Library

The Schuyler Otis Bland Memorial Library is the Academy’s major information resource center. The library supplies midshipmen, faculty and staff with a wide range of materials and services, which can also benefit visiting researchers. There is seating for 300 users, including special conference rooms and study areas.

Designed to support the curriculum, the library book collection of over 180,000 volumes provides a broad range of information on the subjects studied at the Academy, with an extensive concentration of information
and special collections on maritime subjects, both modern and historical.

Available at the library is a great deal of information in other formats: periodicals, sea charts, magazines and newspapers on microfilm, research reports on microfiche, computers and computer software, video and audio cassette tapes, files of engineering data, specialized indexes, compact discs, CDROMs, computerized data bases, and an online
public access catalog.

The library has on-line access to over 450 computer data bases in many disciplines, including science, technology, the social sciences, and the humanities. Its CD-ROM holdings include full texts of newspapers and many types of government documents. As part of its broad role as a resource center, the library
also serves as a conference site for Academy programs. The library’s premier conference facility, the Crabtree Conference Room, provides a comfortable setting for a wide variety of maritime and scholarly activities attended by midshipmen, faculty and staff.

For more information please visit the Library web site