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	National library - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A national library is a library specifically established by the government of a nation to serve as the preeminent repository of information for that country.
		One of the main goals of a national library is fulfilling their nation's part of the common international goal of universal bibliographic control, by ensuring the bibliographic control of all the books or book-like documents published in that particular country or talking about that particular country, in any way.
		Some states which are not independent, but who wish to preserve their particular culture, have established a national library, with all the attributes of such institutions, such as legal deposit.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_library (877 words)

	The Bodleian Library
		Bodleian Library material, including material in the dependent libraries (Rhodes House Library, the Radcliffe Science Library, the Law Library, and the Indian Institute Library), that has been catalogued since September 1988 is included in the OLIS catalogue; earlier material is gradually being added.
		Notices displayed in the Bodleian and other Oxford libraries give details of the dates and times of these sessions, and those wishing to attend should sign up in advance on lists held by the porter on the south side of the entrance hall to the Old Library.
		This is the principal library of the University of Oxford.
	www.history.ox.ac.uk /libraryit/bodleian.htm (1352 words)

	Bodleian Library - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Bodleian Library, the main research library of the University of Oxford, is one of the oldest libraries in Europe, and in England is second in size only to the British Library.
		the Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House
		In 1911 the Copyright Act continued the Stationers' agreement by making the Bodleian one of the six (at that time) libraries in the United Kingdom where a copy of each book copyrighted must be deposited.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bodleian_Library (558 words)

	Williams College Oxford Programme - Libraries
		The Bodleian Library is a library of legal deposit or `copyright library', which means that the Library may claim a copy of every book and periodical published in the UK and Ireland.
		The Bodleian Library includes the Old Library, the New Library, the Radcliffe Camera, and seven dependent libraries: the Bodleian Japanese Library, the Bodleian Law Library, the Indian Institute Library, the Oriental Institute Library, the Philosophy Library, the Radcliffe Science Library and the Rhodes House Library.
		The Bodleian Library, opened in 1602, is the principal library of the University, named after its founder, Sir Thomas Bodley.
	wso.williams.edu /orgs/oxford/libraries.html (449 words)

	Innovations: A New Copper Roof for the Bodleian Library in Oxford
		The Bodleian Library is the largest of the libraries at the University of Oxford and, in England, is second in size only to the British Library.
		Since 1602, the Library has been continually expanded to accommodate its increasing collection of books until in 1939 an additional library, The New Bodleian Library, was built nearby.
		The Library was infested with deathwatch beetle (Xestobium rufovillosum), whose larvae feed on wood.
	www.copper.org /innovations/2000/09/bodleain_story.html (1385 words)

	Bodleian Library on Encyclopedia.com
		BODLEIAN LIBRARY [Bodleian Library], at Oxford Univ. The original library, destroyed in the reign of Edward VI, was replaced in 1602, chiefly through the efforts of Sir Thomas Bodley, who gave it valuable collections of books and manuscripts and in his will left a fund for maintenance.
		The compilation of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Digby 86.
		A Digital Facsimile of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/B/Bodleian.asp (362 words)

	SILS News and Events Page
		The Bodleian Library is one of the greatest libraries for advanced study and research in the world.
		The series of presentations is supplemented by visits to the Bodleian Library, some Oxford College libraries, the City of Oxford Central Library and to the headquarters of Oxford University Press and Blackwell's, the booksellers.
		"Libraries and Librarianship: Past, Present and Future," is a two-week seminar that will trace the Bodleian Library's past and chart the future of information and technology.
	ils.unc.edu /news/article.php?id=18 (555 words)

	Bodleian Library
		One of the largest libraries in Britain, the Bodleian Library has been a legal depository for copies of all books published in Britain and Ireland since 1610.
		As a result, the mission of the library extends beyond supporting the courses taught at Oxford and the librarians seek to find a balance between operating as a modern library and fulfilling its mission as a heritage museum.
		Thus, the Bodleian is one of the largest research libraries in Britain.
	www.du.edu /~pkeeran/london/bodleian.htm (850 words)

	LIBRARIES
		The Bodleian Library in the University of Oxford is named after its founder Sir Thomas Bodley, but its roots go back to much earlier endeavours relating to the creation of college libraries.
		Bodleian Library, after an engraving by David Loggan
		The regeneration of the library was not long in coming, however, and it was given the name of a man of profound humanist education, Thomas Bodley, who thought it inconceivable that an educational centre of the stature of Oxford should operate without a library.
	www.libraries.gr /nonmembers/en/libraries_bodlhiani.htm (620 words)

	The Bodleian Library
		The Bodleian Library is the largest university library in Britain, holding in excess of six million books, and housing one of the World’s principal cartographic collections, amounting to around 1,200,000 maps and 20,000 atlases.
		The Bodleian Library is closed on Sundays, Good Friday, Easter Eve and Easter Monday, the weekday next before Christmas Day, 25 December — 1 January inclusive, and the day of Encaenia (the first Wednesday of the long vacation).
		A purpose-built Map Room was opened in the New Bodleian Library in 1946, prior to which the Library had no special provision for the consultation of maps.
	www.mapforum.com /02/bodleian.htm (819 words)

