Campus
& Community
The University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with approximately 36,500
students, is located in the twin cities of
Champaign and Urbana
(combined population ca. 100,000), easily accessible by air,
rail and road transportation. Champaign-Urbana offers the
advantages of small-town life with cultural and recreational
opportunities normally found only in the larger metropolitan
centers. Particularly noteworthy are the Krannert
Center for the Performing Arts (a complex of four modern
theaters and concert halls for the presentation of local,
national, and international theatrical and musical events),
the impressive Assembly
Hall (designed for both athletic and cultural events,
with a seating capacity of about 17,000), the Krannert
Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, and the Spurlock
Museum, devoted to our world heritage. Suitable housing
for graduate students is available from the University as
well as in the private sector.
The University Library
is the largest academic library at a public university in
the United States, with its more than 16.4 million items,
including 9.3 million volumes and 91,000 serial titles. The
German collection, with some 67,000 volumes, is especially
extensive. In addition, the University Library houses some
26,500 volumes in the Scandinavian languages and literatures.
Among the library's world-renowned holdings are those dealing
with Rainer Maria Rilke, German Baroque literature, emblem
books from France, Germany, Italy, and Spain, and theoretical
and applied linguistics. Authors strongly represented in the
collections include Luther, Droste-Hülshoff, Hebbel,
Brecht, Strindberg, Ibsen, and Hans Christian Andersen. Graduate
students and faculty members have stack privileges and access
to all collections, including the valuable holdings in the
Rare Book Room.
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