Bodleian-on-Thames to Go Ahead

A new £29 million development for the Bodleian Library has been approved by Oxford City Council. The extension, at Osney Meads, will hold an estimated eight million books, or the equivalent of 20 years' worth of texts.The Bodleian struggles to cope with an addition of more than three miles of shelving a year to house the newly published texts, but the go-ahead from Oxford city's council earlier this week will provide some welcome relief.The building work is due to commence immediately and will continue until 2009.