an image of the Main Reading Room, a room with wooden inlayed walls, a fireplace with marble busts, a large oil portrait, and a chandelier.
A sunny welcome back to all our students for Trinity term! 🌞 It's lovely to see you all working hard already.
Don't forget to take breaks and hydrate - our Common Room has a water fountain 🚰 and spots for you to sit and comfortably rest
Book cover for Faoi scáíl gheal na hIndia
Cover of Dizionario dei Promessi sposi
Faoi scáíl gheal na hIndia
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Dizionario dei Promessi sposi
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Book cover for Anthologie des troubadours de la Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Book cover of Maneggiare con cura
Book cover of An cláirseoir
Anthologie des troubadours de la Nouvelle-Aquitaine
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Maneggiare con cura
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An cláirseoir : úrscéal staire faoi theacht na Normannach go hÉirinn
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a photo showing a stack of new books
a photo of the new books display, showing new research collection books in display stands on shelves
New term, new books! Our Research Collection new books display has been updated 🥳
Head to the Enquiries desk to have a browse 📖
Book cover for Chronicling Lost Legacies, Women Collectors, Patrons and Tastemakers
Book cover of Japan Art Revolution
Chronicling Lost Legacies: Women Collectors, Patrons, and Tastemakers solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/44...
Japan art revolution: the Japanese avant-garde, from Angura to Provoke: solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/44...
an image of the new books display shelves
an image of the new books display shelves
Don't forget our New Books Display is refreshed every Monday 🌟📚
Check out some highlights from this week's display ⬇️
We will be happy to accept readers escaping the Taylor at this noisy time 🔊
A reminder that we are closed over the Easter period! 🐇🍫
We will be closed from Friday 3rd to Monday 6th April (inclusive)! 📆
Please come and collect any books you need over the Easter weekend before we close at 7pm tomorrow.
An adult cormorant standing on one leg on the remains of a fallen tree trunk in a stream flowing from the Thames in Oxford.
On my way to the Latin American Centre, Oxford, yesterday. A cormorant.
With clocks going forward an hour tonight, we make the change from Greenwich Mean Time to British Summer Time. This might mean one hour less in bed but it also means the sun won’t set before 7:30 pm again until September! 🥳
Top hits include...
♻️'Did the Romans Recycle?'🔍
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and 'The History of Magic: From Alchemy to Witchcraft'🧙♀️
www.arch.ox.ac.uk/history-magic
Happy listening! 🎧
Did you know that @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social has podcasts and lectures you can listen to online?
Highly recommended for any enthusiasts (or expert procrastinators) over the vac! 🏺🔍 #FYIFriday
www.arch.ox.ac.uk/podcasts
A poster with a grassy background which reads: "We are closing for Easter - The Art, Archaeology, and Ancient World Library will be closed from Thursday 2nd April 21:00 until Tuesday 7th April 09:00"
💐Heads up: we'll be closed for the Easter Bank Holiday!💐
A shelf of visibly damaged books, with a label on it that reads "Repairs - trained staff minor repairs"
Happy #FYIFriday!
Did you know the team here can so minor book repairs? Well we can, but we need your help!
If you see a book that looks like it could do with a little TLC, just bring it to the issue desk, and we'll take it from there!
We've said goodbye to the Common Room Revamp board. Thank you for all your suggestions and votes!
Our Librarian in Charge is busy analysing your suggestions, and we will keep you posted about the improvements we make ✅
🚧Roof Repairs🚧
Between 30th March - 1st May the scaffolding for our roof maintenance work will be constructed 🔨👷♂️
Apologies in advance for any noise disruption!
Modern Languages @ox.ac.uk ranked no. 1! @oxfordgerman.bsky.social
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-03...
We hope this makes you feel confident to order any special collections items you need!
If you have any questions, we're always happy to go through things with you.
📚
A fragile special collections item with a loose page, with a yellow slip next to it. The slip reads 'to be consulted at the invigilated desk'
An image of the invigilated desk. It is a wooden desk with a leather inlaid chair. There are book rests on the table, and a special collections item with a loose page and an invigilated desk slip. There is a posted encouraging the use of book rests and book snakes.
