Keble College Library & Archive

When you hit your GoodReads goal 🔥🔥🔥

When no-one prepared for the tutorial, so it is easier to throw each other under the bus

@19Averil We also have uncatalogued mss in several other languages, but when we get those described (not straightforward!) we’d love to publish a supplement to Parkes for all the mss in non-Roman scripts! We'll be sure to post on here or our instagram when we get some!

@keblelib And can both now be published in a booklet to supplement Parkes’ Latin-based catalogue?

With a hundred million thanks to the FAMOUS Project, we have eight manuscripts from the Islamicate world now fully catalogued here: fihrist.org.uk/?utf8=%E2%9C%9…

It was Agatha all along 💜✨ (The martyrdom of St Agatha... ouch!)

Wha-- how did that get there?! 😏

Leap, fox; hoot, owl; wail, warbler sweet: ’Tis midnight now’s a-brewing; The fairy mob is all abroad. And witches at their wooing. - Crossings: A Fairy Play by Walter de la Mare

For anyone concerned about open flames in the library, the candles are *fake*!

"Come to the library, it is a really nice vibe" The vibe:

@P_G_Anderson No flames were kindled, except for the fire in the Keble Librarian's hearts ❤️‍🔥 (The candles you can see are battery operated!)

The most disturbing part of this Gothick tour of my old college's manuscripts, isn't the gruesome mediaeval illustration of decapitation, but the sight of naked candle flames, flickering among the books, defying the most basic law of the university - kindle no flame in a library.

@andi_thoms The library exists outside of space and time 👻

@keblelib That's where my daughter is at this exact moment, or is she ???? 👻🎃

@KebleOutreach 🖤

@keblelib Seeing zero issues with this vibe 👻

Memento Mori (i.e. remember you must die) are visual reminders of the transient nature of life found in many medieval books ...great, thanks

Keble members whispering in the library, thinking they're having a private conversation, meanwhile me, the librarian, is getting updated on the college tea

@blackwelloxford 96,857

Count every book! Blackwell's Broad Street will be closing early at 6pm on Tuesday 22nd for our biannual stock take. The Music Department will close at 4pm. Can you guess how many different titles we have in the shop? Closest guess will win a £25 Blackwell's gift card. T&Cs

Aries, Gemini, Capricorn and Pisces 🎶 Otherwise known as Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes... Did you know that astrological signs connect body parts to the cosmosphere?

First week of term completed ✔️

Do you mind?

Week 1 of Michaelmas Term 2024 ⏰

Keble's Librarians are called Fiona & Leona When in doubt, you can call either of us "Fleona" and we'll answer (We also accept "Yo", "Hey", "Excuse me", "Ugh" and just standing silently nearby in the hopes we see you)