About the Libraries: Policies and Other Library Documents:
Library Facts and Figures

With holdings of over three million volumes, the Rutgers University Libraries rank among the nation's top research libraries. Comprised of twenty-six libraries, centers, and reading rooms located on Rutgers' campuses in New Brunswick/Piscataway, Camden, and Newark, and RU-Online, a digital library, the Libraries provide the resources and services necessary to support the university's mission of teaching, research, and service.

There are two large research libraries on the New Brunswick/Piscataway campuses: the Library of Science and Medicine, which houses the primary collections in behavioral, biological, earth and pharmaceutical sciences, and engineering; and the Archibald S. Alexander Library, which provides extensive humanities and social sciences collections. The Mabel Smith Douglass Library supports undergraduate education and houses the primary collections for women's studies and the performing arts. The Kilmer Library is the primary business library in New Brunswick and provides support for undergraduate instruction. There are also several specialized libraries and collections in the New Brunswick/Piscataway area including Alcohol Studies, Art, Stephen and Lucy Chang Science Library, Chemistry, East Asian, Mathematical Sciences, Music, Physics, and Special Collections and University Archives. The Scholarly Communication Center supports the development and integration of scholarly / scientific / educational information into the mainstream through a wide range of innovative digital services, while the Margery Somers Fosters Center is a resource center and digital archive on women, scholarship, and leadership.

A reading room for graduate students is located in the Alexander Library. In addition to study space, the Graduate Reading Room includes graduate reserve materials, a non-circulating collection of standard works in the social sciences and humanities, and locked carrels for students working on their dissertations.

The John Cotton Dana Library in Newark (which also houses the Institute of Jazz Studies) supports all undergraduate and graduate programs offered on the Newark campus with an emphasis on business, management, and nursing. The Robeson Library houses a broad liberal arts collection, which supports all undergraduate and graduate programs offered on the Camden campus. Law libraries are also located on both the Camden and Newark campuses and have separate policies and online catalogs. The law library at Newark houses the Don M. Gottfredson Library of Criminal Justice.

The Libraries provide numerous electronic resources to the Rutgers community. Library users can search the Library Catalog through the Libraries' website at http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/. The Library Catalog identifies materials owned by Rutgers libraries located in Camden, Newark, and New Brunswick/Piscataway, and contains records for most items acquired since 1972. Students, faculty, and staff can also access a wide variety of electronic indexes and abstracts, full-text electronic journals, research guides, and library services online, both from campus and remotely. The Libraries provide hundreds of CD-ROM titles in addition to online resources.

Rutgers University students, faculty, staff, and alumni are entitled to borrow materials from any of the Rutgers University Libraries. The Rutgers Delivery Service and Interlibrary Loan Service allow library users to request books and journal articles located at distant Rutgers libraries or outside the university. The loan period for faculty, staff, and graduate students is one full semester. All other borrowers, including undergraduate students, may keep materials for twenty-eight days. All materials, regardless of loan period or borrower's privileges, are subject to recall.

Librarians, many with advanced subject expertise, are available at all of the major libraries to assist with research projects, classroom instruction, and research strategies. In addition to individual instruction at the reference desk, librarians also provide in-class teaching at instructors' requests. Librarians are available to help with both online and print-based reference and subject searches.

The Libraries are committed to providing equal access to services and collections for all library patrons. Users with disabilities may request special services through the circulation or reference department in each library.

Library Statistics 2010/2011 (from the Annual Report)

Library Collections Total Volumes 3,656,283 Total Microforms 4,600,902 Total Documents 2,535,892 Volumes Added, Gross 33,619 Titles Catalogued 42,282 Current Print subscriptions 6,394 Current Electronic subscriptions 91,078

Library Services Circulation 543,627 Reference Questions 67,495 Ask A Librarian Service 12,911 Interlibrary Loan, Borrowed 34,648 Interlibrary Loan, Loaned 39,921 Rutgers Delivery Service 59,134 Library Classes Taught 926 Number Students Taught 21,657 Building Use 2,442,957