During the first week in the British Studies program we made a visit to Oxford England to visit some of the university libraries. One of them was the Christ Church Library. Christ Church is one of 38 constituent colleges a part of the University of Oxford. They are one of the most finically backed, and have a large number of attending students at around 600-700. What I found really impressive was just being able to walk around campus. The buildings date back to the 16th century and are beautiful. In fact, some of the scenes from the Harry Potters where filmed here.
The first place we visited on the tour was the 'old' library, where they house all their special collection of books dating back to medieval times. This part of the tour I found really interesting because we got to see some impressive items from their collection. For instance, the librarian showed us a pocket book of Psalms that was dated to be from around 1200 A.D. While another item was actually Queen Victoria's own personal Bible! The Bible was so fragile that he could not take is out of the box, instead he just gently opened the book.
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| Pictured here is the librarian holding the book of Psalms. |
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| Here the librarian is showing us Queen Victoria's Bible. |
On the second part of the tour we visited the 'new' library, which contained their modern lending library and early printed books. The library is located on the first and second floor of the building, which we quietly walked through since students were studying. Then we ended up in the librarians office, which we later found out that it used to be the Lewis Carrols office! Overall, I really enjoyed my visit to the Christ Church Library!
Source:
https://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/library
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