These can be also reached via computer network. Several libraries are available on the Stony Brook campus. Jr. Memorial Library contains 1.7 million bound volumes and more than 2 million volumes in micro format. In addition, the H. Bentley Glass Life Sciences Library, which is adjacent to the Life Sciences Building, currently maintains a collection of 80,600 volumes, including 725 current journal titles, relating to all aspects of the biological sciences. The Health Sciences Center library contains biological and medical books and journals presently totaling 250,510 volumes, including 4,374 serials and periodicals.
Many departments also maintain their own small libraries.
For example, the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology maintains a reading room with a collection of approximately 2,000 volumes of 12 major journals especially relevant to research in molecular biology. Research Facilities Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is a fully equipped and independent institution. It is both a major research and conference center. All the necessary equipment for molecular biological and other studies is available, including facilities for X-ray crystallography. The Neuroscience Center which opened in spring 1991 has further expanded its research base.