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Libraries

The Stanford University Libraries include Green Library (the main campus library), Meyer Library (technology services & study spaces), 14 specialized branch and department libraries, and 3 auxiliary libraries housing less-used or overflow materials. Five coordinate libraries, connected to graduate schools and other organizations, have their own websites and policies. The collections of all these libraries are indexed in SearchWorks.

Students exiting the Bing Wing of Green Library

Green is Stanford University's main research library, and has collections in the humanities, social sciences, area studies, and interdisciplinary areas.

Meyer Library

Public computers, equipment for loan, technology support, multimedia services, digital language lab, and 24-hour study locations. 

300,000 sound recordings and related materials span sound recording history from its beginnings to the present day.

Materials in the Art & Architecture Library

Holdings in art, architecture, and design include twentieth century ephemera, architectural treatises, and artists’ books. 

Entrance to Falconer Library

Inviting study space. Collection emphasizes life sciences, including Biology course reserves and department theses.

Business Library, interior

Primarily serves the GSB, but open to the public as well

Entrance to the Chemistry & Chemical Engineering Library

Collection includes books, e-journals, online books, reference materials, and department theses.

Architectural detail of the Stanford Quadrangle.

The Classics Library is a small departmental library open to all members of the Stanford community.

Map library, GIS support, and collection covering geology, seismology, energy resources engineering & more.

Social sciences and humanities for all historical periods in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages.

Main reading room in Cubberly Library

Highlights include current curriculum materials (including children's books), historical textbooks and college catalogs.

Engineering and physics collections; innovative “bookless” facility with attractive study space and gadget bar

Cissie Dore Hill works on coordinating an exhibit coordinator at the Hoover Institution's library and archives; shown here in the Institution's preservation laboratory.

Hoover Archives

Among the world’s most important repositories for materials on political, social, and economic change in the modern era.

First-floor entrance to the Law Library

Well-equipped legal research library that supports the curriculum, programs and clinics of the law school.

Miller Library, exterior

In Pacific Grove, CA; focuses on marine biology, oceanography, fisheries, and other aquatic sciences.

Extensive technical reports collection includes computer science, mathematics, and statistics reports.

State-of-the-art medical library with a substantial digital collection and clinical decision tools to researchers worldwide.

A student enjoys an afternoon in the Music Library's main reading room

Support for all aspects of music scholarship; sound and video recordings; printed scores, monographs, and journals

A view looking west down SLAC's two-mile-long linear accelerator, 2/29/2012.

Supports research in photon science, particle physics and astrophysics, and more.

Special Collections

Acquires and preserves manuscripts, rare books, and university archives.

Infrequently-used books & journals from campus libraries. Visit in person, or page materials for delivery to another campus library.

Off-campus holdings can be paged for delivery to campus libraries.

Off-campus holdings can be paged for delivery to campus libraries.

Tanner Philosophy Library is a departmental library open to all members of the Stanford community.