Library Information
& Publications

About the Old Dominion
University Libraries

The Old Dominion University Libraries are comprised of the Patricia W. and J. Douglas Perry Library, the F. Ludwig Diehn Composers Room, and the Elise N. Hofheimer Art Library. Together, they provide a full complement of state-of-the-art services for all clientele. It contains over 2 million items--monographs, government publications, periodicals and serials, microforms, musical scores, recordings, electronic resources, and maps--which are currently accessible through an online catalog produced by Innovative Interfaces, Inc. Catalog workstations are located throughout the Library. The catalog can be searched from remote locations on the campus and off campus, via modem or the Internet.

Many other electronic resources are also available via the Internet, including over 100 searchable databases provided through the Virtual Library of Virginia (VIVA). Certain resources are available from workstations in the Reference Department: CD-ROM indexes to journal literature; government publications and statistics on CD-ROM; ProQuest databases which offer indexing to general, business, and academic research publications; and online database searching through DIALOG. Interlibrary loan services with online access to the collections of more than 10,000 libraries throughout the world are available to faculty and students from the Interlibrary Loan Office.

The library's collections are organized by the Library of Congress classification: circulating books are located on the third and fourth floors; periodicals and microforms on the second; reference, government publications, circulation, and reserves on the first floor. The Administrative Offices are housed on the second floor, with Bibliographic Services on the fourth and Systems Development on the first.  Photocopy machines are located throughout the library. Microformat duplication services are available in the areas where these collections are housed.

Two branch libraries are housed in the Diehn Fine & Performing Arts Building: the Elise Hofheimer Art Library and the Diehn Composers Room.