Editing Bodleian Library (section)

===Present and future of the libraries===
[[File:New Bodleian Library.JPG|thumb|The New Bodleian Library (now the Weston Library)]]
The New Bodleian building was rebuilt behind its original façade to provide improved storage facilities for rare and fragile material, as well as better facilities for readers and visitors.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/buildings |title=Buildings Update |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070907022509/http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/buildings |archive-date=7 September 2007 |access-date=10 February 2007|publisher=Oxford University Library Services}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/about/buildings/new_bodleian |title=New Bodleian (the Weston Library) |publisher=Bodleian Libraries|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120907162425/http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/about/buildings/new_bodleian |archive-date=7 September 2012 |access-date=28 December 2009}}</ref> The new building concept was designed by [[WilkinsonEyre]] and the MEP{{clarify|date=February 2024}} design was undertaken by engineering consultancy [[Hurley Palmer Flatt]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Ljeh |first1=Ike |date=7 April 2015 |title=Bodleian library: The new edition |url=http://www.bdonline.co.uk/bodleian-library-the-new-edition/5074741.article |work=bdonline.co.uk}}</ref> It reopened to readers as the [[Weston Library]] on 21 March 2015.<ref>{{cite news|title=Weston Library opens to academics after £80m revamp|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-29384945|work=BBC News|location=Oxford|date=29 September 2014|access-date=1 October 2014}}</ref> In March 2010, the group of libraries known collectively as "Oxford University Library Services" was renamed "[[Bodleian Libraries|The Bodleian Libraries]]", thus allowing those Oxford members outside the Bodleian to acquire the gloss of the Bodleian brand.{{clarify|date=February 2024}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/notices/2010_mar_02|publisher=Bodleian Libraries |title=OULS changes name to BODLEIAN LIBRARIES|work=ox.ac.uk}}</ref> The building was nominated for the 2016 [[Stirling Prize|Sterling Prize]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Mills|first1=Eleanor|title=RIBA announces Stirling Prize Shortlist|url=https://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/20072016-riba-announces-stirling-shortlist|work=Museums Association|date=20 July 2016}}</ref>

In November 2015, its collections topped 12&nbsp;million items with the acquisition of [[Percy Bysshe Shelley|Shelley's]] "[[Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things]]". Thought lost from shortly after its publication in 1811 until a copy was rediscovered in a private collection in 2006, the Bodleian has digitised the 20-page pamphlet for online access. The controversial poem and accompanying essay are believed to have contributed to the poet being sent down from [[Oxford University]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Flood |first=Alison |date=10 November 2015 |title=Lost Shelley poem execrating 'rank corruption' of ruling class made public |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/nov/10/lost-shelley-poem-execrating-rruling-class-public-poetical-essay-on-the-existing-state-of-things |access-date=18 November 2015 |website=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Furness |first=Hannah |title='Lost' Shelley poem which helped get him expelled from Oxford to be seen at last |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/11986952/Lost-Shelley-poem-which-helped-get-him-expelled-from-Oxford-to-be-seen-at-last.html |archive-date= |access-date=15 January 2025 |website=[[The Daily Telegraph]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=10 November 2015 |title=Percy Bysshe Shelley's lost poem acquired by Oxford University |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-34777871 |access-date=18 November 2015 |website=[[BBC News]] |ref={{harvid|BBC News|2015}}}}</ref>