Nestlé Library
Collections
The Nestlé Library has one of the finest collections on hospitality management in the world. Our collection of over 37,000 volumes includes books and periodicals on all aspects of hospitality management. In addition to books and periodicals, the library holds over 1,500 videos. See the Cornell Library Catalog for specific titles.
The library's collection also includes a large collection of menus and rare books that are held in the Cornell Library's Rare and Manuscript Collections, located in the Carl A. Kroch Library. Our Restaurant Menu Database serves as a finding aid for the menu collection.
Our rare book collection, known as the Herndon-Vehling Collection, was developed from gifts-in-kind received from J. B. Herndon, Jr.(1898-1953) and Mrs. Alice Statler, who purchased the collection of J. D. Vehling for the library.
Our collection also features electronic copies of all of the doctoral theses prepared here in the Hotel School.