Besides normal copying, enlargement and reduction of print size is available. The Library will supply copy cards and change but asks patrons to avoid using twenty-dollar bills. Questions that call for extensive research are not accepted given the small size of our staff and the fact that the Library is not automated. There is no distinction made about those who ask the questions. Plans are being made for retrospective conversion whereby all holdings will be accessible through OCLC, but there is no projected date for this plan.
Interlibrary loan is for students and faculty only.
St. Mary's Seminary and University was founded in Baltimore by the priests of the Society of St. Sulpice from Paris, France in 1791. The original buildings of the seminary were located on Paca Street in the city. The institution moved to its present location at Roland Avenue in 1929. The library can trace its roots to books brought to the new world by those Sulpician priests who founded St. Mary's in 1791. Some of those books can still be found today in the rare book collection which numbers 2500 volumes.