Facilities for Historical Research
Case Western Reserve University, the other institutions
in its University Circle neighborhood, and the Cleveland
area in general offer excellent facilities for historical
research. These facilities are especially strong
in the fields of social policy history and the history
of medicine, health care, nonprofit organizations,
technology, and science. The university library's
extensive collections in these fields are significantly
augmented by the holdings of the nationally-ranked
Cleveland Health Sciences Library in the history
of medicine and health care, and of the equally
distinguished Western Reserve Historical Society
in regional economic, social, nonprofit, ethnic,
African-American, and Jewish history. Both the Cleveland
Health Sciences Library and the Western Reserve
Historical Society library are adjacent to the campus.
The Cleveland Public Library, just five miles from
campus in downtown Cleveland is the third largest
public library in the U.S.; it maintains excellent
research collections in Ohio, U.S. and British history,
technology and business. CWRU has also pioneered
in the development of electronic connections to
other libraries and to research resources in general.
Through OhioLINK, Ohio's many colleges and universities
have one of the nation's leading interlibrary loan
programs; books are ordered statewide by patrons
using their desktop computers, and are normally
delivered within three to five days. Case Western
Reserve University, the other institutions in its
University Circle neighborhood, and the Cleveland
area in general offer excellent facilities for historical
research. These facilities are especially strong
in the fields of social policy history and the history
of medicine, health care, nonprofit organizations,
technology, and science. The university library's
extensive collections in these fields are significantly
augmented by the holdings of the nationally-ranked
Cleveland Health Sciences Library in the history
of medicine and health care, and of the equally
distinguished Western Reserve Historical Society
in regional economic, social, nonprofit, ethnic,
African-American, and Jewish history. Both the Cleveland
Health Sciences Library and the Western Reserve
Historical Society library are adjacent to the campus.
The Cleveland Public Library, just five miles from
campus in downtown Cleveland is the third largest
public library in the U.S.; it maintains excellent
research collections in Ohio, U.S. and British history,
technology and business. CWRU has also pioneered
in the development of electronic connections to
other libraries and to research resources in general.
Through OhioLINK, Ohio's many colleges and universities
have one of the nation's leading interlibrary loan
programs; books are ordered statewide by patrons
using their desktop computers, and are normally
delivered within three to five days.
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