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UM's Specialty Libraries
Following is a list and brief descriptions of the specialty libraries that are part of the
centrally administered University Library system. Individual libraries should be
contacted for current information on hours of operation.
Art & Architecture Library, 2106 Art & Architecture Bldg., North
Campus, 764-1303
Areas primarily covered are architecture and contemporary and modern fine arts.
Special features include slides on art and architecture, architectural drawings,
photographs, maps, and manuscript materials. The library also houses a
microcomputer center.
Asia Library, 421 Graduate Library North, 7644406
Holdings include Chinese, Japanese, and Korean items. The library houses a large
collection of Red Guard material and a special collection on Chinese and Japanese
culture. A printed catalog of the collection's holdings through 1978 is available.
Chemistry Library, 2000 Chemistry Bldg., 764-7337
The library houses a special collection of pamphlets and punched cards on spectra
and can conduct chemical substructure searching.
Dentistry Library, 1100 Dental Bldg., 764-1526
Features include publications of the American Dental Association and early minutes
of the Michigan Dental Society meetings. Also available are 645 periodicals, including
virtually every pertinent English-language serial and selected foreign periodicals.
Engineering-Transportation Library, 312 Undergraduate Library, 764-
7494
Holdings focus on engineering, transportation, and computers, as well as air and
water pollution. Special holdings include road test files, shop manuals, Rand and
NASA reports, Sams TV repair schematics, patents, standards, and historical
transportation materials. Services include access to over 200 databases.
Fine Arts Library, 260 Tappan Hall, 764-5405
The collection focuses on history of art and artists and features a special collection
of pre-20th century Asian art. Materials include 250,000 slides of art from around the
world
Information and Library Studies Library, 300 Graduate Library North,
764-9375
Special features in the collection include juvenile and young adult materials.
Mathematics Library, 3027 Angell Hall, 764-7266
Notable features in the collection include materials in life insurance mathematics
and in statistics.
Museums Library, 2500 Museums Bldg., 764-0467
The Museums Library is made up of 11 separate specialized collections:
anthropology, birds, exhibits, fish, herbarium, herpetology, insects, mammals,
mollusks, museums, and paleontology.
Music Library, 3239 Moore Bldg., North Campus, 764.2512
The library's holdings include books, scores, andrecordings. Particularly notable
are the Women's Music Collection and the Montgomery Collection of Popular
American Music.
Natural Science Library, 3140 Kraus Natural Science Bldg., 764-1494
The collections focus on scientific ecology, biology, geology, and natural resources.
Special items include soil surveys and unique copies of masters theses from the
Department of Geological Sciences and the School of Natural Resources.
North Engineering Library (including the Great Lakes Library), 1100
Dow Bldg., North Campus, 764-5298
Holdings focus on nuclear engineering and include AEC technical reports.
Physics-Astronomy Library, 290 Dennison, 764-3442
Special features include star charts and extraterrestrial maps.
Public Health Library, M2030 School of Publc Health II, 764-5473
Materials include those on environmental and industrial health, matemal and child
health, population planning, and hospital administration. Among special holdings are
publications of the U.S. Public Health Service and the World Health Organization.
Social Work Library, 1548 Frieze Bldg., 764-5169
Holdings feature a large and comprehensive reprint collection and vertical file and
strong collections in social work and-social welfare organization.
Taubman Medical Library, 1135 E. Catherine Street, 763-3071
The collection serves faculty and students in medicine, nursing, and pharmacy.
Special features include online search access to more than 100 databases, including
MEDLINE, TOXLINE, and CANCERLIT.
Four additional UM libraries operate autonomously:
Kresge Business Administration Library, K2320 Business
Administration, 764-7356
Collections include publications on business administration and industrial relations.
Company directories and copies of reports of corporations listed on the stock exchange
are available.
William L. Clements Library, 909 S. University, 764-2347
Subject areas include early Americana and the history of exploration. Maps,
manuscripts, and colonial newspapers are featured.
Law Library, 5110 Legal Research, Law Quadrangle, 764-9322
Holdings include materials on Anglo-American, foreign comparative, and
international law. The library also provides major legal indexes and a complete
collection of American law repors.
Michigan Historical Collections, Bentley Library, 1150 Beal, North
Campus, 764-3482.
The Bentley is home to the Michigan Historical Collections and also handles all
archival materials related to the University. It features extensive manuscript and
photographic collections.
The University is the site of one independent library:
Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library, 1000 Beal, North Campus, 668-
2218
The library houses the congressional, vice-presidential, and presidential papers of
Gerald R. Ford and the White House central file and staff files from the Ford
Administration. It also features an audio/visual collection.
