OBERLIN COLLEGE LIBRARY

Library Home Page: www.oberlin.edu/library Main Library 148 West College Street Phone: (440) 775-8285 Fax: (440)775-8739 Web Site: www.oberlin.edu/library/mudd/ Clarence Ward Art Library 83 North Main Street Phone: (440) 775-8635 Fax: (440)775-8969 Web Site: www.oberlin.edu/library/art/ Science Library 119 Woodland Street Phone: (440)775-5148 Fax: (440)775-5152 Web Site: www.oberlin.edu/library/science/ Conservatory of Music Library 77 West College Street Phone: (440)775-8280 Fax: (440)775-8203 Web Site: www.oberlin.edu/library/con/

Oberlin's library collection of books and periodicals, scores, government publications, sound and video recordings, and software contains over 2 million separate items. In addition, the library has access to a strong and growing collection of online resources. The collection is housed in facilities across campus, including the Main Library (Mudd), the Art Library, the Conservatory Library, and the Science Library. In addition, there is a 6-story storage facility in the Carnegie building.

Main Library
The Main Library is the primary location for materials in the humanities (with the exception of art and music), social sciences, mathematics, and computer science. It also houses interdisciplinary and general interest works, and a large collection of U.S. government publications. Special Collections, on the 4th floor of Mudd, houses works and collections of a rare, valuable, or fragile nature. Among the wide variety of materials in Special Collections are works on the anti-slavery movement, the making and playing of stringed instruments, materials written by and about Oberlin and Oberlinians, and the history of the book. Administrative and most technical services staff for the library system are located in the Main Library.

Clarence Ward Art Library
The Clarence Ward Art Library is located on the top floor of the Allen Art Building. The collection covers all of the visual arts fields including architecture, painting, sculpture, drawing, prints, photography, and the decorative arts, as well as related materials in such fields as anthropology, archeology, landscape architecture, and urban planning. The collection covers all periods, prehistoric through modern, and all nationalities, with special emphasis on Western, European, Chinese, Japanese, and American art.

Science Library
The Science Library, housed in the Science Center, is the location for current materials in the chemical, physical, earth, and life sciences including neuroscience, as well as materials on technical aspects of environmental science and biomedical aspects of psychology. Science-related materials of an interdisciplinary nature, such as history and philosophy of science, science education, science for the general reader, and most aspects of environmental studies, are housed in the Main Library.

Conservatory of Music Library
The Conservatory of Music Library, which is one of the finest music libraries in the country, is housed in the heart of the Conservatory of Music buildings. The collection includes a substantial foundation of Western music, music from all historical periods, complete editions of the works of major composers, and an ever-growing collection in the areas of women musicians and American, ethnic, contemporary jazz, folk, and popular music. In addition, the Conservatory Library provides access to listening stations equipped to play CDs, LPs, DAT tapes, and other audio cassettes, and listening/viewing rooms equipped to play video cassettes, DVDs, laser discs, reel-to-reel tapes, and LPs.

Services
For a complete list of services and resources, visit www.oberlin.edu/library/.