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📣Voltaire Room reopens 📣

The Voltaire Room has had a glow-up! The space is now open again to readers.

Thank you for bearing with us while we redecorated; we hope you like the results!
The Taylor Institution Library's Voltaire room. The walls are painted mainly light blue with white trim, while the lower quarter of each wall is darker blue. The ceiling has a decorative centrepiece in gold and white. There are four large windows in the room, reaching almost ceiling height, which are letting in a large amount of natural light. Towards the back of the room, there are several large wooden tables for study, with chairs and lamps with pleated lampshades. There are tall bookshelves against the walls filled with books, with artwork above them. There are also two lower-height shelving cabinets for books, on which a selection of marble busts and picture frames are placed. In the foreground is a glass-topped museum-style cabinet for displaying exhibits; this is one of three that we can see towards the front of the room.
April 15, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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🎁New arrivals🎁
We now have 10 monitors throughout the library to which readers can connect their own devices. (Spare cables can be loaned for the day from the Issue Desk if needed.) Just ask if you need any help.
We also have new height-adjustable desks in the Greek and the Slavonic Reading Rooms.
A photograph of a study desk in the Taylor Institution Library. On the desk is a PC monitor with a power cable attached. The monitor's screen is blank; it is not switched on. Next to the monitor is a lamp. In the background, library bookshelves and a library ladder are visible.
April 17, 2025 at 1:15 PM