Collections
Highlights of the Collection:
- Extensive biographical resources
- Directories and other sources of addresses for institutions, agencies and businesses
- Printed catalogs of national and major libraries, including the Library of Congress, the New
York Public Library, the British Library and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries (general and subject-specific) in English and other Western
Languages
- Information on publishers
- Guides to research in specific fields and disciplines
- Indexes to periodical literature in various subject areas, both in print and via electronic
databases
- Extensive legislative resources
- Extensive statistical resources, including industry publications
- Government Information access tools, such as historical bibliographies and indexes
- Patent and trademark information
- Extensive collection of scientific and technical reports
- The library is a government information depository for the United Nations, United States
Government, Canada, Great Britain, and the State of Illinois
- Collection of United States Census information