Air University Library, founded in 1946, is the premier library in the Department of Defense (DOD). Air University Library primary mission is to support Air University (AU), headquartered at Maxwell AFB, Alabama, which is the lead agent for Air Force professional military education (PME). It houses well-balanced collections especially strong in the fields of war fighting, aeronautics, Air Force and DOD operations, military sciences, international relations, education, leadership, and management. Air University Library holds more than 2.6 million items: 530,000 military documents; over 429,000 monographs and bound periodical volumes; 615,000 maps and charts; 150,000 current regulations/manuals; and over 909,000 microforms.
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Driving progress through innovation. Our Research Institutes provide useful ideas and independent analysis of issues of current or potential importance to Air Force commanders and their staffs.

AU Research Topics List, which is comprised of questions given to Air University by organizations with the USAF and other DoD organizations. To facilitate the iterative process of research, each question also includes a list of relevant work that has been recently researched by AU students and is hosted in the AU Library's databases

Office of Sponsored Programs

Air University's publishing arm, we support DAF personnel development by enriching PME curricula, informing doctrine, and expanding research in air, land, maritime, space, cyberspace, and information domains.

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