General Information

The Hunter College School of Social Work Library is a graduate and doctoral level branch of the Hunter College libraries. It occupies the second floor of the School of Social Work building at 129 East 79th Street. The Library's mission is to support the curriculum needs of the School of Social Work and to maintain a collection that reflects the wide interests and ongoing research in the field of social work. The Library's patrons are primarily the students of the School, but it is open to all students, faculty and staff of the City University of New York. In addition, it serves, both on its premises and through interlibrary loan, educational and special institutions throughout the city and country, according to various contractual multi-system Library agreements. These reciprocal agreements allow the School's students and faculty to have similarly extensive access to a multitude of collections. The Social Work Library is staffed by two professional librarians, two paraprofessionals and a cadre of student workers.

The Library's holdings consist of approximately 33,000 monographs, 137 journal titles, 94 videos, 92 journal titles on microfilm and 13 CD-ROM titles. The Library also has a collection of 164 doctoral dissertations and 360 master's theses dating from the years 1956-1975. The collection is regularly updated and every effort is made to ensure that library materials support the required readings of the School. The Library currently has eleven computer terminals, including eight with Internet access.