Peter Ward Jones, who has died aged 81, was a great exemplar of that endangered species, the scholar librarian.

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One titillating, new library collection has the whole world watching. The University of Oxford's Bodleian Library exhibit, Story of Phi: Restricted Books, displays a collection of "obscene" literature ...

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I’ve got a secret vice. I love to visit rare book rooms and leaf through the pages of 16th-century traveller’s tales or 15th-century editions of Petrarch with their brilliantly coloured pictures. Once ...

Ambitious plans to redevelop the Bodleian Library in Oxford will have to be put on hold if its new book depository does not get the go-ahead. Last week, Julian Blackwell, president of Blackwell's, ...

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LONDON (Reuters) - The Bodleian Library in Oxford, whose world famous collection of books, manuscripts and artifacts has up to now only been open to scholars, is about to open its doors to all comers ...

Created at the height of Victorian prudishness, the Bodleian Library’s Phi collection was designed to protect young minds from ‘immoral’ books. More than a century later, they’re going on display for ...