Bodleian Library

The Bodleian Library is the main research library of the University of Oxford, founded in 1602 by Sir Thomas Bodley. It is one of the oldest libraries in Europe with over 13 million printed items, making it the second-largest library in Britain after the British Library. The library operates as a reference library, with documents not removed from the reading rooms, and is part of the Bodleian Libraries, which also includes other university libraries. The Bodleian Library has a group of five buildings near Broad Street, with the oldest being the 15th-century Duke Humfrey's Library. Readers are required to agree to a formal declaration, which is now usually signed, and has been translated into over one hundred different languages.learn more on wikipedia