Collections

Students and faculty have access to over 1,000,000 books, CDs, DVDs, videos, and nearly 22,000 current journals, electronically and in paper. Over 300 databases, many of which include the full text of journal articles, are available through the library's website. Examples of popular databases are LexisNexis, Business Source Premier, and PsycINFO.

Particular collections include Texas, United States, and European Community documents; the Archives of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition; the papers of former Speaker of the House, James C. Wright, Jr.; the papers of Amon G. Carter, Sr.; the University's historical collection; and special collections of rare books and manuscripts such as the William Luther Lewis Collection of English and American Literature.

We encourage you to participate in building the Library's collections by requesting new purchases.

• Among the general collections, areas of particular emphasis include American history, English and British literature, psychology, mathematics, and business.
  
  

• Distinct entities among the Library’s collections are the Brite Divinity School Library and the W.B. “Judge” Hamilton Audio Visual Resource Center.
  
  
• Government Information
  
  
• The Library has been a depository for Federal and Texas State documents for almost ninety years and portions of the collection date as far back as the eighteenth century. The Library was designated a European Union Documentation Centre in 1996.
  
  
• The Library affords access to everyone seeking government information, even to files which are in an electronic format.
  
  

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