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.
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