O X F O R D C E N T R E Opening hours FOR
The Library is open from 9.00 am to 7.00 pm during Term time and I S L A M I C S T U D I E S 9.00 am to 5.00 pm outside of Term. Incorporated by A Recognized Independent Royal Charter Centre of the University of Oxford Full details can be found on the Centre website www.oxcis.ac.uk/library
How to find us:
John Radcliffe Hospital
University parks
Magdalen college cricket ground
King’s Mill Lane Magdalen college fellows garden
We are here
Headington Hill park
marston road Magdalen college Hockey ground headington road
South park magdalen bridge
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Iffley Road
cowley road
Bus: X3,13, X13 from the city centre to the second bus stop on Marston Road. Bicycle racks are available within the perimeter of the building.
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Marston Road, Oxford OX3 0EE, UK KUWAIT LIBRARY Telephone: +44 (0) 1865 618550 Email: [email protected] www.oxcis.ac.uk VISITORS’ GUIDE About us layout of the library
The Kuwait Library holds, Lower Ground Floor currently, a collection of over 17000 The Lower Ground Floor has 32 secure volumes in several languages. It lockers for the storage of personal provides researchers and students lockers belongings. (Bags, coats and umbrellas Common Room with a comprehensive range of are not permited in the Library.) liftlift material on Islam and the Muslim There is also a comfortable Common world.The Library’s collection is Room where readers can enjoy tea and reference-only. It is fully searchable coffee provided by the Centre. on SOLO (location code ‘ISL’). Ground Floor There are excellent photocopying, The collection is housed over the Upper Some areas of the library may only scanning, and printing facilities and Lower Reading Rooms, accessible be accessed under supervision of the available on site. The Centre also from the ground floor of the Centre. Library Staff. provides an eduroam wireless Reader cards connection as well as in-house guest Wi-Fi. The Library may be used by members of the University of Oxford and others, by applying for ENTRANCE KUWAIT a reader card. LIBRARY lift Readers should enter via the lift Porters’ Lodge on Marston Road. Readers are requested to email
a completed application to the to porters’ lodge
Kuwait Library Librarian ([email protected]) and attach a digital, passport-size photograph. University students should provide details of their course and college. Non-University applicants should supply a letter of recommendation from their Lodge marston road relevant institution.