Heythrop Library

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  • Sign on new acquisitions trolley telling everyone when the Library will close on that day.

    Improvements October 2025

    Lots of changes, most of the improvements have been made, but the following four might have escaped your notice – even if you are a library member who regularly uses our reading room. First up: inspired by a regular user of the reading room, who construct their own standing desk by finding door-stopper volumes to…

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  • Until August this was the shelf area of books classmarked as BJ1249 (Ethics, Catholics Works, 1801-).

    Why BJ1249 is not the bee’s knees 

    It might be news or “olds” to you, but here it is. One of the principles in academic libraries is that one separates texts by philosophers from those written by theologians. This might sound odd, or even unnecessary, but I don’t believe that this is a black-and-white view.

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