Social Work Library

Located in the Columbia School of Social Work, the Social Work Library contains more than 75,000 volumes, comprising one of the world's premiere social work and social services collections. It provides comprehensive coverage of the various areas of social work including child welfare, gerontology, health and health care, international social welfare, marriage and the family, and social policy.

Services & Tools

Access resources such as borrowing, printing, and reserves

View All Services & Tools

Collections

Explore newly available and featured collections related to this library

EBSCO

Health and psychosocial instruments

The Social Agency Collection

DSM-5

Sage Video: Social Work

Sage Research Methods

Software

Browse software resources available in this library

Software

View All Software & Devices

Workshops & Drop-In Help

Workshops
Drop-In Help

News

Browse news and announcements about the Libraries

Oct 22, 2025

News

More from Open Access Week: The Libraries supports the Subscribe to Open (S2O) publishing model that allows all authors, anywhere in the world, to publish open access articles for free, as long as a journal has met its annual funding target.

Oct 22, 2025

In recognition of Open Access Week, the Open Scholarship team shares a number of resources on no-fee and low-fee open access (OA) publishing, including the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), which indexes more than 22,000 OA journals.

Oct 21, 2025

News

View the digital archives of two vital University publications, Spectator and The Record, in a collection that contains nearly 18,000 issues, including editions that date to 1877, and total more than 136,000 digitized pages.

View All News

Librarians in this library