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Oxford University Library Services offer a range of exhibitions and events throughout the year.

Current and forthcoming exhibitions

Main exhibitions

• NOW! Voltaire Exhibition
  28 October 2009 – 30 January 2010 (closed 24 Dec to 2 Jan)
  Mon-Fri 9.00-6.30, Sat 10.00-3.30
  Voltaire Room and Vestibule, Taylor Institution Library
  On display: art by Julie Smith. Works inspired by Voltaire and the Reading Room.
• NOW! 100 Years of Romance Linguistics in Oxford: Centenary Exhibition
  20 November 2009 – 20 January 2010 (closed 24 Dec to 2 Jan)
  Taylor Institution, St Giles’, Oxford
  Mon-Fri 9.00am-6.30pm, Sat 10.00am-3.30pm
  Oxford was the first, and remains the only, university in Britain to have an established Chair of the Romance Languages. This exhibition offers the chance to see some items from the Taylorian’s special collection of linguistic atlases. It focuses on a very small portion of this collection which provides invaluable first points of reference for anyone doing research in the field of comparative-historical Romance Linguistics. Exhibition curated by Professor Martin Maiden (Director of the Research Centre for Romance Linguistics www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/romance-linguistics/index.html) in collaboration with the Taylor Institution Library www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/taylor.
  
• FORTHCOMING! Crossing Borders: Hebrew Manuscripts as a Meeting-place of Cultures
  8 December 2009 – 3 May 2010
  Exhibition Room, Bodleian Library
  The Bodleian Library winter exhibition tells the story of how together Jews, Christians and Muslims have contributed to the development of the book. It illustrates the cultural exchange, the social interaction and the religious toleration between Jews and non-Jews in the Muslim and the Christian worlds during the late Middle Ages. The exhibition draws on the Bodleian Hebrew holdings, one of the largest and most important collections of Hebrew manuscripts in the world.
  

Temporary displays

• NOW! Japan-UK 150: Cultural legacies: Japanese treasures from the Bodleian Collections
  7 - 29 November 2009
  Proscholium, Bodleian Library
  To celebrate 150 years of friendship between the two countries, Japan–UK 150, a nationwide series of events, has been running from autumn 2008 until the end of 2009. As its contribution to the event, Bodleian has arranged a display of manuscripts and printed books to illustrate early UK’s encounters with Japan.
  
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  Saturday 9am – 4.30pm
  Sunday 11am – 5pm