page_title: Oviatt Library
section_title: Services and collections
hierarchical_section_title: Oviatt Library / Services and collections
caption_attribution_description: English: The Oviatt Library building (2009) — at California State University, Northridge in the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, California.
context_page_description: The Delmar T. Oviatt Library serves the California State University, Northridge campus, located in Northridge in the northern San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, California. The library is named for Delmar T. Oviatt, instrumental in the founding of San Fernando Valley State College, CSUN's predecessor.
context_section_description: The Oviatt Library has a physical collection containing 1.3 million print volumes, of which over one million are books, and over 249,000 bound periodical volumes. The Library subscribes to over 84,000 online journals, 200 online databases, and approximately 500,000 e-books. The microform collection contains 3.1 million pieces. There are over 14,000 sound recordings, and over 60,000 film and video recordings. A special focus is the San Fernando Valley History Collection digital archives. The Special Collections & Archives section of the Oviatt Library has many archival collections of important primary source documents including a large collection of materials on LGBTQ and Human sexuality, along with the Vahdah Olcott-Bickford collection, the Old China Hands Archive, and the Tom and Ethel Bradley Center vast collection of photographs from diverse communities of color throughout the United States and Latin America.  In addition, the Oviatt Library's Teacher Curriculum Center provides a large circulating collection of curricular materials for education students and local educators.
caption: Oviatt Library
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