Library

The Mary Alice and Tom O’Malley Library provides support for the instructional and research needs of the students, faculty, staff, and adminstrators of the College, and provides access to approximately 230,000 volumes, 3,000 media items, and 20,000 periodical titles in various formats. The books and media are listed in the JASPERcat online catalog, which also links to catalogs of other area libraries. The Manhattan College Library website provides access to a large number of academic databases and serves as a gateway to the Internet. Off-campus access to the library’s online resources, including many full-text journals, is available to Manhattan College students, faculty, staff, and administrators who are validly registered with the library. To obtain materials not in the college library, patrons may request interlibrary loan service or they may make on-site use of New York City and Westchester County libraries through METRO, a regional library network.

The Manhattan College Library facilities include 85,000 square feet of new and renovated space, more than 100 public computers, wired and wireless work stations, an electronic classroom, 16 group study rooms, media viewing and listening stations, an Internet Café, and a climate-controlled facility for the archives of the College and the De La Salle Christian Brothers of New York and New England.

Librarians are scheduled at the reference desk to provide information and research assistance and are also available by appointment. Librarians teach information literacy classes designed to help students articulate an information need, access and evaluate sources, use the results to create a paper or presentation, and to understand some of the legal and ethical issues involved in using information.

The library is a 24/7 facility while fall and spring classes are in session. For more information about library hours, resources, or services go to www.manhattan.edu and select Library or call (718) 862-7166.