Talk:Bodleian Library

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Help with this template Comments: edit – history – watch – refresh Lots of useful and interesting stuff on this page, along with several photos and a fair few references. A candidate for WP:GA in the near future, hopefully! Casper Gutman 00:08, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Contents 1 Number of Legal Deposit libraries in the UK 2 'Bod card' photo 2.1 Membership of the University: a Clarification 3 Declaration

[edit] Number of Legal Deposit libraries in the UK

There is a problem with the number of 'copyright' libraries in the UK. There are currently only five, since Trinity College Dublin is not in the UK. However, historically there were six at the time of the 1911 Copyright Act. Should the History section be changed to reflect this?

Update - I've edited the History section slightly but it may still need rewording.PurplePenny 00:01, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 'Bod card' photo

That isn't, strictly speaking, a Bod card. It is a University of Oxford card (a 'Blue Card' in library parlance); it does allow the holder to enter the Bodleian and its dependent libraries but is far more than just a library card. There is a Bodleian specific card (a 'Brown Card'), given to people who are not members of the university but are granted membership of the library. The two can be compared here: Radcliffe Science Library admissions guide . PurplePenny 00:03, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Membership of the University: a Clarification

I have a Brown Card. I am a member of the University. The Brown Card may be issued to persons who are not members of the University, but not everybody who has a Brown Card is a non-member. The above doesn't say, "given only to...", but most readers would probably make that inference, i.e. Blue Cards are for members; Brown Cards are for non-members. That is not the case.--Oxonian2006 22:39, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Declaration

I worked at Oxford for 3 years and I was a Bod reader but I was not required to make any declaration that I shall not steal or deface or burn books or whatever. Maybe that statement could be qualified a little?

I'd agree with that, I'm a current student, have been in the Bod several times and I've never had to promise not to burn books ... I guess they took that as a given!

I have altered this paragraph as recital of the declaration is certainly not compulsory anymore, although the ceremonies do still take place for those who wish to take them. The forms that one must complete in order to receive a Bod card contain the text of the declaration if I remember. Rje 15:00, 12 March 2007 (UTC)