The University Libraries' system is housed on five campuses
including Queens, Staten Island, Manhattan, Oakdale and Rome. The
Libraries:
- Are committed to teaching and learning by providing resources
and instruction;
- House collections across all five campuses – numbering more
than 1.5 million items, including books, periodicals, microforms,
and audiovisual materials;
- House, at the Queens Library, a selective depository for U.S.
government documents;
- Include the Chin Ying Asian Library, containing an
excellent selection of Asian-language materials as well as English
materials supporting Asian Studies;
- Are proud to number among their collections the Reference
Art File, a unique collection containing art exhibition and auction
catalogs from the late 1960s through the early 1980s;
- Are home to an Instructional Materials Center, containing
pre-K-12 curriculum materials;
- Also make available the Special Collections, which include the
Governor Hugh L. Carey Collection as well as the William M. Fischer
Lawn Tennis Library and the University Archives.
In addition to traditional materials, computers located
throughout each library provide access, including wireless access,
to a wide variety of electronic resources. These include the
catalogs of the St. John's Libraries; the catalogs of more than two
dozen consortium libraries; bibliographic and electronic full-text
databases; and more. These resources are available both on and off
campus via the web. In addition, cooperative arrangements with
other libraries provide regional, national and international access
to materials through Interlibrary Services.