Services and Collections
The California State University, Northridge's Oviatt Library provides educational, cultural and information services and resources to the students and faculty. Its primary mission is to: support and supplement classroom and independent learning; facilitate student and faculty research; and provide students with lifelong skills in identifying, locating, evaluating and synchronizing information.
All library materials are housed in the Delmar T. Oviatt Library building, a 234,712-square-foot (21,805.5 m2) state-of-the-art facility. Of note are the 'Collaboratory' with its 175 multipurpose computer workstations, 3 computer equipped library instruction labs, and 150 computer workstations devoted to library information resources. There are over 1,600 seats for in house study. During Fall and Spring semesters, the building is open 90 hours a week. The Library provides access to online electronic information and archives 24 hours a day for students and the public at the Oviatt Library Digital Collections
The Oviatt Library has a physical collection containing 1.37 million volumes, of which over one million are books, and over 249,000 bound periodical volumes. The Library subscribes to 28,000 online journals, nearly 2,900 print journals, 200 online databases and approximately 32,000 e-books. The microform collection contains 3.17 million pieces. There are over 13,200 sound recordings, 11,300 film and video recordings and nearly 60,000 photographs and other graphic materials. The archives and manuscript collection exceeds 4,200 feet (1,300 m) of materials, with nearly 29,700 items housed in Special Collections. A special focus is the San Fernando Valley History Collection digital archives.
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