Mugar Memorial Library
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The Mugar Memorial Library is the primary library for study, teaching, and research in the humanities and social sciences for Boston University. It was opened in 1966. Stephen Mugar, an Armenian immigrant who was successful in the grocery business, provided the naming gift to commemorate his parents.
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[edit] Branch libraries
- African Studies Library - located on the sixth floor of the Mugar Memorial Library building
- Michael D. Papagiannis Astronomy Library
- George H. Beebe Communications Library
- Pickering Educational Resources Library
- Frederick S. Pardee Management Library
- Music Library
- Science and Engineering Library
[edit] The other major Boston University libraries and the Archives
[edit] Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center
The University's rare book and manuscript collections are held in the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University, formerly called the Twentieth Century Archives. The Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center is housed in the Mugar Library and is open to the public for research and viewing. The Center also includes a large display area where examples of its holdings are on displayed.
Research scholars must make appointments at least two days in advance to use papers from the collections.
Among the holdings of the Gotlieb Archive are included Isaac Asimov's personal papers from 1965 onward, where they fill 464 boxes on 232 feet (71 meters) of shelf space
[edit] Pappas Law Library
The Pappas Law Library provides scholarly resources, collections and services to support the research needs of the students and faculty at Boston University School of Law as well as other legal researchers at Boston University. The law library contains federal and state primary legal materials; major serials, treatises and other secondary materials; legal documents and reports and international law materials.
[edit] Medical Library
The Alumni Medical Library serves as the library and knowledge-based literature and information provider to the faculty, staff, and students of Boston University Schools of Medicine, Dental Medicine, Public Health, and the Boston Medical Center.
[edit] School of Theology Library
The collections of the School of Theology are developed in concert with those of Mugar Memorial Library. The School of Theology library concentrates on theology, Bible, church history, ministry, and historic Judaism, while Mugar collects in comparative religion and the academic disciplines of religion, philosophy, sociology, including contemporary Jewish life and culture.
[edit] External links and references
- Boston University Libraries Mugar is the main but not only Boston University library.
- Mugar Memorial Library
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