Folsom Library
New York, United States
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The Richard G. Folsom Library, completed in 1976, is a Brutalist research facility on the campus of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. Named after the institute's president Richard Gilman Folsom (1958–1971), it serves as a central component of the Rensselaer Libraries system. Beyond traditional lending services, the library offers writing and presentation assistance, inter-library loans through ConnectNY, computer labs, and wireless internet access. Its collections include over seven million books and eight million trade publications, with access to hundreds of millions of resources online. As a federal depository library, it maintains an extensive archive of federal documents available to the public, while also providing integrated digital resources including research databases and digital music libraries.
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- academic library
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- New York, United States
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