Old Road Campus Library

A glass wall and door, with the title Old Road Campus Library and the Bodleian Libraries and NHS logos

Opening hours

Monday – Friday: 8.30am – 5pm

May bank holidays

The Old Road Campus Library will be closed on Monday 4 May and Monday 25 May. 

Access

Access during library opening hours for University of Oxford staff and students, and Bodleian Health Care Library card holders.

About us

The Old Road Campus Library offers workspaces, Wi-Fi, IT and printing facilities and subject collections.

Contact us

General Health Care Libraries enquiries: hcl-enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Old Road Campus Library
hcl-oldroadcampuslibrary@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
01865 289410

Find us

Old Road Campus Library
Old Road Campus Research Building
Headington
Oxford
OX3 7DQ

Google Maps  

Directions

The Oxford University Hospitals website provides directions on how to get to the Churchill site adjacent to the Old Road Campus. Go to the green Research Building beside Roosevelt Drive. To reach the Old Road Campus Library, there is a revolving door and a separate accessible entrance. The library is on the right-hand side of the main lobby space (opposite café tables). 

Registration

You can register online or in person to join this library.

Using this library

Features

For disabled readers

The Old Road Campus Library opens out into the lobby space of the Old Road Campus Research Building. To reach the Old Road Campus Library, there is a revolving door and a separate accessible entrance. If you are a wheelchair user, you can use the intercom in front of the external doors there is an intercom to alert staff to open the door. The library is located on the right-hand side of the main lobby space (opposite café tables). The entire route is level access.  

The library has an outward facing (into the main lobby) reception desk that is lowered and has a portable hearing loop. All areas within the library are accessible.

The library can provide the following assistive equipment:

  • 10 coloured acetate sheets
  • 2 daylight reading lamps
  • 2 magnifiers

Please ask library staff if you wish to use any of this equipment. The library also has a height adjustable desk and an ergonomic chair.

Spaces

  • The main reading room has bookshelves and several desks.
  • There is a cafe located just outside the library in the main lobby of the building.