The Grainger Engineering Library Information Center is a five-floor, 92,000 square-foot facility. The building can seat 1,200 patrons, can accommodate 350,000 volumes of library materials, and has the capability of supporting 1,000 networked computer connections. The Grainger Library provides a focal point for the College of Engineering faculty, students, and staff by making available group study rooms, individual study carrels, faculty and scholar studies, and conference and seminar rooms. It also provides state-of-the-art computing and information technologies to assist students in research and instruction and to provide patrons access to information resources both held locally and available on the Internet