[1] The scientific books housed in the Radcliffe Camera were transferred to the Oxford University Museum of Natural History in 1861.

[1] The building has doors with relief wood carvings[3] by Don Potter, undertaken while he was studying with the sculptor Eric Gill.

[4] With the construction of a basement in the 1970s, part of the building was used to form The Hooke Library, a (separate) science lending library for undergraduates, which was named after Robert Hooke, a scientist who worked in Oxford.

The Hooke Library housed its collection in the ground floor of the Abbot's Kitchen which was originally part of the University Museum and on the staircase at the eastern end of the Jackson Wing of the RSL.

[7] The RSL building consists of three parts, developed as expansion of the library was necessary: From 2023 the library occupies the second floors of the Jackson and Worthington buildings, the former Lankester room and stack are a museum Collections Teaching and Research Centre for the university and other spaces are used by Reuben College or shared.