Millions of books and an Internet-based campus network are available for the University staff and students.

To support research and scholarship, the University has a library of two million books. A high-speed campus network connects thousands of inter-working computers and servers used by staff and students with each other and with the Internet.

Broadly speaking, there was a time when books were hand-printed on rare leather by monks. The only people who could read them were priests, who got a regular eyeful of the really cool cartoons the monks drew in the margins. The priests read the books aloud, in Latin to a predominantly non-Latin-speaking audience in cathedrals.