Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library
Campus entrance to the Library
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| Country | United States |
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| Type | Public |
| Established | 2003 |
| Location | 150 E. San Fernando Street San Jose, California |
| Coordinates | 37°20′08″N 121°53′06″W / 37.33545°N 121.88496°WCoordinates: 37°20′08″N 121°53′06″W / 37.33545°N 121.88496°W |
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| Size | 1,600,000 volumes |
| Website | https://www.sjlibrary.org/ |
The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library (also known locally as the MLK Library) is a 136-foot (41 m) tall public library in downtown San Jose, California, which had its grand opening on August 16, 2003. As of 2007[update], it is the largest library building in the western United States built in a single construction project, with over 475,000 square feet (44,000 m²) of space on eight floors and approximately 1.6 million volumes. The King Library is a collaboration between the City of San José and San José State University: it is the main library for both San José State University and the San José Public Library system. In 2004 it was honored as Library of the Year by Library Journal and Thompson Gale, for its collaborative combination of the two functions as well as for the building. On its tenth anniversary in 2013 it was still the largest joint university-municipal library in the United States.
The Library building can accommodate over 2000 visitors.
Special collections within the library include, all on the 5th floor, the Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies, the Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies, a California History Room, the SJSU Special Collections & Archive. There is also the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Civil Rights Collection on the 3rd floor.
The lower level (below floor 1) provides public computers, magazines and government documents. The reference collections are on floor 2. The volumes of the City Library system are shelved on floor 3. There, the non-fiction are indexed via the Dewey Decimal Classification and the fiction are sorted alphabetically by author's last name. The volumes of the University Library (known also as the Research Collection) are shelved in floor 6 to 8 and are indexed via the Library of Congress Classification. Some duplicate volumes exist in both systems.
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