The library's collections and services serve the IUP community, helping staff, faculty, and students achieve success. The information below is a quick snapshot of our collections, instruction, and reference services.
2021–22 Snapshot
Main Library
The Stapleton-Stabley Main Library holds our circulating book collection, audiovisual materials, print journal collections, reference collections, children's collection, and the university archives. Our electronic collections, including e-books and electronic journals, are available to students, faculty, and staff of IUP from anywhere in the world.
| Circulating Books | 366,551 |
| Reference Collection | 8,987 |
| Children's Collection | 26,767 |
| IUP Dissertations & Theses | 5,911 |
| Journals and Periodicals | 6,588 print / 138,262 electronic |
| E-books | 705,745 |
| Audiovisual Materials | 6,525 |
Research and Instruction Support
Our Reference and Research Services include both the Information Desk and our expert faculty librarians, who provide telephone, chat, in-person, and email research and reference support to the IUP community.
The Information Desk is the first point of support for library users, as well as anyone calling the University for information or assistance, while faculty librarians respond to all chat, email, and on-call, in-person research support questions.
IUP librarians also provide information literacy instruction to students of all levels, and custom-tailored research guides to support student and faculty research and coursework.
| Information Literacy Instruction | 64 sessions reaching 1,352 students |
| Information Desk Questions | 4,342 |
| Librarian Research Support Sessions | 174 |
| Email / Chat Reference Questions | 601 |
Special Collections and University Archives
The IUP Libraries Special Collections and University Archives houses IUP historic documents, manuscripts, rare books, and a vast collection of images. Our special focus on Pennsylvania history, and an excellent collection of rare, first-edition works, make our Special Collections a unique and powerful research resource.
| Archival Collections | 145 record groups (3,000 linear feet) 249 manuscript groups (7,235 linear feet) |
|---|---|
| Pennsylvania Collection and Rare Books | 30,000 volumes, including first edition works by Geoffrey Chaucer, Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jules Verne, and H.G. Wells |
| Photographs and Images | 650,000 |
Orendorff Music Library
The Orendorff Music Library, located in Cogswell Hall, is where you'll find our superb music collections. Thousands of scores, recordings, and circulating works are complemented by unique specialized research collections.
| Monuments and Collected Editions | 11,433 |
|---|---|
| Reference Works | 7,386 |
| Circulating Books | 11,410 |
| Scores | 32,340 |
| Sound Recordings | 12,981 |
| Specialized Collections | Charles Davis Collection of Jazz and Musical Theatre Edward R. Sims Collection of Ethnic Musical Instruments Albert R. Casavant Research Collection |