It offers a one-stop search and delivery solution for quickly accessing Oxford’s main library information resources regardless of type, format or location. SOLO (Search Oxford Libraries Online) is the main search engine for library collections across Oxford, providing access to information in over 100 Oxford libraries including circa eight million bibliographic records and more than 13 million item records. Further information on all University libraries can be found using the ' Libraries A-Z' or ‘ Subjects A-Z’ indexes. The University also houses many departmental and museum libraries, such as the Museum of the History of Science Library and the Oxford University Museum of Natural History Library. See more information on College libraries. College librariesĮvery College has its own library, often consisting of a modern, working library and older collections. It is the second largest in the UK after the British Library. Is the University’s main research library and a legal deposit library. For more information, visit Have you ever wondered what it's like to study in the Bodleian? Tune in and listen to the sounds of Oxford's most famous libraries. Members of the public can explore the collections via the Bodleian’s online image portal at .ac.uk or by visiting the exhibition galleries in the Bodleian’s Weston Library. Together, the Libraries hold more than 12 million printed items, over 80,000 e-journals and outstanding special collections including rare books and manuscripts, classical papyri, maps, music, art and printed ephemera. It includes the principal University library – the Bodleian Library – which has been a legal deposit library for 400 years as well as 30 libraries across Oxford including major research libraries and faculty, department and institute libraries. The Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford is the largest university library system in the United Kingdom.