{"id":2548,"date":"2020-10-13T14:42:10","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T14:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/developmenttwo.marymount.edu\/academics\/?page_id=2548"},"modified":"2025-12-10T11:52:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T16:52:50","slug":"library-collections","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marymount.edu\/academics\/library-learning-services\/library-collections\/","title":{"rendered":"Library Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Emerson G. Reinsch Library collection supports the University\u2019s academic programs as well as the varied information needs of its student, faculty, staff and community users. In addition to print materials, the library provides access to a wide selection of licensed online information resources such as e-journals, article indexes and reference tools.<\/p>\n
Marymount University is a member of the Washington Research Library Consortium<\/a> (WRLC), which allows eligible patrons to borrow materials from most of the academic libraries in the Washington, DC area. Use the MULibrary Search<\/a> to find materials such as books, journals, streaming videos and DVDs owned by Marymount and other WRLC member libraries.<\/p>\n The Marymount collection consists of more than 389,000 volumes in print or electronic format. Most of the library\u2019s print collections are housed on the main campus in the Emerson G. Reinsch Library, though there are less frequently used materials at the WRLC Shared Collections Facility.<\/p>\n Library & Learning Services subscribes to more than 180 online information resources with access to more than 90,000 electronic journals, streaming videos, and e-books. Marymount students, faculty, and staff can search periodicals and reference sources in the <\/span>library databases<\/a> from on or off campus to find full-text articles, images, videos, and more.<\/span> L&LS provides access to e-books through EBSCOhost, JSTOR, ebrary, <\/span>CRCnetBASE<\/span>, <\/span>and others. To find Electronic Books and Shared Electronic Books available to Marymount users on a topic, limit your keyword search in the <\/span>MULibrary Search <\/a>to MU Catalog and then select Electronic Books from the Subject filter under Refine Your Results.<\/span> Full-text access to articles in electronic journals is available through most of our database subscriptions. Search the <\/span>MU E-Journal Finder<\/a> to determine if a periodical is available in full text.<\/span><\/p>\n General reference databases include dictionaries, encyclopedias, and statistical information, and most are linked under <\/span>Electronic Reference<\/a> on the <\/span>Articles & Databases<\/a> page. Numerous subject reference works are available through the library catalog in e-book format. <\/span><\/p>\n Search the <\/span>MULibrary Search<\/a> for streaming videos on a variety of subjects, including news, plays, advertising, American history, education, nursing, psychology, and counseling. To search each platform, look for the <\/span>Streaming Media<\/a> tab on the <\/span>Articles & Databases<\/a> page.<\/span> The <\/span>Digital Collections<\/a> consist of MU yearbooks, artifacts, and faculty and student scholarship. Access to some documents is limited to Marymount students, faculty, and staff.<\/span><\/p>\nPrint Resources<\/h2>\n
Online Resources<\/h2>\n
Databases: Articles, E-Books, Electronic Reference, and Streaming Media<\/h3>\n
<\/span><\/p>\nE-Books<\/h4>\n
<\/span><\/p>\nE-Journals<\/h4>\n
Electronic Reference<\/h4>\n
Streaming Media<\/h4>\n
<\/span><\/p>\nMarymount Digital Collections<\/h3>\n