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Bodleian Art, Archaeology and Ancient World Library - Wikipedia

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Bodleian Art, Archaeology and Ancient World Library
The library entrance on St John Street, Oxford

Location	St John Street, Oxford, England
Type	Academic library
Established	2001
Collection
Items collected	The University of Oxford collection specialising in archaeology, art history and classics
Size	300,000
Legal deposit	receives legal deposit books in relevant subject areas via the Bodleian's copyright receipt office
Access and use
Access requirements	Current University Card. Bona fide researchers may register to use the Library for reference only.
Other information
Employees	32
Website	https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/art

The Bodleian Art, Archaeology and Ancient World Library (‘Bodleian Art Library’ in its shortened form, formerly the Sackler Library) holds a large portion of the classical, art historical, and archaeological works belonging to the University of Oxford, England.

History

The library building was completed in 2001 and opened on 24 September of that year, enabling the rehousing of the library of the Ashmolean Museum. The library entrance is at 1 St John Street. It was principally funded by a donation from the multi-millionaire Mortimer Sackler. It was designed by Robert Adam with Paul Hanvey of ADAM Architecture. Its main building is a circular drum, a reference to the Classical origins of many of its holdings. One of the outer walls of the drum is decorated by a Classical frieze. The architects claim the circular entrance vestibule is derived from the Doric Temple of Apollo at Bassae, first excavated by Charles Robert Cockerell, the architect who designed the adjacent Ashmolean Museum.^[1] The library is administered as part of the multi-site Bodleian Library, the central libraries of the University of Oxford

Renaming

The library was originally named for the Sackler family, whose funding of the arts became controversial in the context of the opioid epidemic.^[2] It was renamed the Bodleian Art, Archaeology and Ancient World Library at a meeting of the University Council on 15 May 2023, following a review of the university's relationship with the family.^[3]

Collections

The library's holdings incorporate the collections of four older libraries, namely the Ashmolean library, the Classics Lending Library, the Eastern Art Library, the Griffith Institute and the History of Art Library. Major subject areas are:

Western European Art since c. AD 1000
History of Art
Classical and Byzantine art and archaeology
Papyrology and Greco-Roman Egypt
Near Eastern archaeology and cuneiform languages
Egyptology and Coptic
Ancient history
Epigraphy
Classical languages and literature
Prehistoric archaeology of Europe and North Africa
Archaeology of Roman provinces
Medieval European archaeology
Theoretical and scientific archaeology
Numismatics

Among the celebrated holdings are the Heracles Papyrus, a fragment of 3rd century Greek manuscript containing a poem about the Labours of Heracles, along with over 100,000 fragments found at Oxyrhynchus known as the Oxyrhynchus Papyri.

References

^ Robert Adam Archived 2010-07-29 at the Wayback Machine
^ Moody, Michael; Pratt, Michael (2023). "Tainted money and tainted donors". In Breeze, Beth; Day Lafferty, Donna; Wiepking, Pamala (eds.). The fundraising reader. London: Routledge. pp. 361–364. doi:10.4324/9781003145936-76. ISBN 9780367703714.
^ "Sackler: relationship review". University of Oxford. 15 May 2023. Retrieved 16 May 2023.

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Humanities	Asian and Middle Eastern Studies American Institute Art Classics History Linguistics, Philology & Phonetics Medieval and Modern Languages Music Philosophy Theology and Religion
Medical Sciences	Biochemistry Human Genetics Medical School Pathology Population Health
Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences	Biology Chemistry Computer Science Earth Sciences Engineering Science Materials Mathematical Institute Physics
Social Sciences	Archaeology Business Continuing Education Economics Government International Development Law Politics & International Relations Social Policy and Intervention
Gardens, Libraries & Museums	Ashmolean Museum Bodleian Libraries Botanic Garden History of Science Natural History Pitt Rivers

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Bodleian Libraries

Bodleian Library	Old library Duke Humfrey's Radcliffe Camera New library Weston Gladstone Link
Other libraries in the group	Alexander Library of Ornithology Bodleian Law Bodleian Social Science Nizami Ganjavi Library Radcliffe Science Rewley House Continuing Education Art, Archaeology and Ancient World Sainsbury Library at the Saïd Business School Taylor Institution Vere Harmsworth Rothermere American Institute

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International	ISNI VIAF
National	Germany

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