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The Bodleian Library (, ), the main research library of the University of Oxford, is one of the oldest libraries in Europe. With over 12 million items,〔 it is the second biggest library in Britain after the British Library. Under the ''Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003'' it is one of six legal deposit libraries for works published in the United Kingdom〔Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Agency for the Legal Deposit Libraries )〕 and under Irish Law it is entitled to request a copy of each book published in the Republic of Ireland.〔S198(5) Copyright and Related Rights Act 2000〕 Known to Oxford scholars as "Bodley" or "the Bod", it operates principally as a reference library and, in general, documents may not be removed from the reading rooms. In 2000, a number of libraries within the University of Oxford were brought together for administrative purposes under the aegis of what was initially known as Oxford University Library Services (OULS), and since 2010 as the Bodleian Libraries, of which the Bodleian Library is the largest component. All colleges of the University of Oxford have their own libraries, which in a number of cases were established well before the foundation of the Bodleian, and all of which remain entirely independent of the Bodleian. They do, however, participate in OLIS (Oxford Libraries Information System), the Bodleian Libraries' online union catalogue. Much of the library's archives were digitized and put online for public access in 2015.〔Jonathan Jones, (Oxford’s online Bodleian archive: illumination for all ), The Guardian, 8 August 2015.〕 In November 2015 its collections topped 12 million items with the acquisition of Shelley's "POETICAL ESSAY on the EXISTING STATE OF THINGS". Thought lost from shortly after its publication in 1811 until a copy was rediscovered in a private collection in 2006, the Bodleian has digitised the 20-page pamphlet for online access and The controversial poem and accompanying essay are believed to have contributed to the poet's expulsion from Oxford University and news reports about its acquisition quotes Michael Rossington, a professor of Romantic literature at the Newcastle University, as saying "This substantial poem has been known about for years, but as far as we know it hasn’t been read by any Shelley biographers or scholars since it was composed, and people are intrigued to find out exactly what it’s about". ==Sites and regulations== The Bodleian Library occupies a group of five buildings near Broad Street: the 15th-century Duke Humfrey's Library, the 17th-century Schools Quadrangle, the 18th-century Clarendon Building and Radcliffe Camera, and the 1930s New Bodleian (now known as the Weston Library). Since the 19th century a number of underground stores have been built below parts of these. Today, the Bodleian also includes several off-site storage areas. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bodleian Library」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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