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New Bodleian Library Refurbishment
9 March 2010
‘A storehouse of knowledge … an engine for scholarship:
Modernising the Bodleian Library’
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Client Brief Key Objectives:
- Safeguarding the collections
- Modernising research facilities
- Promoting the collections for wider understanding
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Objectives: Safeguarding the collections
Standards:
Environmental control
Fire suppression
Common services
Oxford has ‘skipped a generation’
Space:
Growth
Good management
Complete renewal of storage facilities
Meet British Standards
Satisfy Government
Conservation Centre
High-level care for the special collections
Leading institution for research into science of preservation.
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Objectives: Modernising research facilities
Changing modes of scholarshipEvidence-based learningGraduate studiesResearch skillsMasterclassesDigital scholarship
Visiting scholars and research culture
Dissemination of researchExhibitionsDigital resources
New reading roomsOperational efficiency
Facilities for digitally-based scholarshipDigital Media Centre
Facilities for teachingMasterclasses
Visiting Scholars CentreResearch culture
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Objectives: Promoting the collections for wider understanding
New Bodleian a ‘shy’ building
Great collections cannot be shared by public
Contribution of the University to science, learning and culture
New audiences
Exhibitions
50, 000 visitors per exhibition
‘Permanent’ treasures
Loans
Research outputs
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• LIBRARY STRATEGY
New Bodleian and Giles Gilbert-Scott
The New Bodleian was designed for a different world:
The University of Oxford was smaller and less research-intensive
Researchers operated in different ways
The general public had a different view of ‘the heritage’.
Giles Gilbert-Scott
Broad Street – as existing
Perception – Public identity
What do we want the New Bodleian to say?
Seat of learning & academia
Sought after destination for academics
Reservoir of accumulated knowledge
Public not excluded
Gravitas versus accessibility
Existing View from Sheldonian
New Bodleian – Concept
Ground Floor Public Areas – Perspective Section
Site Plan
Forming the entrance – Proposed Perspective View from Broad Street - West
Forming the entrance – South Façade Proposed
Forming the entrance – Proposed Steps and South Colonnade
Forming the entrance – Proposed Steps and South Colonnade
Forming the entrance – Proposed Perspective View from Broad Street - East
Ground Floor Public Areas – Perspective View of Proposed Entrance Hall
Ground Floor Public Areas – Perspective View of Proposed Exhibition Gallery
Ground Floor Public Areas – Perspective View of Proposed Seminar / Auditorium
Level H – Ground Floor Plan - Reader Access Areas
Reader Access Areas - Original Photos of Existing East Entrance, Corridor and Vestibule
Reader Access Areas – Proposed East Corridor
Reader Access Areas – Proposed East Corridor
Reader Access Areas – Perspective View of Refurbished East Corridor
Reader Access Areas – Perspective View of Refurbished Parks Road Lobby
Level F – First Floor Plan - Reader Access Areas – General Enquiries
Reader Access Areas – Perspective View of Proposed General Enquiries
Reader Access Areas – Perspective View of Proposed General Enquiries
Reader Access Areas - Original Photos of First Floor Catalogue Room and Reading room
Reader Access Areas - Original Photo of First Floor Catalogue Room
Reader Access Areas - Proposed Refurbished Reading Rooms 1 & 2
Reader Access Areas - Existing Photo of former Catalogue Room
Reader Access Areas – Proposed Perspective View of Refurbished Reading Room 1
Preservation and refurbishment of Reading Room
Study Centre - Proposed Perspective View from East
Study Centre - Proposed Perspective View from West
Reader Access Areas – Reading room 3 – Perspective view
Section – G-G - Basement Bookstack Areas
Level L - Basement -3 Plan
Level K - Basement -2 Plan
Level J - Basement -1 Plan
‘An ark to save learning from the deluge’ (Francis Bacon: 1620)
At a ‘decisive moment’ in the University’s history:
Major project to renew Library facilities
New Bodleian project at the heart of these plans: the most important library development in Oxford for 400 years
New Bodleian will result in the transformation of the infrastructure for scholarship