Welcome to the 2026-27 Academic Year

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September 2, 2026 | Rebecca Pernell

Students gathered around archival materials in a classroom. — Students are welcome at all of Stanford's libraries.

With over 15 million items and 50 subject specialists, the Stanford University Libraries are here to support your research and academic needs.

Visit us

We welcome you to visit all our libraries and centers across campus to check out the services and resources they offer. See our hours by day.

Visit our campus makerspaces, and, if you are in Monterey Bay, come by the Harold A. Miller Library at the Hopkins Marine Station!

Your Stanford ID is required to enter any of the libraries. Be sure to bring your University ID card, or set up the Stanford Mobile app and activate the Mobile Key for library entry and book borrowing. Library hours vary based on the time of the academic calendars. Please check the hours of our libraries and centers before your visit.

Research and teaching support

Our librarians, curators, and subject specialists offer expertise across a wide range of areas, including scholarly publishing, research, data, digitization, and instructional support. For example, we support text and data mining projects, provide copyright guidance, help researchers navigate Stanford's Open Access Policy, assist with ORCID iD setup, and facilitate the deposit of research outputs and datasets in the Stanford Digital Repository.

Whether you are designing course assignments, conducting research or simply want to learn how to maximize our resources, connect with us for a consultation.

Instructor answering a student's question in a workshop.

Study spaces

Looking for a quiet place to study, a reading room, or a space to collaborate? The Libraries offer a variety of unique study environments to meet your needs. Undergraduates and graduate students may reserve any student group study rooms located in the East Asia Library and Green Library for groups of two or more. For late-night study sessions, a staffed after-hours study space is available in Hohbach Hall of Green Library, overnight Thursday through Sundays, with additional hours at the end of each quarter. We also offer assigned faculty study carrels in Green Library and Bowes Art & Architecture Library, which are assigned on an annual basis. We especially encourage junior faculty, who live off-campus, to apply. We also provide graduate students dissertation rooms and graduate student desks by application.

Checking out materials

SearchWorks is the Libraries’ catalog where you can request books for pickup at any library service desk and order scans of articles and book chapters. Articles+ is the fastest way to discover and access full-text journal articles and e-books. See all of our search and browse tools for finding government information, streaming media and databases. Explore special collections at Archival Collections at Stanford.

Course Reserves are books and other materials, set aside for specific courses, at the service desks for short-term use by enrolled students. Instructors submit book or streaming media requests and students may view what is currently on reserve.

Need more than books and articles? Visit the Tech Desk at the Lathrop Learning Hub to borrow laptops, iPads, projectors, cameras, and many more useful devices. Ask at the libraries’ circulation desks for sundry equipment such as mobile and laptop chargers, whiteboard supplies, etc. and visit the Media & Microtext Center to borrow DVD players and use video game consoles.

Can’t find what you are looking for? Request a purchase or ask us to borrow it from another library through Interlibrary Loan. Log into My Account to view everything you have borrowed or requested, and to renew your books and pay any bills.

Online library subscriptions

Be sure to set up your web browser with the Lean Library extension to make it easier to access the vast Stanford-licensed content, and be sure to modify your Google Scholar settings (library links) so you easily see Stanford subscriptions in your search results.

The Libraries also provide campus-wide subscriptions to The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal to Stanford community members with SUNet IDs free of charge.

Printing and scanning

Cardinal Print is Stanford’s managed cloud-based print service. Install the Cardinal Print drive on your laptop, then release print jobs at any public printer using your University ID or Mobile ID + Key. Overhead scanners are also available for self-service at most libraries.

Jobs for students

We have student jobs in the Libraries. Ask at the circulation desk. You can also check student job openings on Handshake.

Keep up with the latest library news and events on our Instagram (tag us in your posts!) and subscribe to our newsletter, Remix, We are all so happy to welcome you to Stanford University Libraries for the new academic year!