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Bodleian Art, Archaeology, and Ancient World Library @bodartlib.bsky.social · 1d

Our first day of tours is done, and we want your feedback!

Is there something you wish we spent more time talking about? Anything we could have skipped?

Do you think your guide's jumper was cool and just want to pay a compliment?

Let us know by popping a note in the Whimsy Cube!

A multi-coloured suggestion box with cute doodles of stars and animals on it. There is a sign pointing to a slot in the top that reads: "Please place feedback in the whimsy cube", and there are pens and slips of paper on the table in front of it.

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CILIP @cilip.bsky.social · 3d

This week is #BannedBooksWeekUK. Join @indexoncensorship.org to celebrate the books that have been challenged, removed or silenced, and to stand with the people who write, sell and lend them. Celebrate the freedom to read.

Banned Books Week UK - Index on Censorship

Banned Books Week UK returns from 5–11 October 2025. It’s a week to celebrate the books that have been challenged, removed or silenced

www.indexoncensorship.org

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Bodleian Art, Archaeology, and Ancient World Library @bodartlib.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Noughth Week!

The Art Library team are excited to welcome all the new faces coming to Oxford this year, and say welcome back to those returning!

Don't forget to sign up for our induction tours, running for the next two weeks:
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/ask/getting-...

A photo of the front doors of the Art Library, which are made from heavy wood and glass, with columns on either side.

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Bodleian Art, Archaeology, and Ancient World Library @bodartlib.bsky.social · 6d

📣Library News📣

We'll be running induction tours for the next couple of weeks, so you can get acquainted (or re-acquainted) with our layout and systems for the coming year.

We can't wait to see you all there!

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Bodleian Art, Archaeology, and Ancient World Library @bodartlib.bsky.social · 6d

And we like your poetry display table!

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Bodleian Art, Archaeology, and Ancient World Library @bodartlib.bsky.social · 8d

In the run-up to Michaelmas term, we wanted to spread the word about these handy 30-minute webinars!

The sessions will introduce you to the Bodleian Libraries, and show how we can help you get the most out of your degree.

www.new.ox.ac.uk/bodleian-lib...

The Bodleian Libraries Induction Webinars | New College

www.new.ox.ac.uk

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University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · 20d

NEW: Oxford will be the first UK university to give all staff and students free ChatGPT Edu access, from this academic year.

ChatGPT Edu is built for education, with enhanced privacy and security.

Graphic from the University of Oxford, featuring an image of a glowing, digital brain with the text: 'Generative AI at Oxford'. Highlights that ChatGPT Edu is now available to all staff and students. Includes a link for more information: ox.ac.uk/gen-ai

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Bodleian Art, Archaeology, and Ancient World Library @bodartlib.bsky.social · 16d

Watery environments don't usually mix well with libraries, but we've found a way to make it work!

"Decks and Wrecks: a Voyage through Maritime Art and Archaeology" is now available for you to peruse on the ground floor.

A collection of books arranged on a table, all on the subject of maritime art and archaeology

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Bodleian Art, Archaeology, and Ancient World Library @bodartlib.bsky.social · 20d

It was great to see so many of you at our open day today!
#GoingToOxford

An exterior shot of the Art Library rotunda on a sunny day

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Bodleian Art, Archaeology, and Ancient World Library @bodartlib.bsky.social · 23d

From coinage to colours: here is this week's new book display!

Several books about archaeology and classics arranged on a shelf. Three books are turned to face the viewer, titled "The Roman Republic", "Ludique: Jouer dans l'antiquite", and "The Royal Coinage of Kition and Idalion"

Several books about art history arranged on a shelf. Two books are turned to face the viewer, titled "Chroma: Sculpture in Colour from Antiquity to Today", and "1960s University Buildings"

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Radcliffe Science Library @radcliffescilib.bsky.social · 28d

📢 The revamped Open Access Oxford website needs testing! 📢

If you're an academic, researcher, or research support staff, we want your feedback!

If you can spare 30 minutes for a Teams call before the 19th September, please email [email protected] to take part.

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Bodleian Art, Archaeology, and Ancient World Library @bodartlib.bsky.social · Aug 28

Welcome to our friends at @bodhumslib.bsky.social!
We know a lot of hard work is going into this book move, so why not follow along?

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Bodleian Art, Archaeology, and Ancient World Library @bodartlib.bsky.social · Aug 28

Welcome to our friends at @bodhumslib.bsky.social!
We know a lot of hard work is going into this book move, so why not follow along?

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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · Aug 27

Step inside a record shop and you’ll be surrounded by artworks.

This is something that Stanley Donwood and Thom Yorke have always considered, always approaching album covers as works of art in themselves.

This Is What You Get: Stanley Donwood, Radiohead, Thom Yorke is open until 11 January.

