牛津大学的主要学术图书馆是牛津大学图书馆，于1598年由托马斯.包德利爵士建立，并于1602年开放。

Thomas Bodley, a former fellow of Merton College, donated a number of his own books to furnish it when the library went through a period of decline.

托马斯.包德利曾是默顿学院的学生，他在图书馆处于低谷的时候捐献了大量他自己的藏书来维持图书馆的正常开放。

As such, the library was reopened under its present name of "Bodleian Library".

就这样，图书馆便以它现在的名称“包德利图书馆”重新开放了。

It is one of the oldest libraries in Europe, and is the second-largest library in the United Kingdom，behind the British Library.

该图书馆是欧洲最古老的图书馆，也是全英国仅次于英国国家图书馆的第二大图书馆。

Though the Bodleian library has owned some 11 million items on 117 miles of shelving, the collection is growing at a rate of over three miles of shelving per year.

虽然牛津大学图书馆在其117英里长的书架上已存放有超过1100万册图书，该馆的藏书还在以每年3英里书架长度的速度增长。

The continued growth of the collections has resulted in a severe shortage of storage space.

持续的藏书增长造成了图书馆储藏空间的急剧短缺。

As a result, the Bodleian Library has to store some of its volumes in several other libraries in central Oxford,

因此，牛津大学图书馆不得不将一些书册存放在牛津大学的其他图书馆里，

such as the Bodleian Law Library, whose collection supports the teaching and research of Law; Indian Institute Library，

如法律图书馆收藏了法律方面的教学和研究的书籍；

which specializes in the history and culture of South Asia, Tibet and the Himalayas; Radcliffe Science Library, the main teaching and research science library;

印度学院图书馆用于存放研究南亚、西藏和喜马拉雅山的专业书籍；拉德克里夫科学图书馆收藏了科学教学和研究方面的书籍；

and the Oriental Institute Library, which is engaged in research and teaching of a wide range of disciplines covering modern and historical Asian languages and culture.

东方学院图书馆的藏书涉及现代和古代亚洲语言和文化等各神学科的研究和教学。

Its main central site consists of the Radcliffe Camera, the Old Schools Quadrangle (sometimes referred to as the “Schools Quadrangle”，or the “Old Library”)，the Clarendon Building, and the New Bodleian Building.

牛津大学图书馆的中心建筑主要包括拉德克里夫图书馆、老学校方庭（有时也被称为“学校方庭”或是“老图书馆”）、克莱登大楼和新牛津大学图书馆。

Apart from the Bodleian, there are also a great many other special libraries in Oxford,

除了牛津大学图书馆，牛津大学还有非常多的特色图书馆，

such as the Sackler Library, which holds a large portion of the classical, art historical，and archaeological works.

如：赛克勒图书馆，它拥有大量的古典作品、艺术历史作品和考古作品。

In addition, all colleges maintain their own libraries,

另外，所有的学院也都有自己的图书馆，

for instance, the Christ Church Library belonging to Christ Church College, the Codrington Library to All Souls College, and the Merton College Library to Merton College.

例如：基督教堂学院的基督教堂图书馆、众灵学院的科德林顿图书 馆和默顿学院的默顿学院图书馆。