The Library

The University's library, with its ten divisions, is one of the largest libraries in Armenia. There are specialized reading rooms in a number of faculties with collections that are constantly enhanced by the further addition of academic and scholarly literature. To better serve readers an interlibrary loan system was created. There is a division for old and rare book editions where old and rare books dating from the beginning of the 17th century are kept.

Over 14,000 readers, students, lecturers, post-graduates, researchers and other affiliates of the University have access to the University collection of approximately two million books.

There are 12 reading rooms with 1100 seats available to readers. Among the University's 100 partners in the international exchange of books are the United States Library of Congress, the National Library of the Russian Federation ,and university and academic libraries in the United States, France, England, Germany, Italy, Argentina and elsewhere.

In 1989 the Library received an award as a first-rate scholarly library.

University History Museum

The Museum of Yerevan State University History was founded in 1961. Its purpose is to exhibit the large contribution that the University has made in training highly-qualified specialists and in promoting scholarship in Armenia.

The Museum has an exhibition room, a lecture hall, a film, photograph and videotape archive, an audiotape collection, and a library.

The Museum staff collects, develops and explicates materials to the University's history. The Museum preserves rare books, autographed scholarly works, and recordings of lectures and memoirs of noted professors and also important archival documents, photographs and film relating to the University's history.

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