Columbia University Libraries
Country | United States |
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Type | Academic library system |
Branches | 22 |
Collection | |
Size | Over 12 million |
Website | http://library.columbia.edu/ |
Columbia University Libraries/Information Services is the library system of Columbia University and is one of the top five academic library systems in North America and top ten largest libraries by volumes held.[1] With over 12 million volumes, over 160,000 journals and serials, as well as extensive electronic resources, manuscripts, rare books, microforms, maps, and graphic and audio-visual materials, it is the sixth largest academic library in the United States and the largest academic library in the State of New York. The services and collections are organized into 22 libraries and various academic technology centers, including affiliates.[2] The organization employs more than 450 professional and support staff and is located on the university's Morningside Heights campus in New York City.
Facts and figures
The Columbia library system contains over 65,000 serial subscriptions, nearly six million microfilms, 26 million manuscripts, over 600,000 rare books, over 100,000 videos and DVDs, and nearly 200,000 government documents. The library's collection would stretch 174 miles end-to-end, and is growing at a pace of 140,000 items per annum. The system attracts over three million visitors a year.[3]
The system is participating in the Google Books Library Project.[4]
The libraries
The libraries in the Columbia system include:
- Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library
- Barnard College Library (affiliate)
- Burke Library at the Union Theological Seminary
- Business & Economics Library (Watson) at the Columbia Business School
- Butler Library
- Center for Human Rights Documentation and Research
- Columbia Center for Oral History
- Columbia University Archives
- Digital Humanities Center
- Digital Science Center
- Digital Social Science Center
- East Asian Library (Starr)
- Engineering Library (Monell)
- Geology Library
- Geoscience Library at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York
- Global Studies
- Health Sciences Library at the Columbia University Medical Center in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan
- Jewish Theological Seminary Library (affiliate)
- Journalism Library
- Arthur W. Diamond Law Library at the Columbia Law School
- Lehman Social Sciences Library at the School of International and Public Affairs
- Mathematics Library
- Milstein Undergraduate Library of Columbia College
- Music & Arts Library (Weiner)
- Off-Site Shelving Facility (ReCAP)
- Rare Book & Manuscript Library
- Science & Engineering Library
- Journalism Library of Columbia Journalism School
- Social Work Library of Columbia University School of Social Work
- Teachers College Library of Teachers College (affiliate)
Additionally, Columbia shares an off-site shelving facility, located in Plainsboro, New Jersey, with the Research Collections and Preservation Consortium (RECAP), which includes the New York Public Library and the library system of Princeton University.[5]
Low Memorial Library, a prominent building on Columbia's campus emblazoned with the inscription "The Library of Columbia University", is no longer chiefly a library, serving instead as the university's administrative center. It was the university's central library from the 1890s to the 1930s, when due to shortage of space it was supplanted by Butler Library. The Columbia University Archives collection, formerly housed in Low, is now located within the Rare Book and Manuscript Library on the 6th floor of Butler Library.
External links
- Libraries Website
- / Libraries Catalog
- CUL web archives hosted at Archive-It
- In Columbia Spectator
- At Archive.org
References
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- ↑ "Debate at N.Y. Public Library: Can Off-Site Storage Work for Researchers?" Jennifer Howard. April 22, 2012. Chronicle of Higher Education.