The Bodleian Library is the main library in the University of Oxford. Its name derives from its founder, Sir Thomas Bodley. It is one of the legal deposit libraries where a copy of each work published in the UK is sent and as a result has over 13 million volumes.
Between 1909 and 1912, an underground book store was constructed beneath the Radcliffe Camera and Radcliffe Square, known since 2011 as the Gladstone Link.
The New Bodleian was designed by architect Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. Construction was completed in 1940. A tunnel under Broad Street connects the Old and New Bodleian buildings, and originally contained a pedestrian walkway, a mechanical book conveyor and a pneumatic Lamson tube system which was used for book orders. The conveyer and Lamson tube are now disused. The New Bodleian Library closed in 2011 and reopened in 2015 as the Weston Library.