Images

I have been searching for images to provide a visual aspect to the project. Using a simple Google search, most of the most relevant results of course were links to the Oxford University website. However, I was able to find a range of good quality photographs of the Bodleian Library at Photobucket. The image at left is just one of 201 images of various aspects of the library available at this site. I will also search for images relevant to the other parts of the project.

Another aspect for which I would like to gather images is the section on important people in the history of the Bodleian Library, in searching for information on these people through the databases at the State Library, and in particular the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, I stumbled upon the National Portrait Gallery in England, where I was able to find an image of Sir Thomas Bodley in my initial search. There are several other people, such as Sir Humfrey, Duke of Gloucester, who donated his collection to the University, and Thomas James, the first librarian of the Bodleian Library, for whom I will search for images.

Image citation:

Outside of the Bodleian Library n.d., viewed 22/5/2010, http://media.photobucket.com/image/bodleian%20library/perry-oxford/Bodleian%20Library/BodleianLibrary1.jpg?o=10

LIbrary Research

This week I have visited the State Library of Victoria, the Bailleau Library at the University of Melbourne and the Louis Matheson Library at Monash University to conduct some further research.

I have particularly been looking for information on how universities came into being in general, and how they rose up in the United Kingdom. In addition to this, I have sought further information on the development of Oxford University in particular, and the establishment of the Bodleian Library to supplement the information that I found on the history of the library on their website.

The following texts have been consulted so far:

Anderson, R D 2006, British Universities past and present, Continuum, London

Aston, T H 1984, The History of the University of Oxford, Clarendon Press, Oxford

Barber, G 1995, Arks for learning: a short history of Oxford library buildings, Oxford Bibliographic Society, Oxford

Barker, E 1946, British Universities, Longmans, London

Burnett, C F 1997, The introduction of Arabic Learning into England, British Library, London

Cobban, A B 1988, The Medieval English Universities: Oxford and Cambridge to c. 1500, Scholar Press, Aldershot

Craster, E 1981, History of the Bodleian Library 1845-1945, The Library, Oxford

Gillam, S 1988, The Divinity School and Duke Humfrey’s Library at Oxford, Clarendon Press in association with the Bodleian Library, Oxford

Green, V H H 1974, A History of Oxford University, Batsford, London

Mountford, J 1966, British Universities, Oxford University Press, London

Philip, I 1983, The Bodleian Library in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Clarendon Press, Oxford

Prest, J 1993, The Illustrated History of Oxford University, Oxford University Press, Oxford

Rogers, D 1991, The Bodleian Library and its treasures 1320-1700, Aidan Ellis, Henley-on-Thames

One thing that I found particularly useful given that the State Library is a research library and therefore books cannot be borrowed is the ability to place books that have been requested from storage on reserve for a seven day period. Since I have been looking at so much material this has been very useful.