Harold B. Lee Library

Harold B. Lee Library
Library main entrance at night
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40°14′57″N 111°38′57″W / 40.24917°N 111.64917°W / 40.24917; -111.64917
LocationProvo, Utah, United States
TypeAcademic library
Established1925 (1925)
Collection
Size4.76 million volumes, 10.68 million total materials (2016)[1]
Access and use
Circulation372,845 (2016)[2]
Population servedBrigham Young University
Other information
DirectorRick Anderson[3]
Employees376 (2016)[1]
Websitelib.byu.edu

The Harold B. Lee Library (HBLL) is the main academic library of Brigham Young University (BYU) located in Provo, Utah. The library started as a small collection of books in the president's office in 1876 before moving in 1891. The Heber J. Grant Library building was completed in 1925, and in 1961 the library moved to the newly constructed J. Reuben Clark Library where it stands today. That building was renamed to the Harold B. Lee Library in 1974.[4]

The library was significantly expanded in the 1990s, providing new individual and group study rooms and a special vault area for the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Library. In 2016, the library contained over 4.7 million books, 10.6 million total materials, and served over 10,000 patrons each day. The library was ranked by the Princeton Review within the top three university libraries in the United States four times: in 2004, 2007, 2012, and 2023.[5]

  1. ^ a b "Library Statistics (General)" (PDF). Brigham Young University. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
  2. ^ "Library Statistics (Circulation)" (PDF). Brigham Young University. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
  3. ^ Ipson, Natalie (2 July 2020). "Rick Anderson named university librarian at BYU". News. BYU Communications. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  4. ^ "History of the Library". BYU Library. Brigham Young University. Retrieved 27 August 2020.
  5. ^ "Best College Library | The Princeton Review". www.princetonreview.com. Retrieved 2023-08-16.

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