A photograph of a wall of vinyls on display

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Bodleian Art, Archaeology, and Ancient World Library @bodartlib.bsky.social · Aug 20

☀️Bank Holiday Update☀️

The Art Library will be closed from Saturday 23rd to Monday 25th inclusive.

Have a great weekend, and we'll see you on Tuesday!

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Bodleian Art, Archaeology, and Ancient World Library @bodartlib.bsky.social · Aug 19

Happy World Photography Day!

You can find our photography collection primarily on the second and third floors, under shelfmarks starting with "TR"

Shelves of books about photography, three of which have been turned towards us.

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Bodleian Art, Archaeology, and Ancient World Library @bodartlib.bsky.social · Aug 14

Congratulations to everyone who received their A-Level results today!

We can't wait to welcome the new cohort of Art Historians, Archaeologists, Classicists, and book lovers of all academic persuasions!

#ALevelResultsDay #GoingToOxford

The interior of the Art Library, showing a few of the columns, book stacks, and desks

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Bodleian Art, Archaeology, and Ancient World Library @bodartlib.bsky.social · Aug 11

New week, new book display!

#Archaeology #ArtHistory #Classics #Libraries

Several books about Archaeology and Classics on a shelf

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Taylor Institution Library (Taylorian) @tayoxford.bsky.social · Aug 5

Having issues with eduroam Wi-Fi?

Due to a scheduled change of the eduroam security certificate, users will need to update their settings to connect to the service.

Find more information here on how to do this: www.it.ox.ac.uk/article/edur...

Update your eduroam settings

3 July 2025 (news): On 5 August 2025, the security certificate for connecting to eduroam Wi-Fi will be retired and a new certificate will take effect. All eduroam users must take action to keep using ...

www.it.ox.ac.uk

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Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk · Aug 5

Bodleian Book Hospital. 22 August, 11.00–15.00.

Bring flapless lift-the-flaps & scribbled on bedtime stories to the Bodleian Book Hospital where our Conservation Team will fix 'well-loved' favourites and show little ones how to care for treasured tomes.

visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/summer...

Collage of images from our last Book Hospital event showing Bodleian staff, children and parents engaging in reading and crafting activities. Includes one of our talented conservators reading to a group, another pretending to repair a book with medical gauze, and a young child attending a craft session making colourful paper projects. A round sticker overlaying the images reads 'Book Doctor In Training'.

A document titled "Book Hospital Check Up Sheet" including fields for 'Trainee Book Doctor's Age', today's date, and questions about the condition of a book, with checkboxes for types of damage and a space for drawing the book's damage.

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Bodleian Art, Archaeology, and Ancient World Library @bodartlib.bsky.social · Aug 1

🚧Service Update🚧

Due to some technical difficulties, books ordered from offsite this morning will be arriving with Monday's delivery.

If you placed an order yesterday, don't worry, it will still arrive today!

A view of a blue sky through the circular, glass ceiling of our atrium.

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Dr Thomas R.P. Coward @tomcoward.bsky.social · Jul 30

Another week spent in the Papyrology rooms @bodartlib.bsky.social and other nearby places. #ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky

A table. On it a piece of papyrus in a glass plate held together by bull clips under a binocular microscope with LED ring light. Digital infra red microscope is on top of the plate attached to a computer. To the right several books including an increasingly annotated copy of Merkelbach-West.

Tosca the black and white cat with half white moustache and her purple brush sitting upright on a table.

View of the lake at Worcester College Oxford. Large lake in foreground with lily pads and surrounded by trees with a blue sky with patchy white clouds

An oval box made of silver containing cheese crackers. Dedication by William Force Stead, an American priest, diplomat and poet who was friends with Elliot and Yeats. The now cracker box commemorates the Anglo-American victory in WW2.

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Bodleian Art, Archaeology, and Ancient World Library @bodartlib.bsky.social · Jul 24

Welcome to the club!

Bodleian Art, Archaeology, and Ancient World Library @bodartlib.bsky.social · Jul 18

"Around the World in 80 Clays" is our newest table display on the ground floor!

It is a celebration of ceramics, both ancient and modern, from across the globe, with contributions from all of the Art Library's collections.

Many books about pottery and ceramics arranged on a table. Their subject matter spans multiple countries, both ancient and modern, East and West. In the centre is an earth-toned poster reading "Around the World in 80 Clays".

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Bodleian Art, Archaeology, and Ancient World Library @bodartlib.bsky.social · Jul 18

Art ✅ Archaeology ✅ Ancient World ✅

How can we not be excited about an exhibition that combines all of our subject areas?

The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · Jul 17

Artists travel back in time with work created from ancient wood discovered at site of lost London river

Jane and Louise Wilson’s work will go on show at site of Roman temple in the heart of London buff.ly/SrGF9Oc

Photo © 2025 Jason Alden

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