Collections
Recommend a purchase
(suggest a book)
The depth and breadth of our collections in a wide array of formats support coursework, research, and scholarship, as well as other needs and interests, of NU's students, faculty, and staff.
NU Libraries participate in a major digitization project
Soon, digitized versions of unique and rare books owned by Northeastern’s University Libraries and other New England libraries will be available to researchers, thanks to a major new digital project partnership between the Boston Library Consortium (BLC) and the Open Content Alliance.
Read the complete press release (MS Word)
View a list of...
- Foreign language newspapers and magazines
- New titles (updated weekly)
Search NuCat, our library catalog, for all books, videos and multimedia, ejournal titles, periodicals and newspapers, and archival collections
Facts about our collections
Total holdings of the NU Libraries as of June 30, 2007:
- 976,932 printed volumes
- 112,687 e-books
- 2,395,695 microforms
- 6,196 serials subscriptions
- 27,273 licensed electronic journals
- 158,623 government publications
- 4,568 cubic ft. of archival and manuscript collections
More information about library resources for individual subjects may be found in our subject guides
Recommendations for Purchase
We invite your recommendations for new acquisitions.
Please contact the appropriate subject specialist if you would like to discuss our collections in relation to your instruction and research.
Recreational Reading and Audio Books
Snell Library has a small circulating collection of current popular fiction, science fiction, how-to, popular biographies, and similar selections shelved for easy browsing on the first floor. These include Books on Tape.
