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Following the extension and refurbishment, the Bill Bryson library has 11,500 m 2 (124,000 sq ft) of floor space and 23,000 m (75,000 ft) of open shelving. [66] The library is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, during the academic year, with staffed services available 8am to 10pm on weekdays and 9am to 10pm at weekends. [67]
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A two-storey porch was added to the front of the library at this time to give access to the gallery. [1] In 1937, the library came under the sole trusteeship of Durham University. [6] In 1998, a group of manuscripts was stolen from the library, including Bishop Cosin's copy of the Shakespeare First Folio.
The Durham Gospels, a very incomplete late 7th century insular Gospel Book (MS A. II. 17), and the Durham Gospel Fragment, a very incomplete late 7th century insular Gospel Book, are part of the library's holdings. [4] There is also a copy of the Bible in four volumes, folio, which is 600 years old. [2]
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Chancellor of the University of Durham (1913–1918) [244] Randolph Quirk, Baron Quirk ― Professor of English Language at University of Durham (1958–1960); Member of the House of Lords (1994–2017) [245] John Sewel, Baron Sewel: University: Chairman of Committees (2012–2015); Member of the House of Lords (1996–2015) [246]
The Teaching and Learning Centre was built on a former sports field owned by the university between Vincent Harris's neoclassical St Mary's College and the Edwardian Arts and Crafts-style Bow School, directly opposite Daniel Liebeskind's deconstructivist Ogden Centre for Fundamental Physics, on the university's Lower Mountjoy campus on the other side of South Road.