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Oxford Expands Library With 153 Miles of Shelves

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Oxford University’s Bodleian Library has purchased a huge £26m warehouse to give a proper home to over 6 million books and 1.2 million maps. The Library has been housing the collection in a salt mine, and plans on transferring the manuscripts over the next year. “The BSF will prove a long-awaited solution to the space problem that has long challenged the Bodleian,” said its head librarian Dr Sarah Thomas. “We have been running out of space since the 1970s and the situation has become increasingly desperate in the last few years.” The 153 miles of new shelf space will only be enough for the next 20 years however because of the library’s historic entitlement to a copy of every volume published in the UK.

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