Using the Weston Library

• View a map of this library (PDF).
• The Admissions Office is located on Level G (ground floor).
• Our security team carry out entry and exit searches on all items brought through the security barriers at the Parks Road entrance to the Weston Library. Please make this possible by opening your clear bag for our security team. Bags, laptop cases and other prohibited items should be left in the lockers.
• The main set of lockers is on Level G. Lockers require a £1 coin to operate, which will be returned to you when you open the locker. There is a change machine in the locker room.
• Male toilets are on Level G and Level 5. Female toilets are on Level 1 and Level 5. Unisex accessible toilets are on Level G, Level 1, and Level 5.
• Power sockets are provided at all reader seats and study carrels.  
• Only modern printed books can be taken to study carrels. Please ask library staff if you have questions on the use of carrels.

Reading rooms

• The Weston Library has three main reading rooms. Special collections material is consulted in one of these reading rooms, depending on the type of material.
• Find out more about how to access special collections material, ordering material to a reading room, and using Weston Library reading rooms.

The Bodleian Libraries Regulations and Rules of Conduct apply in this library. 

Readers must also observe local rules for using the Weston Library reading rooms and for using special collections material.

All material in the Weston Library is for reference use only. Under no circumstances may you take collection material out of the building.