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Bodleian Library considers lending books after 410 years

ex-tabulis:

thelifeguardlibrarian:

Consideration might still take some time…

Any article that includes the word scaremongering is good in my book.

I was taking a swig of soda when I read this and nearly sprayed it all over the place.  Now my jaw is hanging open and I’ve yet to close it.  I was there last year and I can’t imagine that they would ever actually lend books out.  However, it looks like there’s no done deal as of yet.  Still, what an interesting prospect!  I particularly love the pledge all users have to sign:

Users were forced to take an oath in Latin, but are now able to sign a pledge, which reads: “I hereby undertake not to remove from the Library, nor to mark, deface, or injure in any way, any volume, document or other object belonging to it or in its custody; not to bring into the Library, or kindle therein, any fire or flame, and not to smoke in the Library; and I promise to obey all rules of the Library.”