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About
the Libraries >
Just
the Facts
The University Libraries has the largest library collection in the Rocky
Mountain region:
More than 11 million books, periodicals, government publications, special
and archival collections, audiovisual and other materials are available
in Norlin Library and the Business, Earth Sciences, Engineering, Math/Physics
and Music libraries.
Norlin Library is affiliated with the best university libraries in the
country and is a member of the Colorado
Alliance of Research Libraries (a cooperative of Colorado and
Wyoming research libraries) ,
the Greater Western Library Alliance
(a
group of 31 research libraries located in the Midwest and Western states.) ,
the Association of Research Libraries and the Center
for Research Libraries.
Chinook Catalog provides access to the university's
collection, the holdings of most Colorado libraries and many library
systems nationwide, and to periodical and information databases.
For the latest reporting year 2003-2004,
based on the Association of Research
Library Statistics, the University Libraries ...
- total materials expenditure was $8,628,000
- rank 52nd out of 113
reporting research libraries
- have 3,484,982 volumes in our
collections, ranking us 41 among the 125 largest North American
research libraries
- currently subscribe to 20,677 journals,
both print and electronic
- have 974,720 cataloged government documents,
plus millions of uncataloged documents and rank 10th out of 125
ARL libraries.
- hold 6,756,506 resources that are in microform
format which places us in 14th position
For the University Libraries statistical history, see ARL
Statistics 1985-2004 (xls).
For more information about the Libraries, contact the Dean's
Office.
For more information about the UC-Boulder campus, see Just
the Facts.
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