	Bodleian - Encyclopedia: Bodleian Library
		The Bodleian Library is the main research library of the University of Oxford and a copyright deposit library.
		Bodleian Library library of the University of Oxford and one of the oldest and most important nonlending reference libraries in Great Britain.
		The Bodleian is not a landing library: all materials are for reference use only.
	cutesky.com /c/bodleian.html (219 words)

	News: Google checks out library books:
		Reg Carr, Director of Oxford University Library Services, said “Making the wealth of knowledge accumulated in the Bodleian Library’s historic collections accessible to as many people as possible is at the heart of Oxford University’s commitment to lifelong learning.
		The Bodleian Library, Oxford University’s principal research library, was first opened to readers in 1602.
		The Bodleian Library’s 19th century holdings include works by Charles Darwin, Edgar Allan Poe and Christina Rossetti.
	www.admin.ox.ac.uk /po/041214a.shtml (671 words)

	Australian Academic & Research Libraries: The Bodleian Library in Oxford marks the 400th anniversary of its foundation: a note.@ HighBeam Research
		The Bodleian Library in Oxford marks the 400th anniversary of its foundation: a note.
		British library history has no lack of significant dates to celebrate, but even so, there are not too many libraries which can mark an anniversary going back 400 years.
		The University of Oxford has had libraries 'of some kind for at least 650 years', but in 1598 Sir Thomas Bodley undertook to restore the library room which had not been operative since 1556.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:111012003&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (253 words)

	The Bodleian Library - A Pathfinder
		The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford continues to be one of the most important libraries, ranking sixth in the world.
		The Bodleian Library is not a lending library; the materials must be used on the premises.
		The following sources provide information about the Bodleian Library as a geographic location.
	ils.unc.edu /~hydek/pathfinder.html (1063 words)

	Staff condemnation, 16/3/2001
		The library is accused of trying to turn "a centre of scholastic excellence into a theme park" in a damning letter sent to the Oxford Times by a Bodleian a staff member.
		Sir, It is gratifying to learn of John Goddard's disquiet at the planned Bodleian visitor programme (report, 9th March) as it is entirely shared by a large number of Bodleian staff, who regard the project as cynical and opportunist.
		To add to the insult for library staff, who object to a centre of scholastic excellence being turned into such a theme park, large numbers of us will have to be moved to a new location in the wasteland of Osney Mead, some two miles away, to make room for this and other projects.
	www.geocities.com /mjsayers/bodley2.html (986 words)

	Chapter Boaz and Jachin <i>to</i> Bold Stroke for a Wife of B by Brewer's Readers Handbook
		Bodleian Library (The), Oxford, founded by sir Thomas Bodley in 1597.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/174/1112/15825/1.html (604 words)

	Bodleian Library : Reader Services and Collection Development Department
		The Bodleian Law Library holds material of interest to linguistics readers at their European Documentation Centre, and the Oriental Institute Library and the Indian Institute Library both retain specialised materials on Oriental and South Asian linguistics.
		Outside the Bodleian group, the Taylor Institution Library caters for undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers of both General Linguistics and Comparative Philology, while the Modern Languages Faculty Library concentrates on providing undergraduate course material for students of linguistics related degrees.
		This lists reference works on open shelf in the Central Bodleian, the majority of which can be found in the Lower Reading Room of the old library, another comprehensive collection of linguistics reference works is available in the Upper Reading Room.
	www.bodley.ox.ac.uk /dept/readerserv/linguistics (769 words)

	Library - Wikimedia Commons
		Library of the Philological Faculty - Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
		Library of the Technical University and the Univsity of Arts, Berlin (Volkswagen Library) during night
		Inside the Library of the FH Eberswalde, germany.
	commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/Library (296 words)

	Bodleian Library - 24 Hour Museum - official guide to UK museums, galleries, exhibitions and heritage
		The Bodleian Library is the main research library of the University of Oxford.
		In addition, the Bodleian has seven dependent libraries, in separate locations in Oxford: the Bodleian Japanese Library, the Bodleian Law Library, the Indian Institute Library, the Oriental Institute Library, Rhodes House Library, the Radcliffe Science Library, and the Philosophy Library.
		Bodleian Library - 24 Hour Museum - official guide to UK museums, galleries, exhibitions and heritage
	www.24hourmuseum.org.uk /museum_gfx_en/AM10392.html (168 words)

	Individual libraries
		The map of libraries is available in several formats and shows the city centre of Oxford clearly marking the location of the libraries associated with the university.
		There are major research libraries, libraries attached to the faculties, departments and other institutions of the University, and college libraries.
		This is an alphabetical index of library names, with cross-references from commonly used alternative and superseded names.
	www.lib.ox.ac.uk /libraries (179 words)

