The 4-story Louis Stokes Health Sciences Library stores 400,000 volumes of books, periodicals and electronic format material. It seats 615 individuals and is wired with power and data ports that will permit any user to sit with a laptop and retrieve information worldwide. It contains electronics classrooms with fully equipped workstation for information training along with a spacious area for circulation, forty-seat community resource center, fifteen-seat rooms for videoconferencing, a telemedicine center and several small group study rooms. The closed stack provides a specially Controlled preservation environment and has the capacity to hold 12,000 volumes in electric compact shelving. The reading room provides a beautiful, secure and controlled environment for the display and use of special collections. The library provides many important resources, services and new technologies needed to support the students, faculty and researchers of all the University's Health Sciences programs and the Howard University Hospital. It will also greatly improve the University's ability to share critically important information with health professionals and researchers at many other institutions and to provide outreach services to the surrounding community.