News Page
Welcome!
This page is here to let you all know what is going on. Making an access guide is a tricky business and with over 290 buildings it’s no small task!
This new look website contains a brand new navigation and a new format to represent access information - have a look at the 'how it works!' page.
Because we simply can't do all 290 buildings at once we will be releasing the building pages in batches of ten and first up is libraries. We chose the top ten most popular libraries first. Click on the image below to see what we have been up to:
The eagle eyed amongst you might notice that the detailed information page for each library is missing. Don't worry we have not changed our minds - it should be with you in a few more weeks. Make sure you come back and tell us what you think about the full package.
Where we haven't audited yet we have included links and contact details to help in the meantime. We recognise it is not ideal, but we have done some of the sifting of information for you!
What's next?
The top ten themes continue with the most populous courses and the buildings they use. We expect this process to take 2 months to do. These are the most popular subjects and all the buildings they use occupy will be coming online:
History - Maths - Biological Sciences - Chemistry -Philosophy, Politics and Economics- English- Law -Physics- Engineering - Medicine.
What about visitors?
We also realise that the University is a Mecca for many visitors to Oxford and the UK, and that local residents and students use the public buildings too. We are planning to complete the museums and collections, sports and other recreational buildings and we think it will be published in 6 months time.
After the top ten?
After the start of term, the process begins all over again with next most popular batch of libraries, teaching spaces and University buildings released. We anticipate that these batches will take 2-3 months per batch as we have to visit the buildings and make the web pages.
Is that all the news? NO!
There is more! As part of this project we are collaborating with other University services to completely revamp the mapping interface. This will be not only be a great gateway for access information but for all University resources. There will be pop ups with information for departments but what they do and how accessible they are and you can even use Street View to have a look around! As this is a huge project we are not sure on the delivery date but fingers crossed it should be with us in the New Year!
As ever we would love your feedback. Click on the link in the sidebar to tell us your thoughts.
Put all of this together and we will have a really useful access guide up and running to make your experience of visiting Oxford that little bit easier!