College library rankings

kyledavid80
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:28:49 +0000

Update:

Stanford has roughly 8.5 million volumes.



There are nearly 1.5 million audiovisual materials, more than 75,000 current serials, thousands of digital resources and nearly 6 million microform holdings. Access to the libraries is extended to non-university users for seven days a year free of charge upon registration. Contact the Privileges Office at (650) 723-1492.

Special Collections and University Archives include about 260,000 rare or otherwise “special” books and 59 million pages of unpublished materials, including the archives, manuscripts, papers and correspondence of luminaries, scholars, technologists and writers; hundreds of thousands of archival photographs; corporate records and archives, with an emphasis on the Silicon Valley region and California history; and deep resources in Stanford’s own history.



[Libraries: Stanford University Facts](http://www.stanford.edu/about/facts/libraries.html)

So it’s solidly top 5-10, and top 5 for private universities.

JWT86: what do you mean by “cultural significance”? And what does decades-old news have to do with today?

I still would choose Yale’s or Harvard’s libraries over UT’s any day…