Editing Bodleian Library (section)

===20th century and after===
[[File:Bodleian Library and nearby buildings.jpg|thumb|The Library and nearby buildings in 2016]]
In 1907, the head librarian, Nicholson, had begun a project to revise the catalogue of printed books.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Clapinson|first1=Mary|title=A Brief History of the Bodleian Library.|date=2015|publisher=University of Oxford|location=Oxford, London|isbn=978-1-85124-273-3|page=126|chapter=A new century and a New Bodleian}}</ref> In 1909, the prime minister of Nepal, [[Chandra Shumsher Jang Bahadur Rana|Chandra Shum Shere]], donated a large collection of [[Sanskrit literature]] to the library.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/weston/finding-resources/guides/southasia |title=Weston Library &#124; South & Inner Asia |publisher=Bodleian.ox.ac.uk |access-date=12 March 2017}}</ref>

In 1911, the [[Copyright Act 1911|Copyright Act]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/1-2/46/contents |title=Copyright Act 1911 |publisher=legislation.gov.uk |access-date=11 March 2017}}</ref> (now superseded by the [[Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003]]) continued the Stationers' agreement by making the Bodleian one of the six (at that time) libraries covering [[legal deposit]] in the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom]] where a copy of each published book must be deposited.

Between 1909 and 1912, an underground [[bookstack]] was constructed beneath the [[Radcliffe Camera]] and [[Radcliffe Square]], known since 2011 as the [[Gladstone Link]].<ref name="exhibition-proposals">Oxford University Library Services: [http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/_OULS_admin/?a=11910 "A university library for the 21st century: an exhibition of proposals by the Oxford University Library Services (OULS)"], (University of Oxford, 2005), accessed 2 April 2015 [https://web.archive.org/web/20131012074855/http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk:80/_OULS_admin/?a=11910 archived].</ref><ref name="gladstone">{{citation |title=Project Information: Gladstone Link (previously Underground Bookstore) |url=http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/about/buildings/underground-bookstore/details |access-date=13 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110618193107/http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/about/buildings/underground-bookstore/details |archive-date=18 June 2011 |url-status=dead |publisher=Bodleian Libraries}}</ref> In 1914, the total number of books in the library's collections exceeded 1&nbsp;million.<ref name="exhibition-proposals"/> By 1915, only one quarter of the revised catalogue had been completed, a task made more difficult by library staff going into the [[History of the United Kingdom during the First World War|war effort]], either serving in the armed forces or volunteering to serve in the hospitals. In July 1915, the most valuable books had been moved into a secret location due to a fear that Oxford would be bombed, and a volunteer fire brigade was trained and ready, but Oxford escaped the [[First World War]] without being bombed.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Clapinson|first1=Mary|title=A Brief History of the Bodleian Library|date=2015|publisher=University of Oxford|location=Oxford, London|isbn=978-1-85124-273-3|pages=126–128|chapter=A new century and a New Bodleian}}</ref> By the 1920s, the Library needed further expansion space, and in 1937 building work began on the New Bodleian building, opposite the [[Clarendon Building]] on the northeast corner of [[Broad Street, Oxford|Broad Street]].

The New Bodleian was designed by architect [[Sir Giles Gilbert Scott]]. Construction was completed in 1940. The building was of an innovative [[ziggurat]] design, with 60% of the bookstack below ground level.<ref>{{citation |title=A university library for the twenty-first century: a report to Congregation by the Curators of the University Libraries |journal=Oxford University Gazette |publisher=University of Oxford |date=22 September 2005 |volume=4743 |url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/2005-6/supps/1_4743.htm |access-date=14 February 2012 |archive-date=2 September 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070902222824/http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/2005-6/supps/1_4743.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>Craster, H. H. E. (1941). "The Bodleian Library Extension Scheme". In ''[[Bulletin of the John Rylands Library]]'', vol. 25, pp. 83–96</ref> A tunnel under Broad Street connects the Old and New Bodleian buildings, and contains a pedestrian walkway, a mechanical book conveyor and a pneumatic [[Lamson tube]] system which was used for book orders until an electronic automated stack request system was introduced in 2002.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sers.ox.ac.uk/aboutsers.html |title=University of Oxford Systems and Electronic Resources Service|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070127232123/http://www.sers.ox.ac.uk/aboutsers.html |archive-date=27 January 2007 |access-date=10 February 2007}}</ref> The [[Lamson tube]] system continued to be used by readers requesting manuscripts to be delivered to Duke Humfrey's Library until it was turned off in July 2009. In 2010, it was announced that the conveyor, which had been transporting books under Broad Street since the 1940s, would be shut down and dismantled on 20 August 2010.<ref name="gladstone"/><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.cherwell.org/content/10582 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120722190102/http://www.cherwell.org/content/10582 |url-status=dead |archive-date=22 July 2012 |newspaper=Cherwell.org |title=Radical revamp approved by Council |first=Sophie |last=Core |date=17 August 2010 }}</ref> The New Bodleian closed on 29 July 2011 prior to rebuilding.<ref name="Weston Timeline">{{cite web|url=https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/our-work/estates-projects/weston/timeline|title=Timeline|publisher=bodleian.ox.ac.uk|access-date=21 November 2018}}</ref>