If the item is particularly fragile, it will have a yellow slip in it.
This means you need to take special care when using the item, and look at it at our invigilated desk.
A special collections book with a marbled cover. It has a green 'confined to the library' special collections slip in it.
Once you have sent the request, it will be delivered to the location you have selected (usually within 24 hours!). You will receive an email notification once it has arrived ✉️
At the Taylorian, we keep these requests in a secure location. Head to the second-floor Enquiries Desk to collect them. 📖
A screenshot of SOLO showing the request options for an item. There is a dropdown box saying 'loan policies'. Underneath, a heading reading 'Delivery/Pickup Location' has a padlock symbol above it, and reads 'Taylor Library Special Collections Staffed Collect'. There is a green 'Send Request' button.
Sometimes you can request non-Taylorian special collections items to our Taylor Library Special Collections Staffed Collect location.
If this is possible, it will be an option in the dropdown 'Delivery/Pickup Location' box.
A screenshot of SOLO showing the request options for an item. There is a dropdown box saying 'loan policies'. Underneath, a heading reading 'Delivery/Pickup Location' has a padlock symbol above it, and reads 'Taylor Library Special Collections Staffed Collect'. There is a green 'Send Request' button.
Some items can only be delivered to the special collections desk associated with the institution that owns the item.
For example, this item (a fascinating Artists' Book showing various stories about a shrimp) can only be requested to the Taylorian, so the location has a padlock symbol🔒
Screenshot of a SOLO search, showing an offsite special collections item information under the 'locations' heading
A screenshot of SOLO. Heading 'location items', subheading 'Taylor Institution Library'. Information reads: Item in place, Use in Library Only, Offsite Storage - Special Collections - must request delivery. There is a green 'request options' button.
On SOLO, click on the Taylor Institution Library item under 'locations'.
If it's an offsite special collections item, it will say 'Offsite Storage - Special Collections, must request delivery'. Click on the item, then the green 'Request Options' button. ❇️
Special collections items that are stored offsite can only be requested to a secure special collections desk location.
For the Taylorian we have the 'Taylor Library Special Collections Staffed Collect' location. But how do you order an item? 🤔
For this week's #TopTipThursTAY, let's talk about ordering Taylorian special collections items from offsite!
🐰Easter Closure🐣💐
We will close at 7pm, Thursday 2nd April and reopen 9am, Tuesday 7th April.
The final delivery from Bodleian Offsite Storage will be the afternoon of Thursday 2nd.
We hope you have a good Easter weekend! 🌷
My review of 'The Art of the Book' which celebrates the 75th anniversary of @thamesandhudson.bsky.social is in @theobserveruk.bsky.social. It is a sumptuous book about the power of books (& the power of reading): & a publishing house as a cultural institution. observer.co.uk/culture/book...
Vacation loans have started!
Easter vacation loans started yesterday, Monday 9th March:
Books and DVDs borrowed after Monday 9th March are due for return or renewal on Tuesday 28th April.
We're looking forward to all the beautiful botanical art in this exhibition! 🌷
Our Easter Vacation Loans poster. The poster mostly has a while background, but has a dark blue bar at the top, which has 'Easter Vacation Loans' written on it in white, and at the bottom, which has the logos of the Bodleian Libraries and Taylor Institution Library. The text reads: 'Vacation loans will occur: Monday 9th March 2026 to Tuesday 28th April 2026. All Taylorian items and some Bodleian Offsite Storage items which are loaned or renewed after 9th March will have a new due date of 28th April. Please remember to return or renew your books before leaving Oxford. We hope you enjoy your break!' The text is surrounded by seven colourful Easter eggs, and then also cartoon pictures of a chick, a lamb, and a rabbit reading books, which have been given the titles 'Ficciones- Borges', 'Faust- Goethe', and 'Candide- Voltaire'
📚 Vacation Loans 📚
Vacation loans have also now begun! All Taylorian and some Bodleian Offsite Storage items which are loaned or renewed after the 9th March will have a new due date of the 28th April!