Weston Library
Opening hours
Information on this page is for readers and researchers using the Weston Library's reading rooms.
Opening hours for tours, exhibitions, events, café & shop
Reading rooms
Monday – Friday: 9am – 7pm
Saturday: 10am – 4pm
Reader spaces are locked from 7pm on weekdays and 4pm on Saturdays. Please leave the building with your possessions by those times.
Christmas opening hours
Monday 23 December: 9am – 5pm
The Weston Library reading rooms will be closed from Tuesday 24 December – Wednesday 1 January (inclusive).
Headley Tearoom (staff and readers)
Monday – Friday: 10am – 4pm
Admissions Office
About the library
The Weston Library is home to the Bodleian Libraries’ special collections. It is a working library and research centre, and a public event and exhibition space.
The library has three reading rooms and a number of seminar rooms and other study spaces. It is home to:
- Centre for Digital Scholarship
- Visiting Scholars Centre (Centre for the Study of the Book).
- Bodleian Libraries Admissions Office
From Monday 4 November entry and exit bag searches will be carried out on readers accessing the reading rooms.
Find us
Weston Library
Broad Street
Oxford
OX1 3BG
In this section
What's on highlights
See our full programme of exhibitions, events and tours open to all at the Weston Library.
Related links
- Special collections at the Bodleian Libraries
Our manuscripts and archives, rare books, printed ephemera, maps, music and digitized collections - Special collections finding aids
Catalogues and finding aids to discover our collections - Imaging Services
The primary provider of digital images, photographic prints and paper prints from microfilm within the Bodleian Libraries