Brown University Library, one of the largest academic libraries in New England, provides access to the scholarly literature and information resources that Brown’s students and faculty need to achieve their academic goals, and also holds extensive special collections that are consulted by researchers from around the world.
Collections
Collections
The Library’s cutting-edge digital scholarship efforts engage faculty and students to create academic works in groundbreaking new forms and to support digital learning on campus and beyond.
The Library’s East Asian Collection supports research and instruction on China, Japan, Korea and beyond with an extensive and interdisciplinary array of resources in many formats and spanning centuries.
Music Collections at Brown support the scholarship, creative output, and individual and small-group applied music study of the Brown community.
Brown’s library collections include:
7 million +
books, ebooks, and rare volumes
1.5 million
archival files and records
500,000
pieces of sheet music
250,000
journals
180,000
broadsides, photographs, and prints
155,000
media resources
500
research databases
Through BorrowDirect, created by the Ivy-Plus Library Confederation, Brown students and faculty are also able to borrow from the approximately 90 million titles held at these other leading research universities, and library users can also obtain materials from libraries around the globe through the Library’s interlibrary loan service.