Overview of the Virginia Tech Libraries
For an overview of services offered at Newman Library, take a tour.
The University Libraries supports the university mission by:
- selecting, organizing, and providing convenient access to information resources needed by the learning, teaching, research, and outreach community of Virginia Tech,
- providing direct assistance and learning opportunities that encourage the development of those information competencies necessary for educational, professional, and personal growth in a knowledge-based society,
- preserving access to selected library resources of significant scholarly value for the research community,
- providing a comfortable infrastructure of spaces and technologies for the discovery, exchange, and advancement of ideas.
Established in 1872 with 500 volumes, the library now includes holdings of more than 2,000,000 volumes physically located in Newman Library and the branches:
- Art & Architecture
- Veterinary Medicine
- Northern Virginia Resource Service Center
- and a high-density storage building.
The university community also has access to a large and continuously expanding collection of electronic databases and full content journals provided by the library.
The library is a selective depository for federal documents and is an invited member of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL).
Library Reports:
Strategic plans
Annual Reports
- 2006-2007
- 2005-2006
- 2004-2005
- 2003-2004
- 2002-2003
- 2001-2002
- 2000-2001
- 1999-2000
- 1998-1999
- 1997-1998
- 1996-1997
- 1995-1996
University Library Committee Minutes
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