This main library houses about 3.7 million items including print and online books, periodicals, government documents, maps, media, and other materials.
[2] The Jaffe Center for Book Arts is also part of the Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton campus library.
The Jaffe Center also educates both students and the public on topics such as bookbinding, book structures, boxmaking, paper decoration, and letterpress printing.
This library exists to promote the academic curriculum of the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College also located on the campus.
There are approximately 96,000 volumes in print occupying two floors including published senior Honours Theses titles from 2002 to the present and nearly 6,000 media items in the library's collection.
They feature digital images, manuscripts, letters, streaming videos, electronic theses, dissertations, finding aids, photographs, maps, and other research, teaching, and learning material, both those at FAU, and those at partner institutions.
Weiner was inspired to create the collection by obtaining materials that may have been found in the libraries of men such as Benjamin Franklin and John Adams.
The holdings in this collection include: rare books, manuscripts, pamphlets, historical newspapers, and journals.
These archives include Jazz, Judaic, and Vintage recordings totaling close to 150,000 and are still in the process of being itemized and digitized.