripts.  The exhibition demonstrates the both the history of the books themselves and the Persian culture of literature and art.  There will be a series of lunchtime lectures to accompany the exhibition.  The exhibition is also available online in a series of image galleries.

Illustrations of Early Printed Ballads runs until 21 December 2012 and is a display of illustrated ballads from the 17th and 18th centuries, featuring heroic and notorious characters, lovers and fighters, divine justice and a valiant apprentice.  There will be a lunchtime lecture accompanying this display on 4 December.

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