Our state-of-the-art Brody Learning Commons is聽designed to encourage聽technology-driven and collaborative learning
As America鈥檚 first research university, we take learning seriously, and we have the libraries and study spaces to help fuel discovery鈥攆rom the stately Hutzler Reading Room to the open and modern Brody Learning Commons.
The Brody Learning Commons opened in 2012 and was built with our students in mind. A focal point of activity (both studious and social), it contains 16 group study rooms, a 75-seat caf茅, a 100-seat quiet reading room, and the thing our students told us they wanted more than anything else鈥�lots of natural light. The 24/7 building is also environmentally friendly and was by the U.S. Green Building Council.
The adjacent (and more traditional) is the main research for the university. Home to our incredibly helpful librarians (the original search engines), the stacks, and our impressive collection of rare books and manuscripts, the library is one of the most heavily used buildings on campus.
The , also known as 鈥渢he cathedral of books,鈥� holds some 300,000 volumes, mostly from the 18th and 19th centuries, and is routinely ranked among the most beautiful libraries in the world. The ornate, cast-iron balconies rise to a latticed skylight above a black-and-white-marble-floored atrium, providing an Instagram-worthy and inspiring place to connect to the past.
With spaces both traditional and modern, and world-class resources鈥攆rom rare books to the latest electronic databases and millions of print volumes鈥攖he university libraries help make discovery possible around the clock, across our campuses, and around the world.
The Sheridan Libraries
鈥攎ade up of the Brody Learning Commons, the and its collections at the Albert D. Hutzler Reading Room in Gilman Hall, the at Evergreen, and the at Mount Vernon Place鈥攑rovide the major research library resources for the university. Together they contain more than 3.7 million books and provide round-the-clock access to a rich collection of electronic resources, including more than 171,000 print and e-journals, and more than 900,000 e-books.
Other university libraries:
- (Peabody Institute)
- (East Baltimore campus)
- (East Baltimore campus)
- (School of Nursing)
- (SAIS)
