About
St. Thomas University Library
The St. Thomas University Library embodies the Mission and Vision Statements of St. Thomas University as a physical and virtual center where students, faculty, staff, and the greater community engage and collaborate in learning, teaching, and research. The Library serves the learning community through a circle of services that help faculty, staff, and students transform into information fluent professionals and ethical global leaders.
The University Library fosters learning for our entire community with information resources, space, and support services that empower students to become life-long leaders. The 50,000 square foot building offers a wireless learning environment with networked seminar rooms, group study rooms, and personal study areas.
The Library houses over 215,000 print resources and 696 print magazine, journal, and newspaper titles. The building contains four computer labs and is the center for a virtual library providing access to over 275,106 full-text journals, magazines, and newspapers in digital format and 229,497 e-books.
Archives & Special Collections
The University Archives and Special Collections preserve, organize, and promote the use of the University's permanent records, and of rare and special materials that support the University's educational mission. The University Archives and Special Collections serve as a resource for St. Thomas University members, as well as scholars and researchers that are part of the academic community at large. The University Archives feature a collection of historical records, published materials, ephemera, and objects pertaining to the history of St. Thomas University from its inception to the present. The Special Collections house unique, rare, and special research materials; including books, manuscripts, photographs, prints, posters, and other printed ephemera. The Special Collections also house several significant collections of personal papers and corporate records.
Archbishop John C. Favalora Archive and Museum
A university is… “an incomparable centre of creativity and dissemination of knowledge for the good of humanity”. (Ex Corde Ecclesiae, Pope John Paul II, 1990). A major task of a university therefore is to organize knowledge so that it is easily accessible to as many people as possible. Critical to the mission is the preservation of history and the exploration of the past.
Establishment of the Archbishop John C. Favalora Archive and Museum on the St. Thomas University campus provides the ability to share vast historical resources with students, scholars and the wider community and further enhances the relationship between the Archdiocese of Miami and St. Thomas University. The history of the Archdiocese of Miami is replete with important and fascinating materials that demonstrate the importance of the Church in South Florida for the last 50 years. These archives provide an enormous body of knowledge as well as a pleasant visual experience.
Rev. Monsignor Franklyn M. Casale
President, St. Thomas University