Other Public Libraries
Other libraries are available for public use. The Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Laboratory has a technical library
of approximately 20,000 volumes with an emphasis on physics, engineering, math and chemistry. Christopher Newport University's
Paul and Rosemary Trible Library has a collection of over 400,000 volumes available to the public. The Virginia War Museum
is the depository for military memorabilia for the region. The museum has extensive archives on the history of conflict.
The library at The Mariners’ Museum is the largest maritime collection in the western hemisphere with 78,000 volumes, one million manuscript items, 600,000 photographs, and several thousand maps, charts, and ships’ plans. Its collection is international in scope and spans six centuries with several titles dating back to the 1500s. In addition, the library is home to archives relating to the history of Northrop-Grumman Newport News, USSMonitor, CSS Virginia, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Monitor National Marine Sanctuary. Used extensively by international scholars and researchers, as well as interested individuals, it is one of the most comprehensive maritime research collections in the world.