Univ Library

The Library of University College Oxford.

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Beautiful keepsakes, hand printed by the College Librarian, are now available in both libraries.

Please take one! Last year we had Matthew Arnold's 'dreaming spires' quote. What's your favourite quote about Oxford?

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We now have some lovely cat origami paper outside the New Library! 🐱🐱🐈

Why not take a break and create

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We still have our Victorian bookplate (from around 1860), in it's original, velvet lined case. You may recognize the bookplate from some items in our collections!

Our current bookplate was designed in 2011

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We have small carnation vases in both library offices...feel free to borrow them!

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Good luck to everyone for Trinity Term. You've got this!

Let the Library Team know if there is anything we can do to support your studies

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The College Librarian has once again created some amazing coaster keepsakes for Trinity Term. Please feel free to pick them up from either library.

These were hand-printed using the traditional letterpress method

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Help us to complete the moth jigsaw! The image is from a 1903 German translation of Oscar Wilde's Salome.

Find it upstairs in the Old Library!

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We have some origami paper on the table outside the New Library Office. Why not take a break and create?

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Thank you to everyone who joined us yesterday for our 'illustrations' Rarities Revealed. We loved sharing the beautiful moth endpaper from a 1903 German translation of Wilde's Salome. We also displayed the first illustrated edition of Milton's Paradise Lost, from 1688.

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The sun is out, so quiet book club is outside today from 11-12! Please feel free to use the picnic blanket and any of the books 🌞📖

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Our next 'Rarities Revealed' exhibition will take place next Wednesday. We are excited to showcase illustrations from our Special Collections, including the first illustrated edition of Milton's Paradise Lost (1688)

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Whilst undertaking some research into the Robert Ross Memorial Collection here at Univ, our Librarian found this gem from the Daily Mail (1905).

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We now have a comfy chair in the Single Study Room. You can book all the library study rooms by emailing us or popping into our offices. Please give us a couple of hours notice!
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Starting next Thursday (30th) we will be inviting Univ members to join us for a weekly Quiet Book Club 📖
We hope you can come! It will be running throughout the term. Hopefully we can be outside, taking in the view of the Old Library from the Fellows Garden

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Notice anything different about the Old Library from this photo? The downstairs reading room wasn't created until the 1930s; before then the library had one large reading room. The bookcases are the same ones in use today, with their beautiful botanical carvings. #univlibrary

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The Univ Librarian has printed a copy of these intriguing 'Library Rules' from the 1930s.

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We're delighted to announce the winner and runners up of our poetry competition. Isabel Bentley won with her innovatively formatted Ill-iterate. Our two runners up were Li An Tan’ Hermocopis and Cara Nicholls’ The Woods on My Skin. #universitycollegeoxford #univlibrary #libraries

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Both libraries and the group study rooms will remain open 24 hours over the bank holiday weekend 🌻

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Nearly there! 🧩

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The Wilde window is looking wonderful with the blue sky and Spring light coming through! 🌻🌞

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