Rainbow over Lied Library, looking northwest. A UNLV 50th anniversary banner is seen in front of the library
Lied Library - Facility
Dedicated: January 2001
Architect of Record: Welles Pugsley Architects
Design Architect: Leo A. Daly
Cost: $55.3 million
- 302,000 square feet - equivalent to 6.9 acres
- 153,000 linear feet or over 28 miles of shelving
- 2 million volume capacity when LASR is at full build-out
- 800 data drops & opportunities to connect laptops to the network
- 317 public desktop computer workstations
- 18 laptops and a portable projector available for checkout within the building
- 4 instructional rooms (2 electronic and 2 multi-purpose)
- 16 group study rooms
- 4 media viewing rooms
- 13 public photocopiers
- University Teaching and Learning Center, Honors College and the Graduate student study/lounge
- The Book 'n' Bean Café
Lied Library - Collections
- Over 950,600 volumes
- Approximately 7,950 serial subscriptions, including those in electronic form, and over 5,500 additional government documents collection serials
- Over 1,744,895 microforms
- Nearly 13,500 VHS, DVD, Laserdiscs, Audio Cassettes and CD-ROMs
- More than 20,000 maps
- 1.1 million state and federal government documents.