<h2>About the Library</h2>
<p class="bodytext">The Library was named for the abolitionist newspaper editor, <a href="http://www.state.il.us/hpa/lovejoy/table.htm">Elijah Lovejoy</a>, who was shot and killed while defending his press from a pro-slavery mob in Alton, Illinois in 1837.</p>
<p class="bodytitle"><strong>Mission</strong></p>
<p class="bodytext">Lovejoy Library was established in 1965 to support and enhance instruction, scholarship and public service to Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and the region, by providing scholarly information and archival resources.</p>
<strong class="bodytitle">Holdings</strong>
<ul>
<li><span class="bodytext">Approximately 800,000 volumes</span></li>
<li><span class="bodytext">1,300,000 microforms</span></li>
<li><span class="bodytext">540,000 U.S. Documents</span></li>
<li><span class="bodytext">150,000 maps and aerial photographs</span></li>
<li class="bodytext">34,000 sound recordings</li>
</ul>
<strong class="bodytitle">Reference and Other Services</strong>
<ul>
<li><span class="bodytext">Reference Service<br /> Service is free of charge for all inquiries connected to personally conducted research.</span></li>
<li><span class="bodytext">Electronic Access<br /> Online access to bibliographic databases providing citations, abstracts, full text, and images of articles in thousands of journals.</span></li>
<li><span class="bodytext">Reciprocal Services<br /> HEC cardholders and InfoPASS participants are welcome.</span></li>
<li><span class="bodytext">Non-SIUE Patrons<br /> Borrowing privileges are available to current SIUE Alumni Association and <a href="/lovejoylibrary/friends/">Friends of Lovejoy Library</a> members.</span></li>
<li class="bodytext">Assistance<br /> Library staff are available to assist users in locating information and resources. Numerous finding aids and guides to the collections are available to researchers.</li>
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<strong class="bodytitle">Special Collections</strong>
<ul>
<li><span class="bodytext">Regional History<br /> Books, manuscripts, oral histories, and photographs relating to the history and culture of southwestern Illinois and the St. Louis metropolitan area</span></li>
<li><span class="bodytext">Music<br /> Sheet music, recordings, oral histories, stock arrangements of popular music from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century</span></li>
<li><span class="bodytext">National Ragtime and Jazz Archive</span></li>
<li class="bodytext">United States and Illinois document depositories</li>
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