Christ Church Library & Archives

Hilary 2011
Library Newsletter
Wed 23rd November 2011

Michaelmas 2010
Library Newsletter
Mon 6th June 2011

Trinity 2010
Library Newsletter
Thu 29th July 2010

The spacious College Library is an important resource centre, primarily intended to provide undergraduate readers with the books they need for their studies. There is also a separate Law Library with a valuable and increasing collection of legal works. Christ Church Library contains what is probably the largest and richest collection of early printed books and manuscripts in Oxford after the Bodleian Library. Its holdings are of international importance and are particularly rich in music, theology, classics, travel books, numismatics, early science, medicine and Hebrew studies.

Christ Church Library Talks

Tuesday, 21 February 2012
The Upper Library at Christ Church, at 5.15 p.m.

VICTORIA STEVENS (Oxford Conservation Consortium)
Conservation issues, conservation solutions: Illustrated through a description of the treatment of Remmelinus' Catoptrum Microcosmicum

This is the first anatomical atlas to use dozens of engravings superimposed as a series of opening flaps as method of illustration. It is also the first conservation project undertaken by the Oxford Conservation Consortium following Christ Church joining in October 2010. The talk accompanies the new exhibition open in the Upper Library.

New Exhibition

Time Management - Conservation of Collections
Highliting the work completed on Johannes Remmelinus' Catoptrum Microcosmicum (1619)

This new exhibition open in collaboration with the Oxford Conservation Consortium in the Upper Library at Christ Church presents a selection of case studies. It takes into account the nature and size of library and archive materials (paper, skin based materials, wood, metal including metal components in ink and pigments, textiles and adhesives). It points to conservation problems and past solutions. It dwells extensively with the recent restoration of Remmelinus' Catoptrum Microcosmicum (1619) and it looks into the future, signalling forthcoming projects. The exhibition curated by Victoria Stevens (Oxford Conservation Consortium) and Dr Cristina Neagu (Christ Church) will be open between 6 February to 27 April 2012. Visiting hours Monday-Friday: 9.00 am - 1.00 pm; 2.00 pm - 5.00 pm (provided there is a member of staff available in the Upper Library).

For details, see Library Exhibitions.

Note

Starting with 26 September 2011, the modern collections of Christ Church Library are no longer on Heritage. SOLO is now  the online catalogue for both the modern and the early printed books .You can access it from anywhere by going to the website at http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk.