Library (Grand Rapids)
Frey Foundation Learning Center (Grand Rapids)
Curriculum Materials Library (Grand Rapids)
The university libraries offer opportunities for research, collaboration, and individual study. Collectively, the libraries subscribe to over 60,000 print and electronic journals. They also house more than 1,482,633 books including more than 829,463 electronic books.
Construction the Mary Idema Pew Library on the Allendale campus was finished in 2013. The building is named after the late Mary Idema Pew. The $70 million, 140,000-square-foot (13,000 m2) facility holds 150,000 books. It also has an automated storage and retrieval system that can handle 600,000 volumes. The U.S. Department of Energy announced the library used part of the $21 million allocated for technical assistance projects to improve energy use in commercial buildings. The library was one of only 24 projects in the United States receiving the assistantships that was funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
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