Daniel M. Stack Memorial Library

The Miami International University of Art & Design Daniel M. Stack Memorial Library is a focal point for information, study, literacy, and research for the entire university community. The Library contributes to every aspect of academic and intellectual sustenance at the University by providing a broad range of services to students, faculty, administration, staff, and the surrounding community.

Library Access
The Daniel M. Stack Memorial Library is located on the Mezzanine floor of The Grand. The library is open to the university community and all members of The Art Institutes. The library is recognized by SEFLIN, and the student-faculty body has access and borrowing privileges at most southeast Florida colleges and universities.

The Library is open:

Monday to Thursday: 8 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Friday: 8 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Saturday: 9 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Sundays and Holidays: Closed

Library Staff
An experienced library staff with expertise in the arts and other related disciplines provides a wide variety of services to patrons and promotes the information skills necessary for students to be productive in an ever-changing environment.

Library Resources and Facilities
The Library provides access to variety of learning resources to meet the needs of students and faculty in the current educational programs at the associate’s, bachelor’s, and master’s levels and cover a wide array of subjects. The Library’s extensive holdings include books, serial collection, including a unique Vogue collection of periodicals from 1947 till current, scripts, student’s theses, multimedia resources, and a special collection comprising rare books in History of Fashion. Numerous computers and computer network connections provide access to the Internet, electronic database subscriptions, e-magazines, and a variety of last versions of software programs. Library users also enjoy access to the Stacks, Seminar Room, Multimedia Room, and Learning Research Center. The Daniel M. Stack Memorial Library currently occupies a total area of 2,000 square feet.

Library Education
The Daniel M. Stack Memorial Library offers comprehensive orientation and bibliographic instruction programs. Library instructions and library policies are available to all freshmen students and new hired faculty. Also subject-based presentations and individual consultations on how to locate and evaluate information using the Library’s electronic and print resource are available in the Library. In addition, computer services staff maintain library systems and assist users with computer-related questions and problems.

Library Services
The University Library provides interlibrary loans; consortium’s borrowing privileges from SEFLIN Library Card program and the Library Information Resource Network for private colleges and universities. A course reserve system, in which professors place instructional materials on reserve for in-library use, gives students access to additional resources to explore the Library. The Library also provides computer printing scanning, photocopy service, CD burners, individual/group study rooms, and audio-video equipment.

Slide and Video Collections
The Library extensive slide collection includes over 15,000 slides, and over 1,000 of video cassettes that support the University’s curriculum. Slides, slides carousels, video cassettes are available only for faculty and staff use only.