- Indian Institute Library
The Indian Institute Library is a dependent library of the Bodleian and part of the
University of Oxford inOxford ,England . Opened in1886 , the library specialises in the history and culture ofSouth Asia ,Tibet and theHimalayas . [Bodleian Library: Department of Oriental Collections: 'Indian Institute Library', http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/oriental/iil.htm, accessed 2007-02-14.] TheIndian Institute and its library were originally based in the building now occupied by the History Faculty, on the corner of Holywell andCatte Street . Traces of the building's original function are still visible, including the gildedweathervane which depicts an elephant with a howdah.In
1968 , the library was relocated to a newly constructed 'penthouse' on the roof of the New Bodleian building. The move was not without controversy, since the original building had been constructed with the express intention of providing a permanent home to the institute. [Oxford University History Faculty, 'History of the faculty building', http://163.1.10.19/resources/building.htm, accessed 2007-02-14.]The library remains on the top floor of the Bodleian, which results in the strange situation of a lending library being based within a reference library. The library's collection is of international importance and includes over 100,000 volumes. [University of Oxford: South Asian Studies, http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/postgraduate/caz/sout.shtml, accessed 2007-02-14.] Around 60% of these are catalogued on
OLIS , the Oxford University library catalogue. [Oxford University Library Services: Library Guide, 'Indian Institute Library', http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk/libraries/guides/IND.html, accessed 2007-02-14.] Anyone wishing to use the library must either be a student at theUniversity of Oxford , or obtain a reader's card from theBodleian Library .See also
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