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The Merrill-Cazier Library is that the intellectual center of Utah State University. As both a physical and virtual destination, we create collaborative, engaging environments for learning and scholarship. Learn more about the Library's strategic mission.

The USU Libraries provide access to almost 2 million print books and journals, 7,600,000 e-books (including over 7 million within the HathiTrust Digital Library), 480,000 government publications, and over 60,000 electronic journals. The USU Special Collections and Archives contain rare book and manuscript collections, western and Mormon historical documents, the university archive of USU, and therefore the Fife Folklore Archives, one of the largest repositories of yank folklore within the us . Many rare items have been digitized and are available online in the Libraries' Digital History Collections and Online Exhibits.

In addition to the Merrill-Cazier Library, services are provided at the USU Eastern and USU Blanding campus libraries, the Anne Carroll Moore Library of the Edith Bowen Laboratory School (children’s books), the Young Education Technology Center (curriculum and teacher preparatory materials), the Intermountain Herbarium, the Quinney Natural Resources Library in the Quinney College of Natural Resources.

The USU Libraries are a member of the Utah Academic Library Consortium (UALC) and Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA). For more information, read our accreditation information.

History :

The Merrill–Cazier Library opened in September 2005. The building integrated the Cazier Science and Technology Library with a 189,000-square-foot (17,600 m2) expansion, replacing the 74-year-old Merrill Library.The library is known as for Milton R. Merrill, former Utah State University vice chairman , and Stanford Cazier, former Utah State University president.

The original Merrill Library was inbuilt 1930 by the Whitmeyer Company of Ogden, Utah and expanded in 1967.[4] A second library, the Cazier Science and Technology Library, was added to campus in 1995.[5]

The Merrill–Cazier Library recently marked its 100th anniversary as a regional us Government document depository.

The Building :

A central atrium connects the previous Cazier Science and Technology library with the new construction allowing the 2 to figure together .The library is 305,000-square-foot (28,300 m2), about the same because the previous two libraries combined, using technological innovations, the new library may be a more functional building.

Recently labeled a "Smart Library" by Campus Technology magazine, the Merrill–Cazier Library offers a technology-rich environment with frequency identification tags (RFID), a self check-out system, an on site automated retrieval system, the knowledge Commons consisting of 150 computer workstations, group school rooms of which 14 are equipped with computers and enormous screen LCD displays, two multimedia suites, and two library instruction rooms with over 60 workstations.

BARN :

BARN as viewed from basement.

An automated storage and retrieval system (ASRS) is an integral part of the building and allows for many years of collection development.Designed and built by Daifuku of America at its North American Headquarters in Salt Lake City, the system is enclosed during a 56-foot-wide (17 m) by 140-foot-long (43 m) and 80-foot-high (24 m) climate-controlled corner of the library building. Three aisles of shelves are served by three Storage and Retrieval Machines (SRMs) which will retrieve a mean of 875 volumes each day . There is space to feature a fourth row of shelves when it's needed.[12] The BARN (Borrower's Automated Retrieval Network) was so named in regard to Utah State University's status as an agricultural school.

All of the Merrill–Cazier Library's bound journals, over 200,000 less frequently used books, and most of the microform are stored within the BARN. There are currently nearly 550,000 items with room to expand to approximately 1.5 million items.