Library Holdings Specific to Europe

The Library's holdings of European materials include over 60,000 title in European history and 144,000 titles in European languages and literatures, to mention only those disciplines easy to track through the classification system. In all disciplines in 1997 the non-English European languages most heavily represented were German, French, Russian, Spanish and Italian (each with 16,000 or more titles); Portuguese, Swedish, and Dutch (with 1100 or more titles each); and Norwegian, Danish, Polish, and Serbo-Croation (with more than 500 titles each).

The Library has been an active depository for publications and documents of the European Union since 1965, and supports the research use of that collection with the acquisition of relevant indexes, bibliographies, and EU databases. These are located in the Government Documents section of the main Knight Library, on the first floor.

The Library also has standing orders for publications of the United Nations, Council of Europe, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund and many other intergovernmental organizations. Most European nations are represented by their official statistical publications, central bank reports, and economic publications. The library has also acquired the parliamentary reports from the governments of the United Kingdom, France and Germany. All of these materials are available in the Government Documents section.

Free access to the Lexis-Nexis information network of current worldwide press sources is available to students for their research projects. The Library also provides multiple facilities for information technology support, including three electronic classroosm, a distance education center with satellite links, over 100 public Internet terminals, and electonic access to dozens of databases and thousands of journals.