The University of Chicago Library is the
library
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system of the
University of Chicago
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, located on the university's campus in
Chicago
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, Illinois, United States. It is the
seventh largest academic library and the fourth largest private library in the United States, with over 11.9 million volumes as of 2019.
The library also holds 65,330 linear feet of archives and manuscripts and 245 terabytes of born-digital archives, digitized collections, and research data.
The library has borrowing privileges with several other archives, museums, and libraries in the Chicago area, including the Art Institute of Chicago Library, the Chicago History Museum, Fermilab, the Field Museum of Natural History, and the Newberry Library.
The library was founded by president of the University of Chicago,
William Rainey Harper, who set the course for Special Collections as a “working collection” in 1891. The library's collections are located in six sites: the
Joseph Regenstein Library, the
John Crerar Library, the D'Angelo
Law Library
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, the
Joe and Rika Mansueto Library, the Eckhart Library for mathematics and computer science, and the Social Work Library.
See also
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University of Chicago
The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, or UChi) is a Private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its main campus is in the Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, Chic ...
References
Further reading
* ARCHER, HORACE RICHARD. "SOME ASPECTS OF THE ACQUISITION PROGRAM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LIBRARY, 1892-1928" (PhD dissertation, The University of Chicago; ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1954. T-02599).
* Dorf, A. "The University of Chicago Libraries : A Historical Note" ''Library Quarterly'' 4 (April 1934 ):185-197.
* FREISINGER, JUDITH. "A PROGRAM FOR LIBRARY SERVICES AT BILLINGS LIBRARY, THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO (ILLINOIS)" (PhD dissertation, The University of Chicago; ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1977. TM26375).
* THACKERY, DAVID THOMAS. "THE FAR EASTERN LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, 1936--1978 (ILLINOIS)" (Thesis, The University of Chicago; ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1983. TM28713).
External links
The University of Chicago LibraryThe University of Chicago Libraryat the Digital Library Federation
Guide to the University of Chicago Library Office of the Director, Ernest Dewitt Burton and J. C. M. Hanson, Records 1910-1928at th
University of Chicago Special Collections Research CenterGuide to the University of Chicago Library Office of the Director, M. Llewellyn Raney, Ralph A. Beals and Allen T. Hazen, Records 1894-1959
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University and college academic libraries in the United States
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