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- At the Library7,087,079
- Online5,209,902
- On order11,742
- Archive/Manuscript40,906
- Archived website584
- Book8,210,877
- Database2,608
- Dataset1,526
- Equipment333
- Image367,898
- Journal/Periodical500,801
- Map190,990
- Music recording259,419
- Music score125,965
- Newspaper9,901
- Object2,095
- Software/Multimedia9,049
- Sound recording14,518
- Video148,160
- Archive of Recorded Sound53,914
- Art & Architecture (Bowes)129,949
- Business14,866
- Classics5,449
- David Rumsey Map Center19,806
- Earth Sciences (Branner)147,308
- East Asia312,558
- Education (Cubberley)56,663
- Engineering (Terman)6,694
- Green1,737,626
- Hoover Archives8,807
- Hoover Library286,955
- Lathrop305
- Law (Crown)288,789
- Marine Biology (Miller)21,236
- Media & Microtext Center292,476
- Medical (Lane)198,411
- Music147,130
- Philosophy (Tanner)5,434
- SAL Newark (off-campus storage)2,261
- SAL1&2 (on-campus shelving)443,902
- SAL3 (off-campus storage)2,889,083
- Science (Li and Ma)29,269
- Special Collections244,739
- Stanford Digital Repository627,634
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