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I get that Oxford and its library have been around for many centuries which gives it that feeling. I usually prefer a library with actual books versus technology, so any library that does that is magical in a sense.
There are a tremendous number of books and documents in the various libraries that comprise the Bodleian. Digital Humanities has grown and grown as an academic field. Even in four years from one visit of mine to Oxford to another, a vast number of documents and historical books had had been scanned to a very high resolution. Of course, there's nothing like holding an historical document or a book from the distant past in your own hands. I'm working on William Blake's Songs of Innocence and would dearly have loved to have viewed this rare copy (there are are not many still existing across the world), but the watercolours he and his wife applied to the illustrations are far too light sensitive to be viewed, sadly...
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I get that Oxford and its library have been around for many centuries which gives it that feeling. I usually prefer a library with actual books versus technology, so any library that does that is magical in a sense.
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There are a tremendous number of books and documents in the various libraries that comprise the Bodleian. Digital Humanities has grown and grown as an academic field. Even in four years from one visit of mine to Oxford to another, a vast number of documents and historical books had had been scanned to a very high resolution. Of course, there's nothing like holding an historical document or a book from the distant past in your own hands. I'm working on William Blake's Songs of Innocence and would dearly have loved to have viewed this rare copy (there are are not many still existing across the world), but the watercolours he and his wife applied to the illustrations are far too light sensitive to be viewed, sadly...
