Editing Bodleian Library (section)

==Sites and regulations==
The Bodleian Library occupies a group of five buildings near [[Broad Street, Oxford|Broad Street]]: the 15th-century [[Duke Humfrey's Library]], the 17th-century Schools Quadrangle, the 18th-century [[Clarendon Building]] and [[Radcliffe Camera]], and the 20th- and 21st-century [[Weston Library]]. Since the 19th century, underground stores have been constructed, while the principal off-site storage area is located at [[South Marston]] on the edge of [[Swindon]].

===Admission===
Before being granted access to the library, new readers are required to agree to a formal declaration. This declaration was traditionally an oral oath, but is now usually made by signing a letter to a similar effect. Ceremonies in which readers recite the declaration are still performed for those who wish to take them; these occur primarily at the start of the university's [[Michaelmas term]]. External readers (those not attached to the university) are still required to recite the declaration orally prior to admission. The Bodleian Admissions Office has amassed a large collection of translations of the declaration—covering over one hundred different languages as of spring 2017<ref name=Twitter>{{Cite tweet |user=bodleianlibs |author=Bodleian Libraries |number=852527378215694336 |date = 13 April 2017 |title=We have translated the Bodleian oath into more than one hundred languages. Readers make the pledge in their mother tongue.}}</ref>—allowing those who are not native English speakers to recite it in their first language. The English text of the declaration is as follows:
{{blockquote|I hereby undertake not to remove from the Library, nor to mark, deface, or injure in any way, any volume, document or other object belonging to it or in its custody; not to bring into the Library, or kindle therein, any fire or flame, and not to smoke in the Library; and I promise to obey all rules of the Library.}}

This is a translation of the traditional Latin oath (the original version of which did not forbid tobacco smoking, though libraries were then unheated because fires were so hazardous):
{{blockquote|{{lang|la|Do fidem me nullum librum vel instrumentum aliamve quam rem ad bibliothecam pertinentem, vel ibi custodiae causa depositam, aut e bibliotheca sublaturum esse, aut foedaturum deformaturum aliove quo modo laesurum; item neque ignem nec flammam in bibliothecam inlaturum vel in ea accensurum, neque fumo nicotiano aliove quovis ibi usurum; item promitto me omnes leges ad bibliothecam Bodleianam attinentes semper observaturum esse.}}}}

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[[File:The old Divinity Schools and Duke Humphrey’s Library at Oxford.jpg|upright=1.0|thumb|The library in 1566, drawn by John Bereblock and given to Queen Elizabeth I as part of a book when she first visited Oxford<ref>{{cite book|last=Clapinson|first=Mary|title=A Brief History of the Bodleian Library.|date=2015|publisher=University of Oxford|location=Oxford, London|isbn=978-1-85124-273-3|page=6|chapter=The Early Years}}</ref>]]
[[File:bodleiandoorway1.jpg|thumb|upright=1.0|Doorway to the Schola Moralis Philosophiae (School of Moral Philosophy) at the Bodleian Library (now the staff entrance in the Schools Quadrangle)]]
[[File:The Tower of the Five Orders Oxford.jpg|thumb|upright=1.0|The Tower of the Five Orders, as viewed from the entrance to the [[Divinity School, Oxford|Divinity School]]]]
[[File:Bodleian from Radcliffe Square.jpg|thumb|upright=1.0|The Library seen from [[Radcliffe Square]]]]
[[File:The Bodleian Library from the south entrance.jpg|thumb|upright=1.0|The courtyard of the Bodleian Library from the south entrance, looking to the north entrance]]
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