Fast Facts About the Libraries
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Encompassing more than 150,000 square feet, the Libraries include:- Main Library
- Archives & Special Collections Library
- Art Library
- George Sherman Dickinson Music Library
Collections
- More than 1 million volumes
- Access to 70,000 serial, periodical, and newspaper titles
- More than 50,000 rare book volumes
- More than 500 archival and manuscript collections
- More than 15,000 video recordings
- More than 25,000 musical scores
- More than 30,000 sound recordings
Research and services
- Almost 300,000 in-person visitors to the libraries each year
- Over 350,000 page visits to the website home page per year
- Over 3.1 million searches per year in the Vassar Library Catalog
- Over 100,000 circulation transactions per year
- Vassar’s Interlibrary Loan program lends almost 20,000 items to other institutions and borrows more than 12,000 volumes per year