Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries have only had three chair designs in the past 400 years. Here’s the latest. “After spending a day at the library it became apparent there are some pretty unusual ...

One titillating, new library collection has the whole world watching. The University of Oxford's Bodleian Library exhibit, Story of Phi: Restricted Books, displays a collection of "obscene" literature ...

A British philanthropist has given $2.2-million to the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries to expand efforts to digitize their vast collection of books and manuscripts. The gift, by the ...

This year marks five centuries since the death of Aldus Manutius, an Italian humanist who forever changed the direction of publishing, and got in one of its first copyright squabbles. Aldus was a ...

A Picture of Dorian Gray and Lady Chatterley’s Lover were deemed so scandalous in the Victorian era that a separate restricted library was created within the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries ...

Some of the rarest and most fragile religious texts in the Vatican and Bodleian libraries, including ancient bibles and some of the oldest Hebrew manuscript and printed books, are being placed online ...

Books once deemed "obscene" and kept in a restricted library at the University of Oxford are going on display. Bodleian Libraries' exhibition includes Lady Chatterley's Lover, The Joy of Sex, and 17th ...

Where can you find locks of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s and Mary Shelley’s hair alongside the fragments of Sappho’s poetry? At the Bodleain Libraries in Oxford, England. And also in the book “Marks of ...

At Oxford University, there are over 100 libraries and collections, including ancient ones and new ones. Among the 100 libraries, Bodleian library is the main research library of the University. Using ...

ANOTHER chapter has been completed in the Bodleian Library’s multi-million-pound plans to upgrade its Oxford facilities. In 2008, the world-famous library was blocked by the city council in its bid to ...