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-has an online resource to check out audiobooks and books
-wooden desks
-computers
-couches
-book storage room
-Mrs. Geltch teacher librarian
-Mr. Calderon

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Open a world of reading. Try Sora, the new reading app for students, by OverDrive.

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Codrington Library, All Souls College, Oxford, England

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Codrington Library, All Souls College, Oxford, England

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-Its modern collections are particularly strong in law and history, especially the history of Britain and early modern Europe, and military history.
-9 AM-6:30 PM
-large desks
-small one person desks

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The Library at All Souls College is, like all Oxford college libraries, an independent institution. Its modern collections are particularly strong in law and history, especially the history of Britain and early modern Europe, and military history. Philosophy, sociology, and the history of science are also well represented.

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-students
-staff members

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-10 AM-5 PM
-fashion resources
-Watson Library Artist Indexes such as African American artists, Asian American and pacific islander artists, etc
-Sophia Alexandrov Senior Manager for Library Administration
-William Blueher

Associate Museum Librarian, Manager of Cataloging

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Watson Library is open to visiting researchers, no appointment needed. Please review our Frequently Asked Questions for Visitors in advance of your visit. All researchers are required to adhere to Visitor Guidelines. Starting on September 10, Watson Library will be open 10am-4pm on Saturdays.
Thomas J. Watson Library is The Met's research library. With its collection of more than one million volumes, extensive digital collections, and online resources, Watson Library is one of the world's most comprehensive art libraries.

The Library's holdings reflect the global and encyclopedic nature of The Met, with books ranging in date from the late fifteenth century, to current scholarship, in all fields covered by The Met. Last year the Library added more than twenty thousand titles in sixty-seven languages.
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The Library's mission is to support the research activities of the Museum staff and to offer access and outstanding services to an international community of students and scholars.

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10:00am-4:00pm

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Thomas J. Watson Library is the central research library of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Its collection of books and periodicals relating to the history of art is one of the most comprehensive in the world.

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-digital library
-an online resource to checkout audio books

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-over 5,000 printed books
-textbooks
-fiction, nonfiction books
-comic books
-books are organized by the Dewey decimal system

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Codrington Library, All Souls College, Oxford, England

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Codrington Library, All Souls College, Oxford, England

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-The Library's digital resources are collected at library.asc.ox.ac.uk/.
-library blog: in capitulis

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Codrington Library, All Souls College, Oxford, England

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Codrington Library, All Souls College, Oxford, England

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-architectural drawings
-early printed books
-manuscripts
-maps
-archives
-185,000 readable material

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Codrington Library, All Souls College, Oxford, England

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Codrington Library, All Souls College, Oxford, England

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-students of university of Oxford
-people who are registered with a current SSO (who aren't students)
-staff

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-being able to search the entire collection online
-Watson Library's Digital Collections which has over 1.1 million pages of content

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-contains over 1,020,000 volumes, including monographs and exhibition catalogs
-more than 140,000 auction and sale catalogs
-provides access to an extensive collection of electronic resources (including numerous indexes, encyclopedias, dictionaries, online journals, databases, and Internet resources), autograph letters, and ephemera files relating to individual artists and to the history of the Museum.

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-students
-seniors
-children
-adults