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Welcome to the UConn Libraries
Who We Are,
What we do

Collections
What We Own: Traditional, Electronic, Internet

Borrowing Materials
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Remote Access
Library Resources
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The Library Collections

Traditional Collections

	2,300,000 books
	Over 10,000 current periodical series
	4,000 video recordings
	35,000 music and spoken word sound recordings
	20,000 music scores
	180,000 detailed maps of every area of the world
	3,000,000 units of microform research materials
	500,000 U.S. and Connecticut state government reports
	Doctoral dissertations and master's theses written by University of Connecticut graduates
	Materials that require special handling and preservation, including manuscripts, rare books, broadsides, pamphlets, photographs, and prints
	University of Connecticut publications and documents: including special reports, campus newspapers, photographs, yearbooks, charters, architectural drawings, and administrative records

Electronic Collections

Increasingly, the most heavily used library resources are being made available electronically across the campus network, so that at all hours of the day or night students, faculty, and others will have access to these resources in their dorms, homes, offices, classrooms, and computer labs.

By far, the most frequently used electronic resources are those that present the complete text of the latest news reports, journal articles, government documents, business surveys, and medical research. Some of the more popular FULL TEXT resources are listed below:

The Internet

The Internet plays an increasingly important role in Library research. The Library regularly reviews and evaluates Internet sites relevant to the academic disciplines taught on campus. Links to these sites are arranged in separate Resources by Subject web pages.

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