Libraries
Fordham University Libraries are at three major locations: the Rose Hill campus in the Bronx, the Lincoln Center campus in Manhattan, and the Tarrytown campus in Westchester County. Fordham University Libraries own more than two million volumes and subscribe to nearly 16,000 periodicals and serials and is a depository for United States government documents. Fordham University Libraries own many special collections of rare books and manuscripts covering a variety of subjects including Americana, Jesuitica, the French Revolution and Criminology.
The Walsh Library at Rose Hill contains about 900,000 volumes and is named after William Walsh, a Fordham alumnus and member of the University Board of Trustees, who made a major contribution toward its construction. All Rose Hill Library services including the science library, audio visuals, electronic services, government documents, archives, special collections, microforms, and Fordham dissertations are housed here.
The Gerald M. Quinn Library at Lincoln Center contains some 375,000 volumes and is named in memory of the late Dean of Fordham College at Lincoln Center. In addition to a general collection serving Fordham College at Lincoln Center, the Quinn Library also has strong collections in business, education, and social service serving the three graduate schools on that campus.
The Fordham Collection at Tarrytown is housed in the Gloria Gaines Memorial Library at Marymount College. The collection includes more than 130,000 volumes, 500 journals and 500 audio-visual titles. The library primarily serves the students of Marymount College of Fordham University, Fordham College of Liberal Studies and graduate students who take courses at the Fordham Graduate Center in Tarrytown.
Fordham Law School Library is administered as a separate library, but is open for use by all students and faculty. Its collection numbers over 326,000 bound volumes, 1,000,000 microforms and 5,270 periodicals. Subject strengths include American and international law, with many foreign legal sources including European Community law and international antitrust law. Different borrowing rules may apply. Ask the librarian.
All students have access to the New York Public Library system and many of the 750 special libraries in the New York area through Fordham's membership in the New York Metropolitan Reference and Research Library Agency.
Information Technology Facilities
Students and faculty can access the University's network 24 hours a day via modem, Internet or by utilizing the around-the-clock computer support centers at both the Rose Hill, Lincoln Center and Tarrytown campuses. These centers, located in Dealy Hall at the Rose Hill campus, the Leon Lowenstein Building at the Lincoln Center campus and Marian Hall on the Tarrytown campus, maintain an extensive array of software to facilitate research, learning and Internet access. Fordham College at Lincoln Center students take advantage of the newly created graphic arts and media studies lab to fulfill course requirements. Other computer facilities supervised by individual schools include the Center of Cognitive Technologies in the Graduate School of Education, the Technology Center and the Peat Marwick Computing Facility in the Graduate School of Business Administration and the Law School Computer Teaching Room and Lab.
Vincent T. Lombardi Memorial Athletic Center
The Vincent T. Lombardi Memorial Athletic Center is the heart of intramural and recreational sports at Fordham. The Lombardi facilities are available to both day and evening students interested in physical fitness or simply in having fun.
Lombardi facilities include an eight-lane, 38-meter pool and diving well; basketball, volleyball, tennis, squash/racketball, and handball courts; men's and women's weight rooms; a 220-yard indoor track; aerobics and cardio-fitness facilities; Finnish sauna; and equipment for indoor field events.
The center is named for the Fordham alumnus who was a member of Fordham's legendary "Seven Blocks of Granite" before going on to a legendary career coaching the Green Bay Packers.
Fitness and Exercise Center
McMahon Residence Hall at the Lincoln Center campus houses the Fitness and Exercise Center on the second floor. The Center is equipped with Nautilus machines, stationary bicycles, and step machines. For an additional cardiovascular workout, aerobics classes are also offered. Tennis and basketball courts are located just outside McMahon Hall for use by the Fordham community.
Alumnae Sports Building
The Tarrytown campus houses the Alumnae Sports Building. It is Equipped with a gymnasium, a modern dance studio, an Olympic-sized swimming pool and a fitness center. A field and softball diamond are adjacent to the building, and a tennis court is located next to Gailhac residence hall.
McGinley Center
The McGinley Center is the central gathering place for students at the Rose Hill campus. It houses a large student lounge; two cafeterias; Dagger John's Pub, named for Archbishop "Dagger John" Hughes, the founder of Fordham; the University bookstore; various student activity and student services offices; a video and recreation room; the campus post office; the office of student career planning and placement; a ballroom/auditorium; and a faculty dining room and lounge. Also housed in this central Rose Hill location are the offices of Fordham's Community Service Program, Student Activities, Intercampus Transportation (Ram Van) and Campus Ministry.
Lowenstein Building
The plaza level of the Lowenstein Building at the Lincoln Center campus features a recently enlarged cafeteria under a glass atrium that offers a view of the lawns and sculpture garden of Fordham's Robert Moses Plaza. The main building also includes student lounge areas, a bookstore, a new graphic arts facility (with a computer graphics lab and darkroom) and a computer center.
Monthly art exhibitions are installed in the Gerald M. Quinn Library Gallery, student art is displayed in the Plaza Gallery and sculpture shows are found outdoors on Robert Moses Plaza.
Rita Hall
Rita Hall serves as a cultural and social center for the Tarrytown campus, with a lounge, music practice rooms and the PepsiCo Concert Hall, which seats 140. Café Eclipse serves a wide variety of food on the first floor. The dining room on the second floor accommodates the entire student body, faculty and guests at a single seating. The campus bookstore is located near the building's entrance.
Laboratories
Fordham's commitment to scientific education and research is reflected in the anthropology, psychology, and social science laboratories in Dealy Hall, the biology laboratory in Larkin Hall, and the chemistry and biology laboratories in Freeman Hall. Students and faculty also have full access to media centers in Thebaud Hall at the Rose Hill campus, in the Lowenstein Building on the Lincoln Center campus and in the Gloria Gaines Memorial Library at the Tarrytown campus.
Multimedia Centers
The Multimedia Centers are University-wide production facilities designed to support and enhance academic curriculum. Students may participate in the development and recording of their own film and video productions -- including scripting, production design, filming, taping, graphics generation, editing and sound mixing. The Centers have a separate viewing room where faculty and students may view tapes and films. Students may borrow audio/visual equipment on alimitedbasis with a valid Fordham ID card. The Multimedia Centers are located in the Lowenstein Building, room 419 at Lincoln Center, (212) 636-6313, and in Thebaud Hall, room 311 at Rose Hill, (718) 817-4170.
Theatre Spaces
At Lincoln Center, the theatre department stages full-scale dramas and musicals in the Generoso Pope Memorial Auditorium. Workshops and smaller presentations take place in one of several studio theatres in the Lowenstein Building.
Rose Hill students regularly stage student productions in the auditorium in Collins Hall and the Little Theatre in Keating Hall.
At Tarrytown, dramatic and musical productions are generally performed in the newly renovated Spellman Auditorium.
