Libraries

I spend a great deal of time here surrounded by thousands of books. Oxford has about 80 different libraries of varying subjects and sizes, and in those libraries (as well as some vast underground storage stacks) there are over 12 million books. Unfortunately, the books I need right now are in the Gladstone Link, which is the basement of the main Bodleian Library and is just about the most modern, boring building I've been in here. Fortunately, I get to spend more time in buildings like the Radcliffe Camera and the Sackler, which are much cozier and old-looking than this place. Also fortunately, I'm down here reading about St. Basil the Great and St. Augustine the Blessed, so this essay is kind of an Orthodox History/Philosophy major's dream come true. Perhaps not entirely, but it's still a great essay to get to work on. And I will definitely miss having so many books available to me when I go back to Malone's quaint little library. Anyways, I really ought to get back to work. Cheers, friends.


The Radcliffe Camera (I'd take a picture inside, but it's strictly prohibited.)