Rank the Ivy League libraries

College Search & Selection
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<p>If you had to rank every Ivy League Library 1-10, how would you rank them?</p>

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<p>This is by far the stupidest list idea I have ever seen:</p>

<ol>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>Penn</li>
<li>Cornell </li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Columbia </li>
<li>Colonel Sanders</li>
<li>Ronald McDonald</li>
</ol>

<p>My point exactly. Seriously, grow up and stop appearing petty.</p>

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<p>By 1-10 I mean rate them 1-10.</p>

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<p>I’m pretty sure he means this entire idea is dumb. Rate what–number of books, architecture, bathrooms?? Most colleges at this level have multiple libraries all over campus.</p>

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<p>While you guys are at it, can you rank the carpet in the dorm rooms of all the Ivy Leagues as well?</p>

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<p>Columbia has amazing carpets. Why do you think I am applying there?</p>

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<p>Chill out. It is not as if this is deciding where I am applying. I am just curious which school libraries are known to be fantastic. If you want to complain about someone being petty, why don’t you search some genuinely petty posters. Trust me there is no scarcity of them.</p>

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<p>Doesn’t matter if you are talking about holdings. We have Interlibrary Loan, so you can get any book or article at any of the other Ivy Leagues through ILL.</p>

<p>If you’re talking about facilities, can’t help you - I’ve only ever been in Columbia’s libraries and I freaking love them. Then again, I come from an undergrad that shared a dinky library between 4 different schools and wasn’t even on my campus, so I’m more than thrilled to have 16 libraries to study in.</p>

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<p>What’s with all the Ivy ranking threads lately?</p>

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<p>Harvard has the most volumes by far. 2nd only to the Library of Congress, I believe. I don’t think they participate in the Ivy inter-loan, but have partnered with MIT.</p>

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<p>Based on personal experience with several I’d say for serious research it’s:

  1. Harvard
  2. Yale
  3. Columbia
  4. Princeton
    5-8. pick 'em</p>
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<p>How does the Duke Lib. compare with Penn, Brown, and Emory?</p>

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<p>I’ve been inside to several libraries in Harvard and Yale and they are equally beautiful and complete. I don’t think you can realy say one is better than the other.</p>

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<p>By size:
[The</a> Top 50 Largest College Libraries | InsideCollege.com](<a href=“The Best College Rankings and Lists | Inside College | CollegeXpress”>The Best College Rankings and Lists | Inside College | CollegeXpress)</p>

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<p>Rank them in terms of the number of girls shopping on their laptop (instead of studying) in the library too, adjusted for the size of of the student population.</p>

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I think the resistance you’re encountering with these broad, open ended questions is that 1) we don’t know why you’re asking, and 2) the questions are not spcific enough to be meaningful. </p>

<p>For example, if you’re interesting in biomedical research, and feel that the quality of the library is significant to that specific goal of yours, then you should say that…</p>

<p>Otherwise, I’ll vote for the library in my own home b/c it has a PS3 connected to the TV (plasma, not LCD… must be Plasma for gaming!!).</p>

<p>If you’re really that bored this summer, I can think of other rank ordered lists you could start Threads about.</p>