Headington Library, Bury Knowle Park:
(official Oxfordshire County Council website, with opening times)
History of the Library
(including information on 2011 closure threat)
Oxfordshire County Council Library Service
Catalogue of Oxfordshire County Council Libraries
(and renew your books: necessary to get a pin number from the library first)
www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/referenceonline
Free access to online Who’s Who, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography,
Oxford English Dictionary, etc. via your Oxfordshire library card number
Oxford Brookes Library is open to external readers
Health Care Libraries: open to medics
The internet can be viewed free of charge in
all Oxfordshire public libraries.
It is usually advisable to book a session: telephone Headington Library at 01865 762867
“If a person could not walk from Headington
or Cowley
to the
Central Library to get a book, he did not deserve
one”
(reported remark of committee member, early 1930s,
on the proposal to open branch libraries in Oxford)
