Good morning

Really insightful series of discussions with colleagues from across the cultural sector at an ALVA event this evening so superbly curated by the amazing Bernard Donoghue thank you Bernard!

Special Event:
Join us for live readings from correspondence between Julia Margaret Cameron and Lord Alfred Tennyson, William Thackeray, GF Watts, Sir John Herschel and Anne Thackeray Ritchie.
📅 Monday 13 May 2024
🕕 6 – 7.15pm
📍 Weston Library
visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/colin-fo…

Greatly looking forward to the 2024 Lyell Lectures tomorrow (Bodleian Libraries) being given by Prof Stephen Oakley (@CamClassics Emmanuel College, Cambridge) on 'Copying the Classics (and Fathers): explorations in the transmission of Latin texts' visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/apr24/th…

Pleased to be The Grid ⁦Observer New Review⁩ today, featuring images from a magnificent new addition to our photo collections ⁦Bodleian Libraries⁩ from the Wilson Center, with thousands of albums & photobooks (all on our Archives & Manuscripts catalogue) available for research!

This is going to be amazing! #OxfordreadsKafka #OxfordKafka24

Port Meadow now

Oxford doesn’t look too shabby today …

So enjoyed being part of the panel on legal deposit last night ⁦Stationers' Hall⁩ so capably organised by ⁦Carol Tullo OBE⁩ together with my colleagues ⁦Jessica Gardner⁩ ⁦Ian Gadd⁩ and Xerxes Mazda (⁦British Library⁩). Nice archive and library display too!

For more details of our Kafka season University of Oxford Bodleian Libraries German at Oxford Oxford Kafka please look at the full list of events: staff.web.ox.ac.uk/article/oxford… #OxfordreadsKafka

OXFORD READS KAFKA! 📖🎉
 
As part of the university-wide celebration of the life & work of #FranzKafka at Oxford, all University of Oxford students are gifted with a special limited edition of the #Metamorphosis by the Bodleian Libraries. 📚
 
🔗: ox.ac.uk/news/2024-03-0…
 
#OxfordReadsKafka

Privileged to be at this wonderful symposium this morning. Huge thanks to ⁦William Whyte⁩ for facilitating this in the wonderful new library ⁦St John's College⁩

Deeply saddened to learn of the death of the great photographer Paddy Summerfield. His was a unique vision, both introspective & spiritual, but profoundly connected to the place he lived - Oxford. Honoured to have his archive ⁦Bodleian Libraries⁩ theguardian.com/artanddesign/g…

About to give this for ⁦The American Trust for the British Library⁩ at ⁦The Grolier Club⁩

A major event in May will be the last of Garry Fabian Miller’s moving & powerful lectures ⁦⁦Bodleian Libraries⁩ : called The Light Gatherers. Book early (for free) to avoid disappointment for: ‘A place of resolution’. 21 May 5pm, Weston Library. visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/garry-fa…

En route to give the 2024 Bernard H. Breslauer Lecture for ⁦The American Trust for the British Library⁩, my topic: ‘What is a library?’, looking at the place of a library in the age of book bans, AI, cyberattacks and the defunding of public libraries. atbl.us/the-bernard-h-…

Blue skies on Broad Street at last! View from my office window ⁦Bodleian Libraries⁩

We Bodleian Libraries are so much looking forward to being Firsts London!

Couldn't agree more with Stephen Bush here (& have written on this topic since 2020 in @ft, FT Weekend & Red Box) what he misses is that the 1958 Public Records Act (being format neutral) already requires their retention! ft.com/content/1bf2c2…

Excitement building around #OxfordKafka24 with this piece in Guardian culture highlighting ‘Kafka: Making of an Icon’ our major new exhibition Bodleian Libraries German at Oxford. theguardian.com/books/2024/mar…