THE BODLEIAN-LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY-OF-OXFORD

One of the world's great academic libraries, the Bodleian is both a unique institution (in its contents and arrangement) and one familiar with the problems affecting all modern academic libraries. It finds itself blessed by its past, being rich in collections of rare books, illuminated manuscripts, and personal papers. Yet it is burdened by this tradition when forced to remain a 100 percent retention library in a rapidly expanding information society or a nonlending facility as information collectors grow more interdependent. Like all libraries, the Bodleian is coming to grips with the twenty-first century.