Want to know which databases the Bodleian subscribes to, and how you can access them? To celebrate our new trial of 'Oxford University Voltaire', for this weeks #TopTipThursTAY we will be showing you the easiest ways to access the databases we subscribe too!

🖥️ New e-resource! 📖 We're running a trial of: Oxford University Voltaire Through this trial, you can access the new digital edition of the Voltaire Foundation's 205-volume 'Oeuvres completes de Voltaire', allowing you to easily search, markup, and reference the text.

🎂 Celebrating 50 years of the Voltaire Room 🎂 To celebrate 50 years of our Voltaire Room, we are hosting a show-and-tell event to present some of our 18th century French books, which were acquired through the Barber fund. Please do come and join us! 📍Voltaire Room 📅 Friday 14th November ⏰2-3:15pm

🚧Service update🚧 We're happy to say our lift is now fully operational again! Our apologies again for any inconvenience this caused.

🚧Service update🚧 Our main lift is currently out of order. We are working to get it fixed. In the meantime, please let a member of staff know if you need us to fetch an item from an upper floor for you, and we will be happy to do so. Our apologies for the inconvenience. Updates to follow!

🏅Hungarian Nobel Prize Winner Display🏅 Our new display at the issue desk honours Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, who recently won the Nobel Prize for Literature. The display also features Imre Kertész, who won the same prize in 2002. Most books can be borrowed, just ask us at the desk!

#TopTipThursTAY Wondering how long you can take out books for? 🤔 Most of the Taylorian's books are Fixed Week Loans, which means you can have them for 7 days. The books automatically renew for up to 16 weeks if nobody else has requested them.

Happy Halloween from us all at the Taylor Institution Library! 🎃 Why not pick up a Halloween Read from our display by the Enquiries Desk on the second floor 🦇🕷️🕸️

This #TopTipsThursTAY, let's answer the question: can I eat/drink this in here? 🥪🍎 Generally, the answer is no - bottled water only is your best bet! If you're wondering why, see this wonderful poster via our friends at @bodartlib.bsky.social We do have a couple exceptions though...

The new Humanities Library is up and running, and already making changes based on your feedback! Well done team 💪

October has flown by! If you'd like to borrow one of our Black History Month display books, now is your chance. Next week they'll make their way back to their homes on our shelves 📖

Preparing for your literature review, Preregistration and registered reports, Managing research data, Foundations of copyright & Research metrics and citation analysis tools. Find out more about @bodleian.ox.ac.uk iSkills workshops taking place this week and book your place. tinyurl.com/mpkzhwz4

You may have noticed that we have some new additions to the Taylorian - food recycling bins! ♻️ You'll find one in the common room, and one in the lobby. We also have dry recycling bins throughout the library. Let's all do our best to recycle our waste this #GreenLibrariesWeek ✅

Are you ready for another #TopTipThursTAY? 📚Did you know the Bodleian recently expanded the number of books that can be loaned from our offsite storage facility? We now have 2 million borrowable items in offsite storage! 📖You can check if an item is borrowable by looking on SOLO. Let's search!

Have you heard of the Bodleian iSkills workshops? 💻The information skills team run free, librarian-led workshops to help students, staff and academics gain essential data and information skills to assist with researching!

A new academic year marks the return of #TopTipThursTAY! 🎉 Every Thursday during term time we will post a tip to help you get the most out of our library! Today’s #TopTipThursTAY, we are focusing on a key skill for our new undergraduate readers- how to find a book in our Teaching Collection!

We support this message! Our vacation loans also come to an end today. Please return any books that have reached their due date- we can always re-issue any books you would like to keep (if they're not requested). Books issued from today will be loaned for the normal 7 day auto-renewal period.

👋 Welcome 👋 As we head into Michaelmas Term, we want to welcome any new readers to the Taylorian, and say welcome back to everyone who's returning. Good luck for the term ahead (and for collections for those taking them)! Please do get in contact with us if there's any way we can help this term!

📖 Book launch! 📖 Tomorrow evening, we are hosting a book launch for 'Luisa Hewitt: The Girl Who Lived in the Library', a book about a woman who grew up living in the Taylorian. Please do come and join us for what is sure to be an incredibly interesting event! We look forward to seeing you there!

It's the start of a new term! 🌱 We're excited to welcome (or welcome back) Modern Languages students and all library users to the Temple of Fun (also known as the Taylorian). New Modern Languages students - don't forget to book onto an induction tour here! www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/ask/getting-...

🗺️ Collections Location Updates! 📚 Over the summer vacation, we’ve been busy improving the layout of some of our collections for you, which means some of our collections have moved, or been integrated into others. Here’s a quick guide to the differences you'll see:

Hello Bluesky! We are the Bodleian Social Science Library (or SSL for short) & are part of @bodleian.ox.ac.uk supporting staff & students in the Social Sciences Division at Oxford Univ. Follow us to learn more about our collections & services & to be kept up to date with all the latest SSL news.

Good news - we've extended our opening hours! 🔔 For all readers, we're open: Monday - Friday, 9am-8pm Further hours (including weekends!) are available for the Humanities Division, the Oxford Internet Institute, and Joint Schools in Philosophy. Full details: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/libraries/hu...

