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The Conrad N. Hilton Library is the main library of the Culinary Institute of America, at its main campus in Hyde Park, New York. The building is named after Conrad N. Hilton. Public library Four full-time and one part-time, including the director and full-time archives specialist.

History
"The Conrad N. Hilton Library is filled with cookbooks and a sidewalk of the stars, lined with clay handprints and photos of chefs like Jeremiah Tower and Eric Ripert. It also houses the Danny Kaye Theater (yes, the entertainer), which looks like a lecture hall, except that, instead of a podium, there is an up-to-the-minute demonstration kitchen, complete with overhead mirrors and television screens displaying close-ups of the stove and work area."

"Most people also don’t realize that the Conrad N. Hilton Library is open to the public. Its collections include comedian Danny Kaye’s cookbook library and an assortment of more than 30,000 menus from around the world, dating from 1883 to the present. (The library’s oldest book is in Latin and was published in 1503.) Community members are welcome to use the library for research (although Wi-Fi is only available to students) and can relax in front of the fireplace in the attractive sitting room. Books may be borrowed through interlibrary loans."

one of the largest culinary libraries in the US, with a large culinary collection and other topics to support nonculinary classes. The archives have about 1,000 rare books and about 30,000 menus from around the world. Open to the public.

$7.5 million facility, 68,000 volumes, open seven days a week.

Decision to build linked to 1992 BPS proposal. Needed space to house collections supporting the courses, but no room in Roth for lib or LSC. The stacks built early 1900s for Jesuits almost totally full, structure unable to support additional weight. Not handicap accessible. Construction began spring 1992 completed sept 1993. 45000sqft replaced Katherine Angell Library and LSC, on the 2nd and 3rd floors of Roth. Now more space in Roth for classrooms, offices for bps program. New library space for 68,000 books, reading areas, lounge furniture, for 300 students. Houses DK Theater, 150-seat lecture hall w demo kitchen.

Has pink Italian marble floors, stained glass w culinary themes, lounge w fireplace, theater.

Danny Kaye Theater

1993 approval from BOR for 2 BPS degrees, and opened library w $1.5 million gift from CNH Foundation with the DK theater

the archives of the cia first established 1990, when a large collection of materials from the school’s history identified, collected, organized, recorded, preserved. All non-current records of value made avaialbe. In 1999 a special collections librarian/archivist hired to catalog+organize. Has stored materials on CIA hist and ops, relations w surrounding communities, records and publications by CIA, personal papers and manuscripts of faculty and alumni and noted chefs, and materials related to St. Andrew ofn Hudson. Holds 80 cubic feet of archives. Rare books and menus are separate collections, about 1000 ratre books and 18000 menus.

P54-LSC w peer tutoring, workshops, comp-based learning resources, assistance for students w learning disabilities.

P66-Volumes 42287 in may 1994, 59969 in may 2000. Student Computer Center, Video Center.

"The Library Learning Commons, located within the library building, includes a variety of workspaces equipped with technology to support a diverse range of learning activities. Students have many opportunities to practice and enhance their academic and hands-on skills, as well as develop study strategies necessary for success."

Archives
The school's Archives and Special Collections department is located in the library. Highlights of the collection includes a Roman amphora displayed in the Archives Reading Room, menu covers for New York City's Chanterelle Restaurant which were designed by notable artists, and a 1556 Latin edition of Athenaeus' Deipnosophistae, volume 15.

The CIA had collected menus since the 1950s. In the late 1990s, the staff archivist numbered the menus, though the archives were not open to the public. The current archivist, hired in 2012 along with a new library director and dean, is a former Smithsonian Institution employee. Approximately 100 to 150 students visit the archives per month.The menu collection entirely consists of donations; all donations are accepted except if at risk of damaging other menus. Temperature-regulated. rare culinary books in glass cased shelves around room; long wooden table in center for examining items. The archivist hosts an event for student orientations, and assists Applied Food Studies classes in comparing menus and in creating an exhibit for the campus's food exhibit.