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The University of Oxford's main research library is the Bodleian, founded by Sir Thomas Bodley in 1598 and opened in 1602.
牛津大學的主要學術圖書館是牛津大學圖書館，于1598年由托馬斯.包德利爵士建立，并于1602年開放。
Thomas Bodley, a former fellow of Merton College, donated a number of his own books to furnish it when the library went through a period of decline.
托馬斯.包德利曾是默頓學院的學生，他在圖書館處于低谷的時候捐獻了大量他自己的藏書來維持圖書館的正常開放。
As such, the library was reopened under its present name of "Bodleian Library".
就這樣，圖書館便以它現在的名稱“包德利圖書館”重新開放了。
It is one of the oldest libraries in Europe, and is the second-largest library in the United Kingdom，behind the British Library.
該圖書館是歐洲最古老的圖書館，也是全英國僅次于英國國家圖書館的第二大圖書館。
Though the Bodleian library has owned some 11 million items on 117 miles of shelving, the collection is growing at a rate of over three miles of shelving per year.
雖然牛津大學圖書館在其117英里長的書架上已存放有超過1100萬冊圖書，該館的藏書還在以每年3英里書架長度的速度增長。
The continued growth of the collections has resulted in a severe shortage of storage space.
持續的藏書增長造成了圖書館儲藏空間的急劇短缺。
As a result, the Bodleian Library has to store some of its volumes in several other libraries in central Oxford,
因此，牛津大學圖書館不得不將一些書冊存放在牛津大學的其他圖書館里，
such as the Bodleian Law Library, whose collection supports the teaching and research of Law; Indian Institute Library，
如法律圖書館收藏了法律方面的教學和研究的書籍；
which specializes in the history and culture of South Asia, Tibet and the Himalayas; Radcliffe Science Library, the main teaching and research science library;
印度學院圖書館用于存放研究南亞、西藏和喜馬拉雅山的專業書籍；拉德克里夫科學圖書館收藏了科學教學和研究方面的書籍；
and the Oriental Institute Library, which is engaged in research and teaching of a wide range of disciplines covering modern and historical Asian languages and culture.
東方學院圖書館的藏書涉及現代和古代亞洲語言和文化等各神學科的研究和教學。
Its main central site consists of the Radcliffe Camera, the Old Schools Quadrangle (sometimes referred to as the “Schools Quadrangle”，or the “Old Library”)，the Clarendon Building, and the New Bodleian Building.
牛津大學圖書館的中心建筑主要包括拉德克里夫圖書館、老學校方庭（有時也被稱為“學校方庭”或是“老圖書館”）、克萊登大樓和新牛津大學圖書館。
Apart from the Bodleian, there are also a great many other special libraries in Oxford,
除了牛津大學圖書館，牛津大學還有非常多的特色圖書館，
such as the Sackler Library, which holds a large portion of the classical, art historical，and archaeological works.
如：賽克勒圖書館，它擁有大量的古典作品、藝術歷史作品和考古作品。
In addition, all colleges maintain their own libraries,
另外，所有的學院也都有自己的圖書館，
for instance, the Christ Church Library belonging to Christ Church College, the Codrington Library to All Souls College, and the Merton College Library to Merton College.
例如：基督教堂學院的基督教堂圖書館、眾靈學院的科德林頓圖書 館和默頓學院的默頓學院圖書館。
