- More than 7.3 million printed volumes
- 55,000 serial titles
- 6.2 million microforms
- 160 linear feet of manuscripts
- Over 7 million items in other formats, including government documents, maps, musical scores and more
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On The James Hardiman Library
NUIG has one central library (they also have one for medical and nursing students, I believe, though over with the hospital), the James Hardiman Library. To see what the inside looks like, here are maps of the ground floor, first floor, and second floor (see the "Pure Sciences" area? that's where my books are for botany and oceanography, and that's where I go to study). To see what the exterior looks like (and to give you a feel for just how terribly small the place is), NUIG put up a wannabe-impressive photo of the place here. As it says, "The Library provides 8,500 square metres of space on three floors and contains approximately 1,600 reader places. Collections exceed 620,000 bound volumes with 50% of these on open access shelves." I guess they've never seen Madison's library system. Madison has the 11th largest research collection in North American with over 40 libraries and with, they say,
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Yes, our library is the same! And has limited hours! And it's smaller than Wendt even, I think.... Well, I haven't seen the medical library, but I suspect it isn't huge either. Although supposedly it'd the biggest science library in Northern Sweden... which probably doesn't say much.
I like the Ramsey County library in Roseville. They have an excellent kids' section.
I like the Ramsey County library in Roseville too, though not particularly for the kids' section. It is good, but I just like it in general. It's a very social place, not like a school library though. So different qualities are important.
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