_Rules of the Library._
The Library is open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. from Lady-Day to Michaelmas,
and from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. from Michaelmas to Lady-Day. It is closed from
Christmas Eve to the Feast of the Circumcision, both inclusive; on the
Epiphany; on Good Friday, Easter Eve, and through the whole of Easter
week; on Ascension Day; on Whit-Monday and Whit-Tuesday; on the day of
the University Commemoration; for the first week in October (Oct. 1-7),
for purposes of dusting and cleaning; and on Nov. 7th and 8th (or Nov.
6-7th, should the 8th fall on a Sunday) for the Visitation.
On other festival days, being days for which services are appointed in
the Prayer-Book, and on which Sermons are, consequently, preached before
the University, as well as on the days of Latin Litany and Sermon (viz.
the first day of each Term), the Library is opened when the Sermon is
over, _i.e._ ordinarily at 11 o'clock.
All graduate members of the University have the right to use the
Library. Undergraduates are admitted upon bringing letters of
recommendation from their Tutors. Strangers are admitted upon being
introduced by a Master of Arts or higher graduate, or upon producing
sufficient letters of introduction; but every facility is afforded to
strangers who make personal application to the Librarian for permission
to make researches for any definite and special purpose.
The Library is under the control of a Board of Curators, consisting of
the Vice-Chancellor, the two Proctors, the five Regius Professors of
Divinity, Civil Law, Medicine, Hebrew, and Greek, and five Members of
Congregation, elected by that House for ten years.
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The _Camera Radcliviana_, formerly the Radcliffe Library, is open all
the year round from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.; excepting that it is closed
during the same periods at which the old Library is closed. In it are to
be found most of the publications of the last sixteen years, with the
most recent magazines; and books from the general collection may be
carried over for use there, upon proper application.
The Statutes of the Library are printed in the general _Corpus
Statutorum Universitatis_.