University of Minnesota Libraries

University of Minnesota Libraries

Wilson Library, largest in the system
Country United States
Type Academic library
Established 1851
Branches 14
Collection
Size 7,111,311 volumes[1]
109,681 serial subscriptions[1]
Access and use
Population served 55,931 faculty, staff and students and the state of Minnesota
Other information
Budget $41,225,580 annually[2]
Director Wendy Pradt Lougee
Staff 391[2]
Website http://www.lib.umn.edu/

The University of Minnesota Libraries is the library system of the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus, operating at 13 facilities in and around Minneapolis–Saint Paul. It has over 7 million volumes and 109,000 serial titles that are collected, maintained and made accessible.[1] The system is the 17th largest academic library in North America[2] and the 22nd largest library in the United States.[3] While the system's primary mission is to serve faculty, staff and students, because the University is a land-grant institution its libraries are also open to the public.

The Libraries hold a variety of notable specialized and unusual collections. Examples include the world's largest assembly of materials on Sherlock Holmes and his creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle;[4][5] the Kerlan Collection of over 100,000 children's books;[6] the Hess Collection, one of North America's largest collections of dime novels, story papers and pulp fiction;[7][8] the James Ford Bell Library of rare maps, books and manuscripts,[9] and the seventh largest law library in the United States, including over 1 million volumes and personal papers such as those of Clarence Darrow.[10]

The system is a Federal Depository Library, a Minnesota State Depository Library and United Nations Depository Library. Among research institutions it maintains the second largest collection of government documents in North America.[11]

Library buildings and collections

The Elmer L. Andersen Library. Home to the Charles Babbage Institute; Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts; and the University Archives
Walter Science and Technology Library
Minneapolis West Bank Campus
Minneapolis East Bank Campus
St. Paul Campus
Off-Campus Locations

Services

The library system makes various services available to faculty, staff and students such as:

The system also offers services to citizens in Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota through MINITEX, a publicly funded program that supports academic, state government, public, school and specialized libraries in the region.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "University of Minnesota Libraries Facts and Figures". University of Minnesota. 2012. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
  2. 1 2 3 "ARL Statistics 2008–2009" (pdf). Association of Research Libraries, Washington DC. 2011. p. 74. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
  3. "The Nation's Largest Libraries: A Listing by Volumes Held". American Library Association, Chicago. 2012. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
  4. Baenen, Jeff (18 December 2009). "Investigate Sherlock Holmes in Minnesota". The San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco). Retrieved 12 August 2012.
  5. Lemanczyk, Sarah (21 December 2011). "Sherlock's Archive". Studio 360. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
  6. Karen Nelson Hoyle (November 1978). "The Kerlan Collection". Children's Literature Association Quarterly 3 (1-2): 13. doi:10.1353/chq.0.0642.
  7. "The Hess Collection". University of Minnesota. 2008. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
  8. "Stanford's Holdings and Other Major Dime Novel Collections". Stanford University. 2012. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
  9. "James Ford Bell Library". University of Minnesota. 2010. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
  10. "Law School Profile". University of Minnesota. 11 December 2011. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
  11. ARL Statistics, p. 79

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