Feinberg Library

Contact Us:
Director: Joshua Beatty
Phone: 518-564-5200
Email: jbeat003@plattsburgh.edu

The Benjamin F. Feinberg Library provides students, faculty, researchers and guests with convenient access to the best information resources available on campus and worldwide. A popular campus destination, Feinberg Library offers a comfortable and welcoming environment - a place exceptionally conducive to the research and study that is at the heart of the academic experience. Feinberg Library is dedicated to the memory of the prominent Plattsburgh native and New York state senator who sponsored the 1948 legislation creating the State University of New York.

A large array of online offerings complements on-site collections and services. The library’s outstanding professional staff is always available - in person and online - to assist patrons with their information needs, helping them to find scholarly materials, cite sources, understand copyright requirements, and navigate the vast electronic environment of the Internet.

Feinberg Library is a selective depository for U.S. government documents and a designated New York state document research depository library. Feinberg is also a selective depository of Canadian government documents.

Special Collections serves the interests of SUNY Plattsburgh students and faculty and is also open to professional scholars and other researchers. This unique collection houses materials on New York with an emphasis on the northern counties of Clinton, Essex, Franklin, St. Lawrence, Hamilton, Herkimer, and Warren. Special Collections also contains the university archives and is home to manuscripts, photographs, books, and journals that document the history of the North Country.

Feinberg Library houses more than 320,000 volumes and provides access to more than 70,000 periodicals, both in print and online. Patrons enjoy access to a full range of digital and print information resources and applications in the library’s Reference and Electronic Search Services Center. Feinberg Library is also home to the Rockwell Kent Gallery, an exceptional collection of the famed artist’s works, and the Douglas and Evelyne Skopp Holocaust Memorial Gallery.

Academic advisors and tutors help students achieve academic and personal success in the Office of Academic Advising and the Claude J. Clarke Learning Center, both located on the first floor of the library.

Librarians:
Holly Heller-Ross, (M.L.S., SUNY Albany, SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Librarianship)

Associate Librarians:
Joshua Beatty, (Ph.D., College of William and Mary, SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Librarianship)
Debra Kimok, (M.L.S., SUNY Buffalo, SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Librarianship)
Gordon Muir, (M.L.S., Vanderbilt University)
Mila Su, (M.S., Clarion University of Pennsylvania)
Michelle Toth, (M.L.S., Indiana University, SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Librarianship)
Karen Volkman, (M.L.S., University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching)