The Library

The College Library is divided into two sections. The Old Library dates from 1624 and houses historic manuscripts, rare books and personal papers. The modern Working Library houses borrowable books and current periodicals, as well as computer and work facilities to which members have 24 hour access.

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New books added to the Library in January. You can recommend a book/DVD by using the online recommendation form, or fill in a form available at the Issue Desk. Recent acquisitions RSS Feed Bibliography Z 8.G7.C3 Cambridge history of the book in...
New books added to the Library in December. Some of these books are on display on Ground Floor. Books on display are borrowable. To recommend a book or DVD for the Library to purchase, you can use the online item recommendation form or fill in one...
You can now keep up with progress and developments in the Butler Project through our monthly updates, just launched on the Samuel Butler pages of the Library website. Each month the Butler Project Associate, Rebecca Watts, will write a diary entry...

Events

16th Jan 2012

This exhibition marks the 800th anniversary of one of the Library's most unusual treasures: the mortuary roll of Amphelisa, Prioress of Lillechurch. The mortuary roll will be on display in the...

17th Mar 2012

The first 'Butler Day' will take place during the Cambridge Science Festival, with a range of free events considering Samuel Butler in the context of nineteenth-century evolutionary thought and...