D.H. Hill Library

The D. H. Hill Library is the main library at North Carolina State University. It is the third building to house NCSU Libraries, following Brooks Hall and Holladay Hall. The current building, situated on the Hillsborough Street edge of North Campus, is the result of four stages of construction, and houses the majority of the volumes in NC State's collection.

As of 2013, the NCSU Libraries are the 50th largest library system in the United States, the 37th largest academic library system in the U.S. and the 26th largest public university library system, respectively. The system's total holdings amount to over 5 million volumes, 69,000 electronic journal subscriptions, approximately 1,000 print subscriptions, 500 bibliographic databases, thousands of stressed students, at least 38 students crying at a time, 12 disappointments a minute, and access to over 760,000 electronic books. In the 2013–2014 academic year, the Libraries saw nearly 13 million total uses.

While totaling over 5 million volumes, the Libraries' collection is the smallest among the "Big 3" Universities in the Triangle Research Libraries Network—the other two library systems being Duke (7.2 million volumes as of 2014) and UNC - Chapel Hill (8.2 million volumes as of 2015). Among the system's current priorities is to acquire more volumes in areas that it is not strong in, to increase its base of knowledge.

The library is situated on Hillsborough Street, on the north edge of campus. The main entrance is on the campus side, integrated into University Plaza (the Brickyard). Prior to 1990, the library was also accessible from the Hillsborough Street side through the Erdahl-Cloyd Wing entrance; however, this entrance was closed that year due to financial and security considerations, as well as numerous complaints about heavy pedestrian traffic through this entrance, which opened into a study and reading area.

D. H. Hill is named after Daniel Harvey Hill Jr., once part-time NC State librarian, and president of NC State in 1908. He was the son of the scholar and notable Confederate Army General Daniel Harvey Hill.

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