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| Harold B. Lee Library | |
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 Library main entrance at night | |
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| 40°14′57″N 111°38′57″W / 40.24917°N 111.64917°W | |
| Location | Provo, Utah, United States |
| Type | Academic library |
| Established | 1925 |
| Collection | |
| Size | 4.76 million volumes, 10.68 million total materials (2016)[1] |
| Access and use | |
| Circulation | 372,845 (2016)[2] |
| Population served | Brigham Young University |
| Other information | |
| Director | Rick Anderson[3] |
| Employees | 376 (2016)[1] |
| Website | lib |
The Harold B. Lee Library (HBLL) is the main academic library of Brigham Young University (BYU) located in Provo, Utah. The library started as a small collection of books in the president's office in 1876 before moving in 1891. The Heber J. Grant Library building was completed in 1925, and in 1961 the library moved to the newly constructed J. Reuben Clark Library where it stands today. That building was renamed to the Harold B. Lee Library in 1974.[4]
The library was significantly expanded in the 1990s, providing new individual and group study rooms and a special vault area for the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Library. In 2016, the library contained over 4.7 million books, 10.6 million total materials, and served over 10,000 patrons each day.
- ^ a b "Library Statistics (General)" (PDF). Brigham Young University. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
- ^ "Library Statistics (Circulation)" (PDF). Brigham Young University. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
- ^ Ipson, Natalie (2 July 2020). "Rick Anderson named university librarian at BYU". News. BYU Communications. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
- ^ "History of the Library". BYU Library. Brigham Young University. Retrieved 27 August 2020.