College library rankings

mrego
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:54:01 +0000

Thanks everyone. Carleton and Oberlin sound like great places too.

I knew that I had seen those kind of numbers, but couldn’t find them. In these days when Harvard and Yale, if I recall correctly, are scanning all their volumes into a Google database most people (not me) probably don’t think libraries still matter that much. And obviously, a state university system can access books pretty easily so effectively you can draw on many libraries. I was especially curious where the largest 100 private university libraries were. Students in Baltimore/Wash. D.C. of course have easy access to the LOC (Library of Congress) and for federal publications there are depository libraries all around the country (some on university campuses). But without those other resources, it is interesting to see where investments have been made to provide sizeable on campus libraries.