We've been delighted that so many of you have come to see the new library! If you haven't had a chance to make it yet, here's a little sneak peek of our new library for you ✨📚✨

📖 Induction tours! 📖 The start of the academic year is fast approaching! Are you new to the University and/or the Taylorian? We are running 30 minute induction tours during 0th and 1st week (8th-10th & 13th-14th October) to show you how to find and use our collections and study spaces!

📚 Book launch! 📚 Join us for the release of our new 'Treasures of the Taylorian' book 'Luisa Hewitt: The Girl Who Lived in the Library'- written by Luisa herself, and edited by Christina Ostermann! 📍Room 2, Taylor Institution Library 📅 Wednesday 15th October ⏰ 5:00 - 6:30pm

And they're gone! 👋 Last week, we said goodbye to our Film Studies books and DVDs, and sent them over to the new Humanities Library! These items will therefore be unavailable for the next couple of weeks, until the Humanities Library opens- follow @bodhumslib.bsky.social for updates on this!

👋Goodbye to the Film Studies collections 🎬 The film collections at the Taylorian will be leaving us this Thursday in preparation for their move to the new Humanities library. They will be unavailable for a few weeks, so do your borrowing now! For more updates, follow @bodhumslib.bsky.social!

🎡St Giles' Fair closure🎡 We'll be closed on Monday and Tuesday (8th & 9th) next week for the St Giles' Fair! We'll reopen as usual on Wednesday the 10th.

📝 New Blog Post! 📝 Check out this new @voltaire.ox.ac.uk blog post by Nicholas Cronk, celebrating our recent acquisition of a rare printing of Voltaire's Candide, from 1791. Read on to learn more about the novel itself and the history of its publication, as well as more details on our new edition!

🥳 Please do go and follow the Bodleian Humanities Library's new account, for all the latest updates on this fantastic new library! This is especially important if you currently visit us for our Film Studies collection, as this will be moving over to them this September (stay tuned for more info)!

On Saturday 6th September, we will be hosting the final day of the Anglo-German Colloquium's international conference on German Medieval Studies, alongside @somervillecollege.bsky.social Follow the link below for more details about the conference (running 3rd-6th September), and to sign up!

❗August Bank Holiday Closure❗ We will be closed Saturday 23rd and Monday 25th August for the bank holiday. The library will be open as usual from 9am on Tuesday 26th August! Enjoy the long weekend 🏝️

Do you use the Chicago Manual of Style for your citations? In response to reader demand, Humanities Libraries have taken a year’s subscription for Chicago Manual of Style as a trial. You can access CMOS via SOLO and Databases A-Z. More info here: blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/history/2025...

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...

Recently acquired for @tayoxford.bsky.social through the William Barber Fund, this previously unrecorded edition of Candide, dated 1791 (the year in which Voltaire's remains were transferred to the Panthéon), with two plates #c18th #c18 #18thc

A reminder that these building works are continuing this week! 🚧 Stay tuned for updates, and check signage on both of our entrances to determine where you need to enter the building. Please also come to the Issue Desk to collect some free earplugs if the building work becomes too noisy! 👂

🚧 Building works disruption 🚧 The Entrance lobby will be under construction for several days, and there may be noise disruption. The St Giles' entrance will occasionally be closed, with signs posted to the alternative entrance (the ceremonial doors in the archway). Stay tuned for updates!

The Bodleian Latin American Centre Library is now on Bluesky!

Staff have started work on a summer project. Some areas in the First Floor Teaching Collection may look empty as staff work to reclassify the linguistic section into library of congress call numbers. ✋ Readers may experience some light disruption from staff shelving and moving books.

☀️Keeping Cool at the Taylorian ☀️ With all of the hot weather recently, we thought we should let you know about all the ways you can stay cool and safe while working here!

🚧Systems update this weekend 🚧 SOLO will be unavailable due to essential maintenance from Saturday (6am onwards) until Sunday morning. Find out more here about options for accessing library systems and services during the downtime: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/service-upda...

📣Art installation at the Taylor📣 Come to the Slavonic Reading Room to see 'Moje Dziedzictwo' (My Heritage). Julia Widuch's piece explores Polish identity and the artist's family story, including the impact of her great-grandfather's imprisonment.

A quick reminder that our opening times don't change during the long vacation - it's business as usual! The Taylor is open from 9am to 7pm, Monday to Friday. We're also open on Saturdays between 10am and 6pm.

🖌️New Exhibition 📖 Our new exhibition, 'Le Livre d'Artiste', is now open, and showcases two approaches in the Artist Book tradition. 📍Voltaire Room, Taylor Institution Library 📅 Until 7th July 2025 ⏰ 9am-5pm Mon-Fri, 10am-6pm Sat.

☀️Keeping Cool at the Taylorian ☀️ With all of the hot weather recently, we thought we should let you know about all the ways you can stay cool and safe while working here!

Inspired by #SpeakCornishWeek #SeythenKewselKernewek last week? We have a wonderful collection of Cornish books, suitable for both fluent speakers and those who want to learn the language! They can be found as part of our Celtic Collection, in the South Basement and the Basement Reading Area 🎉

Don't forget to return your books and lighten your suitcase for moving home or going on holiday! Congratulations and best of luck to all our finalists finishing up this summer!

The 22nd Oxford German Graduate Symposium is this Saturday at the Taylorian! This year's topic is 'Constructions of Sameness, Constructions of Difference – Identity Discourses in Germanophone Culture'. See the schedule below, and don't forget to register: forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...

Happening this afternoon - get your free books right here!