Editing Syracuse University (section)

===Libraries===
[[File:Carnegie Library (Syracuse University) 02.jpg|thumb|Carnegie Library at Syracuse University]]

[[File:Bird Library at Syracuse University as seen from the university place walkway 01.jpg|thumb|Bird Library at Syracuse University]]

Syracuse University's main library is the <!-- Ernest Stevenson Bird; but the school and other sources don't even use initials --> E. S. Bird Library, which opened in September 1972.<ref name="Bird library history"/><ref name="Bird library greene"/> Its seven levels contain 2.3&nbsp;million books, 11,500 periodicals, {{convert|45000|ft|m}} of manuscripts and rare books, 3.6&nbsp;million [[microform]]s, and a café. It remains one of the hundred largest libraries in the country.<ref name="ALA_holdings" /> The historic Carnegie library houses Science and Technology collection, additionally serving as a reading room.<ref name="carnegie_library"/> There are also several departmental libraries on campus. Many of the landmarks in the history of recorded communication between people are in the university's Special Collections Research Center, from [[cuneiform]] tablets and papyri to several codices dating from the 11th century to the invention of printing. The collection also includes works by [[Galileo]], [[Martin Luther|Luther]], [[John Calvin]], [[Voltaire]], [[Isaac Newton]], [[Descartes]], [[Francis Bacon]], [[Samuel Johnson]], [[Thomas Hobbes]], and [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe|Goethe]]. Other collections of note include [[Rudyard Kipling]] first editions and an original second leaf of the [[Gutenberg Bible]].

In addition, the collection includes the [[Ranke Library|personal library]] of [[Leopold Von Ranke]]. Making sensational headlines in 1887,<ref name="Ranke Purchase"/> the university outbid the [[Prussia|Prussian government]] for all 19 tons of Von Ranke's prized [[Library of Leopold von Ranke|personal library]].<ref name="Ranke1" /><ref name="Ranke2" />

Bird Library is also home to the largest collection of national archives of [[Kenya]] and [[Tanzania]].<ref name="Kenya National Archives"/> Since 1878, the university has participated in the [[Federal Depository Library Program]] of the [[U.S. Government Publishing Office]] (GPO) as a Regional depository library.<ref name="GPO Depository Library"/><ref name="Govt Publications at SU"/> It is the first library to permanently preserve print collections of historical government publications produced by the US-GPO.<ref name="GPO first"/> In July 2008, Syracuse University became the owner of the second largest collection of [[78 rpm]] records in the United States after the [[Library of Congress]] after a donation of more than 200,000 records. The donation, valued at $1&nbsp;million, more than doubled the university's collection of 78&nbsp;rpm records to about 400,000.<ref name="records1" /><ref name="records2" /> It also has a special Harriet Tubman Research Collection and an Environmental Justice and Gender collection housed in the [[Department of African American Studies - Syracuse University#Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library|Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library]]. The MLK library holds over 15,000 acquisitions in African, African-American, Afro-Latino, and Caribbean studies.

The university is also home to the Belfer Audio Laboratory and Archive, whose holdings total approximately 540,000 recordings in all formats, primarily cylinders, discs, and magnetic tapes. Some of the voices to be found include [[Thomas Edison]], [[Amelia Earhart]], and [[Albert Einstein]].<ref name="belfer1" /><ref name="belfer2"/> Since 2011, the facility has produced ''Sound Beat'', a daily 90-second music program that airs on nearly 375 local stations across North America.<ref name="Sound Beat1"/><ref name="Sound Beat2"/>