Rainbow over Lied Library, looking northwest. A UNLV 50th anniversary banner is seen in front of the library

Lied Library - Facility

• 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.