Balliol College Library

08/09/2023

weekend is upon us and we'll be opening our new exhibition, 'Messing about with manuscripts', which marks the imminent 60th anniversary of the publication of R.A.B. Mynors’ celebrated catalogue of Balliol’s manuscripts. Drop by Balliol Historic Collections Centre at St Cross Church, Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 from 11.00am-4.00pm to see some stunning medieval books and insights into scholarly research on them in the 20th century.

05/07/2023

Happy Summer! 💐☀️
For our current display we have a selection of novels, poetry, films and non-fiction for you to borrow and enjoy! You can find ground-breaking classics, recent favourites, and cinematic adaptations in the Reading Room. Please feel free to take a look at the display and borrow a book or two! 📚

23/06/2023

Here’s our summer reading display! We’ve bought lots of new books, including novels, poetry and non-fiction for you to take home for vacation, so feel free to have a look and borrow anything that looks interesting. 🌞

12/06/2023

Welcome to 8th week! For those of you still hard at work, remember to take a break - we've got another puzzle and an ongoing community game of chess for you to join in. 🧩♟For something to take home, we've got prize books on the spinner and a display of films (and the books they were adapted from) inspired by the Student Film Journal. 📚🎬Vacation loans start today, so anything loaned from today is yours to keep all summer! ⛱☀️

08/03/2023

Happy International Women’s Day! We’ve got a display up in the Reading Room for Women’s History Month, following the theme ‘Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories’. We’ve got no shortage of amazing storytellers in the library, but we’ve put together a small selection to mark the month. Please take a look and feel free to borrow!

06/03/2023

VACATION LOANS
Welcome to eighth week! Remember that all term time loans are due on Wednesday (8th) and vacation loans start today! Anything you borrow this week will be due back on the first Monday of Trinity term (24th April). As always, let us know if you have any questions or problems.

13/02/2023

Our current exhibition is open again today from 11.00am - 4.00pm. Please do drop by to join us and learn about the history of food through the College’s special collections and archives!

We've had a busy start to term finishing up our new exhibition, 'A Taste of Balliol: food and dining in the historic collections of Balliol College', which opens today!

Join us at St Cross Church from 11.00am - 4.00pm today, to see a 19th century recipe for a ham sandwich (more involved than you might think), photos of kitchen staff in former times, plans of state of the art kitchen facilities from the 1860s, a mechanical lemon peeler and much more.

08/02/2023

Happy LGBT+ History Month! We’re marking the month with a display in the Reading Room. This year’s curricular theme is ‘Behind the lens’, celebrating LGBT+ people’s contributions to cinema, so we’ve highlighted some great films, from ground-breaking classics to recent favourites. We’ve also got a selection of books including novels, poetry, plays and non-fiction for you to borrow and enjoy!

You can also check out our BOB playlist to stream some of the films featured in the display, and lots of others! Just follow the link and login with your student email for access: https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ondemand/playlists/302818

27/01/2023

We've had a busy start to term finishing up our new exhibition, 'A Taste of Balliol: food and dining in the historic collections of Balliol College', which opens today!

Join us at St Cross Church from 11.00am - 4.00pm today, to see a 19th century recipe for a ham sandwich (more involved than you might think), photos of kitchen staff in former times, plans of state of the art kitchen facilities from the 1860s, a mechanical lemon peeler and much more.

03/12/2022

Today is the final opening of our exhibition , 'A Load of Old Babel'. Find us at St Cross Church (next to Holywell Manor) until 4pm today for your last chance to see it!

Our current exhibition is open today in the Historic Collections Centre at St Cross Church between 11am and 4pm. 'A Load of Old Babel' examines the variety of languages in our historic collections, so come and see medieval manuscripts in Latin, scrolls in Hebrew, scriptures on palm-leaf in Pali, artificial alphabets, and dictionaries of cant.

02/12/2022

It's the last day of term! We hope you have a restful break over the vacation. To help, we've put out a display of novels, poetry, DVDs, and well-being materials (tiny Christmas crackers too) for you to take home and enjoy.

We've also put out the Secret Santa books next to the display, so if you requested a surprise book you'll find it waiting for you in the Reading Room!

28/11/2022

VACATION LOANS
A reminder that all term time loans are due on Wednesday and vacation loans start today! Anything you borrow this week will be due back in the first week of Hilary term.