Research Visits & Image Requests
Our limited special collections appointments are booked out until the end of March 2023. We hope to offer appointments by June 2023 at the latest, but we are currently not taking any new bookings. Any requests for appointments will be added to a waiting list. You will be contacted as soon as we can give you a reliable appointment. Please accept our apologies for this inconvenience.
To arrange a consultation appointment, please complete the Research Visit Request.
For visits to the library without research interests, including group visits, please see Exhibitions & Library Tours.
All Special Collections (except for the Robert Graves Collection)
Digital images for private study and publications may be ordered by completing the Image Order form. Please submit your requests well in advance.
Robert Graves Collection
For image requests of items in our Robert Graves Collection, please consult our Robert Graves Collection webpages.
All Special Collections (except for the Robert Graves Collection)
If you would like to publish images of items in St John’s College’s Special Collections, please complete the Permission to Publish (Print) and/or Permission to Publish (Electronic) form(s) as relevant; the latter includes publications on websites. This applies to all images of items in St John’s Special Collections regardless whether the images are supplied by the library or taken by yourself or others. If you do not yet have the image(s) you would like to publish, please also submit an image request.
Robert Graves Collection
For image requests of items in our Robert Graves Collection, please consult our Robert Graves Collection webpages.
If you are new to consulting special collections or if you'd like to learn more about special collections at Oxford colleges in general, you may find this film made by the librarians of Balliol College together with many other Oxford librarians useful. It combines practical advice with an introduction to the great diversity of material held in Oxford colleges.