Facts and Figures
Emory Libraries in Atlanta, Georgia serves as the intellectual commons for Emory University, with collections including 6.2 million volumes, 517,000 electronic journals, 2 million electronic books, and internationally renowned special collections.
Emory's Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library is home to more than 200,000 volumes and 22, linear feet of original manuscripts. These holdings span more than 800 years of history, with particular depth in modern literature, African-American history and culture, and the history of Georgia and the South. The Pitts Theology Library also houses a large special collection which includes 159,000 rare and special volumes and 3,700 cubic feet of archival and manuscript material. These holdings include rich collections in Reformation history, Methodism and Wesleyana, hymnody and psalmody, English Religious history, SubSaharan Africa, haggadot, and historical editions of the Bible.
Emory Libraries comprise 15 distinct libraries and locations. These include the Robert W. Woodruff Library, which is also home to Goizueta Business Library, Heilbrun Music and Media Library, and Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. The Woodruff Health Sciences Library, located on Emory University campus administers clinical branch libraries at Emory University Hospital, Grady Hospital, Emory at Midtown Hospital, and Emory St. Joseph's Hospital. Other campus libraries include Pitts Theology Library, Hugh F. MacMillan Law Library, the Science Commons, the Library Service Center operated in collaboration with the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Oxford College Library located on Oxford Campus approximately 30 miles east of Atlanta.