Library — Group Study Room

New College students may book the Group Study Room for a duration of 30 minutes at a time, with the first slot commencing at 9.00 am and the last at 11.30 pm, all seven days a week.

Book the Library Group Study Room for the date and the time you require.

The Group Study Room is a shared resource for New College students who need to study together.  Please limit any bookings you make to a maximum of four hours per day and 12 hours per week (in total), to enable equitable use of this in-demand space.  Bookings placed for longer than four hours per day may be rescinded by library staff.

If the New College Library Group Study Room is already booked when you are wanting it, remember that the Bodleian Libraries also provide a range of group study rooms which are bookable:

Group Study Rooms across the Bodleian Libraries

The New College Library Group Study Room contains some general interest book collections:

• Biography — shelfmarks beginning BIO/
• Travel Guides — shelfmarks beginning TG/
• Very Short Introductions — shelfmarks beginning VSI/

The Room holds key reference works useful for Music and History students and researchers, and all Library readers:

• The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15th edn. — REF/BRI (also online)
• The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians — REF/GRO (Oxford Music Online is the gateway to Grove Music Online)
• The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments — REF/GRO
• The New Grove Dictionary of Opera — REF/GRO
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography — REF/DNB (also online)

It also contains lesser-used (secondary sequence) Classics books too — shelfmarks beginning OO

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