Brown University Library

The Brown University Library is central to the Browns teaching and research mission. With a collection that includes approximately 7 million volumes (including over 2 million ebooks), nearly 150,000 online journals, more than 500 databases, and over 15,000 linear feet of manuscripts and archives, the Brown Library is one of the largest academic libraries in New England. In addition, Brown faculty and students may borrow from the collections of other Ivy libraries (some 90 million titles) as well as obtain materials from libraries around the globe through interlibrary loan. The Brown Library system consists of five campus buildings as well as the nearby Library Collections Annex (an off-campus high-density storage facility with a shelving capacity of 1.5 million volumes). The John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library houses the Librarys collections for the humanities, social sciences, and fine arts. It is also home to the Center for Digital Scholarship, a hub of leading-edge digital projects,...