Our Buildings

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Hartland House

Hartland House houses our collections in the Arts and Humanities, as well as Law.

Designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and built in modules, it was the first building of the Society for Home-Students, as St. Anne's was then known. The first module was completed and opened in 1937 with the Library taking up one wing of the first floor. Two further modules were completed in 1952 and 1973, and the Library has since expanded to the ground floor and first floor corridor.

Foyer
Ground Floor

Foyer

    • ♦  Staff desk with Self-Issue Machine and Click & Collect shelf
    • ♦  Returns point for books from Hartland House
    • ♦  Multifunction printer
    • ♦  2 Library PCs/individual study desks
    • ♦  Shared four-seater study desk
    • ♦  Female & Male toilets
    • ♦  Accessible Toilet down the corridor outside the Library

This space is also used for seasonal events and activities such as the Book Sale, Relaxation Station (jigsaws, origami, Lego, colouring books) and exhibitions

Collections in this room: St. Anne's Authors; Welfare Collection; Reference; Celtic Literature; Russian Literature; New Books Display; Themed displays and exhibitions

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Ground Floor

New Reading Room

    • ♦  5 shared four-seater study desks
    • ♦  Individual study desk at West window
    • ♦  Height-adjustable desk for standing or sitting
    • ♦  Emergency Exit to front of College via the West Door

Collections in this room: Music; Film Studies; DVDs; Translations; Travel & Exploration

Other Named Collections: Jenkins Collection (Literature, Theology, History); Marjorie Reeves Bequest (Medieval Church, History); Rosemary Poutney Bequest (Samuel Beckett)

Landing
First Floor

Landing

    • ♦  Two-seater study desk
    • ♦  Access to Corridor, Geldart Room, Librarian's Office, Main Library

Collections on the landing: Literary Theory; American Literature (continued towards Main Library)

Corridor
First Floor

Corridor

    • ♦  3 individual study desks by windows
    • ♦  Access to the Modern Languages & Classics Rooms
    • ♦  Emergency Exit to East staircase

Collections on this corridor: Literature in Chinese, Japanese, African languages, German, French (continued in Modern Languages 1 &2); Art & Art History

Modern Languages 1
First Floor

Modern Languages 1

    • ♦  2 shared two-seater study desks
    • ♦  Collections in this room: Literature in French (continued in Modern Languages 2)

Modern Languages 2
First Floor

Modern Languages 2

    • ♦  Large shared four-seater study desk
    • ♦  2 shared two-seater study desks by window

Collections in this room: Literature in French (continued from Modern Languages 1), Italian, Spanish, Portuguese

Classics Room
First Floor

Classics Room

    • ♦  2 two-seater study desks
    • ♦  2 individual study desks by window

Collections in this room: Literature in Ancient Greek, Latin; Ancient History; Archaeology

Geldart Room
First Floor

Geldart Room

    • ♦  Large shared study desk with space for 8 readers
    • ♦  Views onto the quad, but no access allowed to the balcony
Collections in this room: Law

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First Floor

Main Library

    • ♦  6 shared four-seater study desks with in-built power and task lighting
    • ♦  Exhibition display case
    • ♦  Access to the North Room

Collections in this room: English Literature (continued in the North Room); History of Great Britain & Ireland

North Room
First Floor

North Room

    • ♦  Split-level room with bookshelves
    • ♦  Upper level has grilled flooring and is accessed via a narrow spiral staircase

Collections on the lower level: English Literature (continued from Main Library); General History & Historiography; History of Europe, Asia, Africa, Americas, Pacific

Collections on the upper level: Periodicals and Series (eg. Early English Texts Society, Camden Miscellany)

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Tim Gardam Building

The Tim Gardam Building holds our collections in the sciences, social sciences.

Also known as the Library & Academic Centre, it was completed in 2016 and opened to readers in early 2017. It includes library collections and study spaces, as well as seminar rooms and research offices.

TGB Foyer
Ground Floor

Foyer

    • ♦  Staff desk with Self-Issue Machine
    • ♦  Click & Collect trolley
    • ♦  Returns box for books from the Tim Gardam Building
    • ♦  Exhibition display case

Collections in this room: New Books Display; themed book displays

TGB PCs
Ground Floor

Reading Room

    • ♦  8 individual sofa chairs with in-built sockets and laptop tables
    • ♦  Height-adjustable desk for standing or sitting
    • ♦  10 Library PCs
    • ♦  Additional study space at each PC desk
    • ♦  Multifunction printer
    • ♦  Access to Library Office (please knock)

Collections in this room: Linguistics (continued from Lower Ground Floor); History of Science; Maths; Computer Science; Engineering (continued on First Floor)

TGB Rolling Stacks
Lower Ground Floor

Reading Room & Rolling Stack

    • ♦  20 individual study carrels
    • ♦  Rolling Stack, operated by turning wheeled handle
    • ♦  Access to Sunken Garden, where food & drink is allowed
    • ♦  Toilets, water fountain outside the reading room on this floor

Collection in this room: Bibliography; Philosophy; Theology; Sociology; Economics; Politics; Criminology; Education; Linguistics (continued on Ground Floor)

Periodicals and Oversize books in the sciences and social sciences; Stack (less-used) books in all subjects

Outreach Room
First Floor

Outreach Room

    • ♦  Large room with a variety of seating, which is often booked for outreach activities and other events
    • ♦  Breakout area and informal study space when not in use
    • ♦  Food & drink, conversation/group study allowed
    • ♦  Access to the Rooftop Garden

TGB First Floor desks
First Floor

Reading Room

    • ♦  12 individual study carrels
    • ♦  3 bookable group study rooms, which can be used on a first-come, first-served basis when not already booked
    • ♦  Group Study 1 & 2: Four-seater tables
    • ♦  Group Study 3: 8-seater table with wall-mounted screen and HDMI cable for presentations

Collections in this room: Engineering (continued from ground floor); Physics; Chemistry; Geography; Earth Sciences; Biology; Biochemistry; Zoology; Medicine; Technology

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Second Floor

Academic Centre

    • ♦  Tutorial and seminar rooms (SR10, RO2)
    • ♦  Humanities Division during Term (SR11)
    • ♦  Junior Research Fellows (RO1)
    • ♦  Centre for Personalised Medicine (RO3)
    • ♦  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation (RO3)
    • ♦  Water cooler