SIGHTSEERS braved the chilly spring weather to take the first steps into the new Weston Library today.
The Grade II listed building opened its doors to the public at 8am after a three-year £80m transformation.
And osteopath Clive Lindley-Jones, of Iffley Fields, was the first visitor to set his foot through the door.
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He said: "I'm interested in all these changes to buildings. I have been watching it progress, seeing the building work going on and I was interested to see this combination of the old and the new."
The official opening of the building was followed by the launch of the library's Marks of Genius: Treasure from the Bodleian exhibition.
It celebrates more than 2,000 years of work from poets, authors, scientists and composers, which have been preserved in the library.
Inside the new Weston Library
And to mark the occasion, Mr Lindley-Jones was prized with a special hardback copy of book Marks of Genius: Masterpieces from the Collections of the Bodleian Libraries.
Mr Lindley-Jones, 67, said: "I think my wife will be rather cross I have yet another book but this is a splendid book so I'm sure she wouldn't mind."
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