About the Libraries

The St. Lawrence libraries make available to students and faculty almost 1.5 million items, including more than 576,000 books, approximately 417,000 government documents, 1,900 print subscriptions, 597,000 microform units and over 6,100 videos. In addition to these local print and microform resources, the St. Lawrence libraries provide access to the world’s scholarship by means of a library Web page that connects St. Lawrence students and faculty to collections and resources available through the World Wide Web. This year it is possible to search more than 123+ networked bibliographic databases as well as over 20,000 online full-text periodicals from any location on or off campus. For an online view of the libraries’ services and collections, visit the library Web page at www.stlawu.edu/library.

Library Facilities
Even as the St. Lawrence University libraries’ staff have aggressively added scholarly resources in digital form to the already substantial print collections, they have also attempted to create physical spaces that support both research and instruction. Thus, Owen D. Young Library, renovated in 1999, includes electronic classrooms and group study space dedicated to the teaching mission of the library. Highlights of the six-million-dollar ODY renovation include:

• Three new electronic classrooms, equipped with workstations and state-of-the-art teaching equipment for hands-on learning. When the classrooms are not scheduled for class use, they are available for student use.
• Fourteen new group study/seminar rooms available for individual and group use.
• Two hundred new seats in locations that are “wired” for network and Internet access; in
  the academic year 2005-2006, the library went “wireless” on all three levels. Seating is available in Owen D. Young (ODY) and Launders Libraries to roughly one-half of the student body at any given time.

In addition to ODY, which houses the college’s major collections in the social sciences and humanities, Launders Science Library (opened in 1994) provides a home to the science and technology collections at St. Lawrence. The science library occupies the upper two floors of Madill Hall and triples the space available for science resources and services. Highlights of this space include many attractive group studies, a seminar room with a projector for online instruction, a map room and a new geographic information system (GIS) lab. Launders is “wireless” as well.