Welcome to the new home for books owned by oxford universitys. Due to the sheer number of collections its held since being built in 1602. With our new storage facility at swindon and renewed spaces for study in place or under development in the heart of oxford, our readers can look. On thursday 30th march, michael williams and his team opened the doors of the bodleian libraries book storage facility in swindon, having. Bodleian libraries completes swindon move bbc news. The bodleians new weston library would not exist without its book storage facility, just north of the a420 in swindon. The new facility will also enable the new bodleian to be redeveloped as a modern special collections library and research centre. Oxford bodleian librarys book storage facility in swindon. Oxfords bodleian library has found a new home for some eight million of oxford universitys library books at a 300,000 sq ft site in swindon. Oxford bus introduced a fleet of 20 new buses with flywheel energy storage. Oxford is a very crowded place, and it is very hard to build anything there.
The book storage facility bsf has the capacity for 8 million volumes. By james wallin an artists impression of what the new facility will look like. The bsf was built as shelving space had been running out at the existing bookstacks across the bodleian libraries and in the temporary storage facilities already used by the bodleian both within oxford image of shelving within the bodleian libraries book storage facilityand across the uk. Swindonweb everything swindon news, jobs, accommodation in. It marks the end of the project to move lesser used stock from the main.
This unique purposebuilt warehouse in south marston, on the outskirts of swindon was designed as a bespoke storage facility for the bodleian s vast collections. News bodleian library storage scheme delights council. Family golf centre just off jnct 16, m4 featuring a payandplay 9hole golf course, 18hole football golf, floodlit driving range, resident pga. Scott brownriggpa today professor andrew hamilton and dr sarah thomas. Chinese buffetstyle restaurant in regent street, swindon town centre, open 7 days a week. At that point you wake in an overheated tangle of 4am duvet and vow never again to eat cheese and crackers at bedtime unless you happen to be wide awake already and standing in the bodleian library s book storage facility in south marston. It teamed up with total logistics to develop and define a book storage facility system, which could cope with its growing volumes. Literature, bequeathed to the bodleian library, in 1799, by richard gough. To store up to eight million volumes and the building has an extended building life of 100 years to avoid future disruption to operations. British library shelfmarks are given in square brackets. This unique purposebuilt warehouse in south marston, on the outskirts of swindon was designed as a bespoke storage facility for the bodleians.
The bodleian library, located in oxford, is the largest university library system in the united kingdom. The new facility has the initial capacity to support the libraries projected collections growth during the next 20 years with space on the acre site to build additional storage. Seven millionth bodleian book moved swindon advertiser. In front of you is a book entitled iron uptake and homeostasis in microorganisms. Bodleian book storage, swindon hurley palmer flatt. A vast store for oxford universitys renowned bodleian libraries has taken delivery of its seven millionth book. The storage facility was built to relieve pressure on the bodleians. Bodleian library storage scheme delights council swindon. The new book warehouse, in south marston, near swindon, has. Bodleian libraries warehouse opens swindon advertiser. The seven millionth book has been placed on the shelves of the bodleian libraries book storage facility, in south marston. In front of you is a book entitled iron uptake and homeostasis in micro organisms. While the bsf will house predominantly lowuse items from the new bodleian s collections, the radcliffe science library has become the temporary home for a high proportion of the universitys special collections. Oxford is a university city in oxfordshire, england, with a population of 155,000.
These rivers and their flood plains constrain the size of the city centre. Bodleian book storage, swindon a new build book storage facility for national archive and legal deposit storage to bs 5454. A brand new book storage facility to house the lower usage items from the bodleian library at oxford university. Bodleian library sets up in swindon books the guardian. Even then, youll still feel as if youre in a dream. As a result, the greatest single part of the university of oxford bodleian library collection the book storage facility, holding 8,328,367 books and roughly 1.
Lists books which include views of cities and towns worldwide with monuments. Book storage facility in october 2010, the bodleian libraries of the university of oxford unveiled a new. Bodleian books move to swindon library buys land to build new storage facility. Inside the bodleian librarys storehouse this is wiltshire.
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