Did you know that
the Library:
- Owns over 2.1 million books and circulates more than a quarter million
of them every year.
- Is a member of the Association of Research Libraries, a consortium
of the top 120 research libraries in the country.
- Represents at least 25 languages in its collections.
- Owns over 130,000 maps, atlases, and aerial photographs.
- Added nearly 24,000 book titles to its collection last year.
- Lends about 31,000 books and articles to other libraries every
year, but borrows less than half that amount.
- Circulates a wider range of videos (5800 titles) than any library
in Long Island - including every Shakespeare play, dozens of silent
era films, feature films from Mexico, Iran, China and Iceland, the
first animated films, lectures and readings by Nobel Prize winning
scientists and world-renowned authors.
- Has, with nearly 4 million rolls, one of the country’s largest
microfilm collections.
- Has access to copies of over 6.5 million patents filed with the
US Patent & Trademark Office.
- Spends over $800,000 a year to lease online research databases
and over 10,000 electronic journals. Many are unavailable anywhere
else on Long Island.
- Makes all its electronic resources available to every Stony Brook
student and employee anywhere in the world.
- Has a Special Collections Department which houses over 16,000 rare
books, 800 antique and hand-drawn maps, and over 150 collections,
including the papers of Senator Jacob K. Javits, the Environmental
Defense Archive, and the William Butler Yeats Microfilmed Manuscripts
Collection.
- Employs more than 150 people to help it look like we’ve always
been here and always will be.
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