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.
Facts about our collections
Total holdings of the NU Libraries as of June 30, 2008:
- 986,231 printed volumes
- 119,078 e-books
- 2,399,716 microforms
- 5,641 current serials subscriptions
- 31,031 licensed electronic journals
- 23,273 audio, video, and computer software items
- 158,623 printed government documents
- 4,791 linear ft. of archival and manuscript collections
More information about library resources for individual subjects may be found in our subject guides
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- 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
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.