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Collections Overview

A.D. White Library, Uris Library


The Cornell University Library's collections encompass a rich and varied universe of printed volumes, digital resources, maps, media and archival materials. Its print collection includes more than eight million volumes, plus nearly one million e-books. With close to 5 million journal article downloads per year and 89 percent of the nearly 100,000 current serial titles available online, the Library's digital collection continues to grow at a rapid pace.

COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT PRINCIPLES

SUBJECT STRENGTHS

The Library has long been known for its nationally prominent collections in Southeast Asia studies, industrial relations, viticulture, and Old Norse and Icelandic materials, as well as for solid research-level collections in agriculture, astronomy, chemistry, classics, French history and literature, human development, mathematics, medieval studies, microbiology, North European language and literature, physics, and western European social sciences. The Library’s material and digital collections are administered by a large staff of expert subject librarians.

DIGITAL COLLECTIONS

A leader in digital library research and development since the early 1990’s, CUL is building collections with local and global partners as well as licensing access to a rapidly expanding collection of electronic resources in all fields of scholarship. We have extensive holdings of electronic journals, books, primary texts of various kinds, digital images of fine artworks from around the globe, statistical data files and hundreds of indexes, abstracts and search tools.

RARE BOOK & MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS

Cornell University’s rare book and manuscript collections date from the founding of the University in 1865. Andrew Dickson White, Cornell's co-founder and first president, was a life-long book collector who believed that deep collections of primary resources are central to scholarship and teaching. These founding ideas continue to guide Cornell's collection building policies to this day. Collections of rare materials are primarily found in the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections in Carl A. Kroch Library, but several other campus libraries -- including Catherwood, Law, and Mann -- maintain rare materials, as well.

New Collection Development Model

For information on the new Team-based collection development model implemented on July 1, 2020, see the Collection Development wiki.

Usage Statistics

COUNTER and related usage statistics information and tools can be found on the CUL Usage Statistics wiki page.

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