The

Bodleian Library

(officially Bodley's Library) in Oxford, England -- known informally to centuries of Oxford scholars as the Bod -- opened in 1602 with a collection of 2,000 books assembled by Thomas_Bodley (of Merton College) to replace the library that had been donated to the Divinity School by Humphrey,_Duke_of_Gloucester (and brother of Henry_V_of_England), but dispersed in the 16th century. In 1610 Bodley made an agreement with the Stationers' Company in London to put a copy of every book registered with them in the library. The Bodleian collection grew so fast that the first expansion of the building was required in 1610-1612, and another in 1634-1637. When John_Selden died in 1654, he left the Bodleian his large collection of books and manuscripts. In . Today, the Bodleian includes several off-site storage areas as well as nine other libraries in Oxford:
  • the Bodleian Japanese Library
  • the Bodleian Law Library
  • the Hooke Library
  • the Indian Institute Library
  • the Oriental Institute Library
  • the Philosophy Library
  • the Radcliffe Science Library
  • the Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House
  • the Vere Harmsworth Library Oxford students must swear not to borrow or set fire to any books when they join the Bod. Entrance to the Library, with the coats-of-arms of several Oxford colleges.

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