It is wonderful to see Queen's College Library MS 357 available on Digital Bodleian! Look at that stunning gold leaf ✨You can view the manuscript here: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/b47088…

It was great to welcome our new freshers at Hall registration yesterday! We hope you're settling in at Queen's, and we look forward to seeing everyone again on Wednesday morning for library inductions 👋🏻

The Upper Library will be closing at 6.15pm this evening for an event. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Library inductions are over, but if you need help with using the library or finding something remember you can find the team in the Library Office (9-7 Mon-Fri, 10-3 Sat-Sun) or contact us via email [email protected]. We're here to help! Happy library-ing 📚

Good morning, there is a pigeon on our skylight. That is all.

We keep all sorts of helpful things at the enquiry desk in the New Library including, hopefully, the librarians. Feel free to take leaflets or a map and borrow pens and pencils if you need them - please don't take our snazzy enamel cups though, we're rather pleased with them.

In response to student feedback in the library survey last year, we've updated the bulbs in the Upper Library lamps so they give brighter, clearer light for you to work by. As it gets dark ever earlier, be sure to switch on the desk lamps to save your eyes! 💡

We're thinking of swapping out our library eagle for something more realistic - thoughts? #pigeon

boooOOOOOks 👻 It's Hallowe'en soon and we've got you covered if you're in the mood for a ghostly tale! All books on display can be borrowed as usual.

If you saw some of the librarians poking around Holywell Cemetery recently it's because we were looking for the grave of our resident library ghost. No, we won't elaborate further.

It's pretty up here, but it can get ❄️COLD❄️ Keep warm with the box of blankets we have provided in the Upper Library while we await maintenance for the heating system. Please leave the blankets upstairs when you are finished using them.

Our Show & Tells for this academic year got off to a great start with a well-attended session looking at Isaac Newton's work. Students and staff got a look at different approaches to printing mathematical illustrations, and a chance to see Newton's own handwriting!

Please avoid entering or exiting through the Library doors between 10:55 - 11:00, or do so as quietly as possible, as there will be a remembrance service nearby.

It's time to vote in this term's General Collection Election 📚 Vote on which books you'd like us to add for our leisure reading collection, and we'll have them ready to borrow for the Christmas vac! Cast your votes here: forms.office.com/e/ccmkT3gSgH

New blog post from the library ✍🏻 'From the author' : G. A. Simcox and the romantic poets by our Library Assistant Felix Taylor is now live. A poet! A mysterious disappearance! An extensive library! read all about it: tinyurl.com/GASimcox

Alan Gardiner in 1949 on the Egyptological Peet library Queen's College Library : 'ours is a subject in which it is necessary at every moment to look up references'. Still very true!