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Academic library

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An academic library is a library that is attached to a higher education institution and serves two complementary purposes: to support the curriculum and the research of the university faculty and students.[1] It is unknown how many academic libraries there are worldwide. An academic and research portal maintained by UNESCO links to 3,785 libraries. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, there are an estimated 3,700 academic libraries in the United States.[1] In the past, the material for class readings, intended to supplement lectures as prescribed by the instructor, has been called reserves. Previously before the electronic appliances became available, the reserves were supplied as actual books or as photocopies of appropriate journal articles. Modern academic libraries generally also provide access to electronic resources.

Academic libraries must determine a focus for collection development since comprehensive collections are not feasible. Librarians do this by identifying the needs of the faculty, student body, the mission and academic programs of the college or university. When there are particular areas of specialization in academic libraries, these are often referred to as niche collections. These collections are often the basis of a special collection department and they may include original papers, artwork, and artifacts written or created by a single author or about a specific subject.

There is a great deal of variation among academic libraries based on their size, resources, collections, and services. The Harvard University Library is considered to be the largest strict academic library in the world,[2] although the Danish Royal Library—a combined national and academic library—has a larger collection.[3] Another notable example is the University of the South Pacific which has academic libraries distributed throughout its twelve member countries.[1] The University of California operates the largest academic library system in the world, managing more than 40.8 million print volumes across 100 libraries on ten campuses.[4]

The Round Reading Room of the Maughan Library, the main academic library of King's College London.
University Library Leiden, the Netherlands, in 1694. La nouvelle bibliothèque, from Les delices de Leide, une des célèbres villes de l'Europe, Leiden: P. van der Aa, 1712.
The Old Library of Keio University in Tokyo, Japan.
  1. ^ a b c Curzon, Susan; Jennie Quinonez-Skinner (9 September 2009). Academic Libraries. pp. 11–22. doi:10.1081/E-ELIS3-120044525. ISBN 978-0-8493-9712-7. Retrieved 10 September 2013 – via Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences.
  2. ^ Pezzi, Bryan (2000). Massachusetts. Weigl Publishers. p. 15. ISBN 978-1-930954-35-9.
  3. ^ "Årsberetning 2015" (PDF) (in Danish). 2015. Retrieved 28 August 2017.
  4. ^ Westbrook, Danielle Watters; Chua, Kristen. "Facts and Figures – UC Libraries". UC Libraries. Archived from the original on 1 December 2022. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
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