Anne Kenney, Carl A. Kroch University Librarian; tel.:
(607) 255-3689
Holdings: 3,513,000 volumes (includes holdings for the Asia Collections
in Kroch Library); 2.9 million microforms; 228,000 maps
More than half of Cornell University Library’s
total collection is housed in Olin and Kroch Libraries. When CUL outgrew
its space in the 1950s, Stephen McCarthy, the director, set out to build
a modern research library. His plan became a reality with the opening
of Olin Library in 1961. Since then the Olin collections have grown along
with the rapid expansion of the university’s research and teaching
programs.
The range of material in the Olin collections is broad, and the richness
of its resources is impressive. The general collections represent the
array of disciplines in social sciences and humanities, and extensive
research-level materials are available in philosophy, religion, classics,
government, political science, history, economics, history of science,
linguistics, and literature. The holdings in literature from around the
world are a scholar’s delight, especially the English literature
collection, which is recognized as a national resource. Olin also houses
fine collections of area-studies material, (e.g., its rapidly growing
Slavic and Latin American collections).
The notably strong collection of reference materials includes more than
20,000 volumes in the reading room area and many thousands of volumes
in the general collections. It features all of the national bibliographies
available worldwide as well as an extensive collection of subject bibliographies
and indexes. The Electronic Text Center features more than 100 full-text
scholarly sources on CD-ROM, some of which are networked and available
through the Library Gateway.
The Olin holdings are also particularly strong
in national and international documents, especially those published by
the United States government and by the United Nations and its related
organizations. In addition, newspapers and maps from around the world
are available in Olin as well as the Media Center which houses
videos, DVDs, and non-musical sound recordings -- VCR's and DVD players
are also available for viewing in-house. The microform collections --
microfiche, microfilm and microprint-- and viewers are also housed in
the Media Center.
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