Its Sibley Music Library, with resources numbering more than a half-million items, is recognized as one of the foremost music research libraries in the world. Housed since 1989 in newly constructed facilities, its collection includes autograph scores of masters of the past as well as those of many contemporary composers. The University's South Campus , a quarter-mile south of the Medical Center, is the site of the Laboratory for Laser Energetics. The Center for Optoelectronics and Imaging, a newer building housing additional research programs, is connected to the Laboratory. The River Road Laboratory and Residence are nearby.
South Campus is linked to other campuses by a free shuttle bus service.
The Prince Street Campus contains the University's Memorial Art Gallery, which serves as a public art museum serving west-central New York, with representative collections of world art of nearly all major schools and periods and regularly changing exhibitions. C.E.K. Mees Observatory is located on Gannett Hill in the Bristol Hills south of Rochester.