The library collection is a carefully curated representation of past and present scholarship, built to support teaching, study, and research in the disciplines of the Quinnipiac University curriculum. As scholarship changes and grows to reflect a more interdisciplinary and diverse world, so does the collection. It offers both historical depth in established fields of knowledge as well as current scholarship in new areas of research, and provides a wealth of information in formats ranging from print to digital to new streaming media. Graduate program in Law and the Health Sciences are supported by the Law and Netter Libraries.
The library is committed to improving the breadth of viewpoints and voices represented in its collection, and is actively working to ensure that new purchases encompass a wide-range of the human experience.
Collection Goals
If you have suggestions for resources to add to the library's collection, please reach out to us.
Digital Collections
The library provides research databases, ebooks and ejournals, accessible from anywhere in the world to the Quinnipiac community. Major resources include Academic Search Complete, Cinahl, JSTOR Journals, PsycInfo, and ScienceDirect among others (see a full list).
Specialized Physical Collections
Streaming only, individual titles purchased by request. Major resources include PBS Video and Kanopy Films.
The library accepts faculty requests to purchase required textbooks as the budget allows: preference will be given to expensive texts used for large introductory courses. Digital is the preferred format. No workbooks will be purchased. In general, the library does not purchase textbooks for the collection.
ABL collects material for all disciplines taught at the undergraduate level at Quinnipiac University. At this time, priority areas include books or other material about:
The library staff carefully considers the following when purchasing for the collection:
To recommend a book or database be purchased for the collection, please contact Kathleen.Bauer@quinnipiac.edu.
In the following instances books or other material will be removed from the ABL collection:
Material may be selected for storage in North Haven facility when:
When an item goes to storage, faculty, staff and students may request it for use. When the patron returns the item, it will be housed at ABL (not returned to storage).