Editing University of Southampton (section)

===Libraries===
[[File:HartleyLibraryRear.JPG|thumb|right|Exterior of the 2005 extension to the Hartley Library]]

The university has libraries located on each of the academic campuses and in total the collection holds over 1.5&nbsp;million books and periodicals.<ref>{{cite web|title=Library Services and Sites|url=http://library.soton.ac.uk/services|website=Library|publisher=University of Southampton|access-date=3 July 2014}}</ref><ref name="hartley extension">{{cite web|url=http://www.southampton.ac.uk/estatedevelopment/landmarkbuildings/hartleylibrary.html|title=Hartley Library Extension|publisher=southampton.ac.uk|access-date=16 April 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140223045916/http://www.southampton.ac.uk/estatedevelopment/landmarkbuildings/hartleylibrary.html|archive-date=23 February 2014|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

The university's primary library is the '''Hartley Library''', located on Highfield campus and first built in 1935 and extended further in 1959 and 2005.<ref name="hartley extension"/> The majority of the books and periodicals are held there as well as specialist collections of works such as Ford collection of Parliamentary papers and the [[European Documentation Centre]]. In addition, the main library houses the Special Collections and Archives centre, housing more than 6 million manuscripts and a large archive of rare books.<ref name=nash20>{{Harvnb|Nash|Sherwood|2002|pp=256–268|loc=Chapter: "Professional Support Services"}}</ref> Specific collections include the correspondence of [[Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington]], acquired by the university in 1983, as well as the Broadlands Archive, including the [[Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston|Palmerston]] and Mountbatten papers. The library also contains 4,500 volumes of [[Claude Montefiore]]'s library on Theology and [[Judaism]], the Ford Parliamentary Papers, [[Frank Perkins (engineer)|Frank Perkins]]' collection of books on agriculture, Sir [[Samuel Gurney-Dixon]]'s [[Dante]] collection and the James Parkes Library of Jewish/non-Jewish relations.<ref name=nash20/> The library also includes six rare editions of the [[Divina Commedia]]; the first of these, the Brescia edition of 1487, is the library's earliest book.<ref name=nash20/>

In addition to the main Hartley Library, there are other libraries based at the university's other campuses primarily focused on the subjects studied at that location. As one of the smaller libraries and given its proximity to the Highfield campus, the Avenue Library only houses a collection of key Humanities resources.<ref>{{cite web|title=Avenue Library|url=http://library.soton.ac.uk/avenue|publisher=University of Southampton|access-date=3 December 2013}}</ref> It does however also hold an extensive film library, many of an international nature.<ref>{{cite web|title=Film Collection – Avenue|url=http://library.soton.ac.uk/content.php?pid=473387&sid=3876036|publisher=University of Southampton|access-date=3 December 2013}}</ref> On a larger scale, the libraries at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton General Hospital, Winchester School of Art are more complete and house the majority of the resources and specialist collections on oceanography and earth sciences, healthcare and art and design respectively.<ref>{{cite web|title=National Oceanographic Library|url=http://library.soton.ac.uk/nol|publisher=University of Southampton|access-date=3 December 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Health Services Library|url=http://library.soton.ac.uk/hsl|publisher=University of Southampton|access-date=3 December 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Winchester School of Art Library|url=http://library.soton.ac.uk/wsa|publisher=University of Southampton|access-date=3 December 2013}}</ref> The Malaysia campus holds a small collection of reference books but the majority of the resources needed for courses at the campus are available online.<ref>{{cite web|title=Malaysia Campus|url=http://library.soton.ac.uk/malaysia|publisher=University of Southampton|access-date=3 December 2013}}</ref> Separate from the Hartley Library is the E. J. Richards Engineering Library, which contains further materials for more in-depth study and is freely accessible to Engineering students and staff.<ref>{{cite web|title=E. J. Richards Library|url=http://library.soton.ac.uk/ejrichards|publisher=University of Southampton|access-date=3 December 2013}}</ref>