Contact details
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St Giles',
Oxford.
OX1 3NA
tay-enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Operations Manager: Frank Egerton
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About the Taylor Institution Library
The Taylor Institution is the University’s centre for the study of modern European languages and literatures, other than English.
Its Library contains the largest specialist research collections in the field in Britain and also a separate teaching collection for undergraduates and taught postgraduates.
It is primarily a lending library for members of the University.
Library staff are here to help, so please ask.
Opening hours
September–July
Monday–Friday: 9 am–7 pm
Saturday: 10 am–4 pm
August
Monday–Friday: 9 am–5 pm
Saturday: 10 am–4 pm
For details of closed periods and updates about opening times, please visit the Library website.
Library collections
- The Research Collection includes materials for the study of French, German, Italian, Modern Greek, Russian and other Slavonic languages, Spanish and Portuguese (including L
- Several smaller language fields such as Celtic, Yiddish, Catalan and Romanian are also represented.
- The Library houses a number of special collections, including, for example, the Enlightenment collection in the Voltaire Room.
- The Teaching Collection include books for undergraduate and taught postgraduate courses (including Film Studies), as well as some newspapers and magazines.