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Libraries

Empowering bold thinkers to change the world

The heart of any research university is its libraries. The Ģý’s libraries offer resources for inspiration, research, and collaboration.

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Learn more about our library spaces, services, collections, and other resources offered, as well as hours of operation.

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Libraries on the River Campus

includes six libraries and an extensive collection of online databases and journals, as well as the and the

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    Eastman School of Music

    Sibley Music Library has nearly 750,000 holdings in scores, books, and journals, as well as manuscripts, sheet music, and various archival collections, for performance and research.

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    Libraries on the Health Sciences Campus

    Health Sciences Campus Libraries support education, research, and clinical care at the University’s School of Medicine and Dentistry, School of Nursing, Eastman Institute for Oral Health, and hospitals. In addition to extensive contemporary digital collections, Miner Library features a robust

    • Bring your big ideas to our spaces

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    iZone is a collaborative “problem-solving” space in Rush Rhees Library on the River Campus where students go to explore and imagine ideas that have social, cultural, community and economic impact.

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    Beyond preservation: Past meets future

    Our libraries are combining digital tools and unique expertise to bring the past to life.

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    Abolitionist rediscovered

    Only two copies of the sheet music of “Farewell Song to Frederick Douglass” are known to exist—one in England and one in the University’s collections.

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    Susan B. Anthony’s letters

    Forgotten for over a century, a trove of more than a hundred letters fills in the political details of how the suffrage movement was run and the women activists who ran it.

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