I finished The Bookman this morning. Love his take on the ‘secret vaults’ under Bodleian. 🙂 I used to haunt the Bod. in my youth, but it’s a bit of a non-starter now. Wheelchair access is limited and you now have to spend an hour taking a one-to-one ‘Individual Site Induction’ course before they let you in due to Fire Risk. Even then wheelchair users can only access half the Library – Duke Humphrey’s library (the oldest and most interesting room) is only accessible via stairs, as is the ‘Lower Gladstone Link’ tunnel that connects the Bod. to the Radcliffe Camera, where wheelchair users are limited to the ground floor AND have to arrange a ‘Personal Evacuation Plan’ first. Quite honestly, I cannot be arsed!