	The Contents of Shelley's Notebooks in the Bodleian Library - Scholarly Resources, Romantic Circles
		Locock: C. Locock, ed., An Examination of the Shelley Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (1903).
		I was assisted by Dr. Bruce Barker-Benfield of the Bodleian Library in describing folders in which those sheets are kept.
		There are altogether 22 Shelley notebooks in the Bodleian Library: i.e.
	www.rc.umd.edu /reference/indexes/psbodleian/tokoo-contents.html (10819 words)

	Interesting Thing of the Day: The Bodleian Library
		The Bodleian Library is one of several copyright deposit libraries, which means that it automatically receives a free copy of all books and periodicals published in Britain.
		But the most impressive and well-known library on campus—indeed, one of the most impressive anywhere—is the Bodleian Library.
		However, the library also follows another traditional policy that is considerably more liberal: scholars from any university in the world are given free access to the library as readers, and those without a university affiliation can become readers by paying a nominal fee.
	www.itotd.com /index.alt?ArticleID=341 (1173 words)

	MUNDUS: Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House
		Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House
		Access conditions: Readers must hold a current reader's ticket for the Bodleian Library of the University of Oxford (of which the Rhodes House Library is a dependent library), available from the Admissions Office which is located in the Clarendon Building in Broad Street, Oxford.
		The Library is also strong in material covering related areas such as the history of British colonial administration, including the papers of the Anti-Slavery Society, the Fabian Colonial Bureau, and the Anti-Apartheid Movement; the Library has been the principal recipient of material gathered by the Oxford Colonial Records Project and succeeding schemes.
	www.mundus.ac.uk /sites/11.htm (575 words)

	Bodleian Library, Oxford
		The Bodleian Library is not one library but many, housed in buildings spread all over the city of Oxford.
		The historic core of the Bodleian is located around Radcliffe Square, however, with the oldest parts being the magnificent Duke Humphrey's Library (1488), and the Divinity School.
		The Bodleian buildings began in 1613, at the bequest of former Oxford student Thomas Bodley.
	www.britainexpress.com /cities/oxford/bodleian.htm (369 words)

	Oxford: Bodleian Library: Official Papers Section
		As a general principle it is understood that the Bodleian's holdings of official publications should reflect the Library's status as a major research institution; and that, except where otherwise stated, those holdings should form the principal concentration of such materials in Oxford.
		Most subjects are covered in the section but official publications relating to law, science and the Commonwealth countries will be found in the Bodleian Law Library, the Radcliffe Science Library and Rhodes House Library respectively.
		The Bodleian Library's Official Papers section has existed as a distinct entity since the late 1960's.
	www.bopcris.ac.uk /colldesc/coll213.html (916 words)

	Harvard University Library Notes
		The course was led by Christopher Clarkson, conservation consultant to the Bodleian Library, and sponsored by the Institute for Paper Conservation.
		McDowell is the assistant to the director of Radcliffe's Schlesinger Library.
		The topic of the day was mold in the library and included discussions of health and safety issues, in-house remediation, and working with a vendor to salvage affected material.
	hul.harvard.edu /publications/hul_notes_1302/staff.html (1145 words)

	The Impact of Emerging Technologies: The Infinite Library - Technology Review
		The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford in England is the only place you are likely to find an Ethernet port that looks like a book.
		They point out that libraries in the United States are gaining users, despite the advent of the Web, and that libraries are being constructed or renovated at an unprecedented rate (architect Rem Koolhaas’s Seattle Central Library, for example, is the new jewel of that city’s downtown).
		The digitization of the world’s enormous store of library books--an effort dating to the early 1990s in the United Kingdom, the United States, and elsewhere--has been a slow, expensive, and underfunded process.
	www.technologyreview.com /articles/05/05/issue/feature_library.asp (1178 words)

	ongoing · The Bodleian
		The big library at Oxford is named after its founder Thomas Bodley, whose admirably-short autobiography may be purchased in the gift shop.
		Any of the world’s big old research libraries has a story that’s worth hearing, and the Bodleian’s is too but I’m not going to tell it.
		Miscellaneous Wonders · The Bodleian has the world’s largest collection of Hebrew manuscripts; its holdings of Arabic, Persian, and various Indian languages are merely excellent.
	www.tbray.org /ongoing/When/200x/2005/08/02/Bodleian (573 words)

	ODLIS: Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science
		Books was initiated in 1874 by Léopold Délisle, a medievalist who served as administrator general of the library from 1874 until 1905.
		library conferences to identify attendees, by name and institution, to other participants.
		American Library Association, Association of American Publishers, American Society of Journalists and Authors, and National Association of College Stores and endorsed by the
	lu.com /odlis/odlis_b.cfm (6925 words)

	UIUC English Library
		The images will be sourced from libraries and archives around the world, including a strong core of document images from the Bodleian Library, Oxford."
		The English Library is a member of the Arts and Humanities Division of the Library.
		Backing up the English Library's collection and overseen by its staff are more than 700,000 volumes in the Main Library covering all areas of English and American literature, theatre history and performance, and cinema theory and history.
	www.library.uiuc.edu /egx (490 words)

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