Quick-reference.
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Graduate Library Building
Circulation Services 764-0400
Microform Reading Rm. 764-2389
Serials Svcs. & Records 764-0503
Stacks 764-0413
Documents Center 764-0410
Map Library 764-0407
Reference Services 764-9373
Preservation Office 763-9316
Rare Books 764-9377
Interlibrary Loan 764-8584
Online Search Services 936-2408
Undergraduate Library
Building
General
Microcomputer Center
Reference Desk
Reserve Service
Buhr Facility
Reading Room
Stacks Office
764-7490
763-5406
763-4141
764-7493-
764-9364
763-9089
Friends of
the Library
University students are invited to
join the Friends of the University
Library at the special student
membership rate of $10.00. Mem-
bers of the Friends are eligible to
attend Library programs and recep-
tions and receive regular mailings
about Library activities. Member-
ship forms may be obtained from
the north circulation desk, 104
Graduate Library.
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some current acquisition files of the
Group's member and user insti-
tutions, as well as cataloging pro-
duced by the Library of Congress,
for materials not held at UM.
RLIN files include books, serials,
archival materials and manuscripts,
machine-readable data files, maps,
sound recordings, music scores, and
films and slides. As an RLG mem-
ber, the University Library is
afforded priority in borrowing many
such items for its users through
Interlibrary Loan. For further
information, see a librarian at any
online station.
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Excellence
at the Core
A library is at the heart of every
great university. Quiet yet vibrant.
with intellectual activity, it
preserves the cumulative record of
speculation, scholarship, and ex-
pression generated throughout the
ages while also encouraging fresh
responses to experience and
knowledge. And it responds to
change within its own resources, as
well. Joining the traditional
medium of print over the past
century have been such advances as
microforms, photoduplication,
audio/visual media, electronic
storage, searching, and retrieval
systems, and interlibrary tele-
communications networks, all of
which reveal, and indeed often
generate, new possibilities for
scholarly activity. In any uni-
versity, in other words, the library
is part of a vital organism that finds
intellectual nourishment in new
resources and technologies, and in
new accomplishments.
The University of Michigan
Library has been growing and
changing for a century and a half.
Today its international reputation as
a major research facility is firmly
established. With some 6,000,000
volumes, 66,000 serials, bur-
geoning electronic systems, and
hundreds of talented staff members,
it serves the entire University with
a comprehensive body of collec-
tions and services. And as the fifth
largest academic library in the
nation, it stands as a leading
participant in interlibrary programs
for resource-sharing and preser-
vation.
When the first separate Uni-
versity Library building was erected
in 1883, it was deliberately situated
at the very center of the original
campus, where the Graduate Library
now stands, as a reminder to
students of its place in their
education. This brief overview can.
hardly do more than introduce new
students to our many facilities and
services. (Individual library units
and departments issue detailed
descriptions of their collections,
services, and operating hours.) But
we hope these pages suggest that
the University Library and its users
still stand together at the center of
the Michigan tradition of explor-
ation, discovery, and renewal.
Every undergraduate who enrolls develop
in courses offered in the College of using e
Literature, Science, and the Arts is also tea
served by the Undergraduate individu
Library, located on the central request.
campus. Here some 200,000 ,TheI
books, journals, and other materials provide
form the basic collection for a Term P
liberal education. With long hours, (TAP)
abundant study space, and a staff student
concentrating on service to membe
undergraduates, the UGL is the success
place where most Michigan strategy
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works ranging from general use of
resources, such as encyclopedias and student
almanacs, to specialized materials libraria
on specific subjects. It also offers program
microfilm and computerized graduat
searching facilities. Reference peersu
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an who coordinates the
m, several minority under-
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use the Library and its
ter facilities to full
age. Counselors, who are
available by appointment and on a
drop-in basis, work at the Reference
Desk and at the Academic Resource
Center; they participate in the TAP
Program, as well.
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NORTH CAMPUS
Libraries
1 Art and Architecture
2 Asia
3 Buhr Shelving Facility
4 Business Administration
5 Chemistry
6 Clements
7 Dentistry
8 Engineering-Transportation
9 Fine Arts
10 Ford
11 Graduate
12 Information and Library Studies
13 Law
14 Mathematics
15 Michigan Historical/Bentley
16 Museums
17 Music
18 Natural Science
19 North Engineering
20 Physics-Astronomy
21 Public Health
22 Social Work
23 Taubman Medical
24 Undergraduate
With its monumental North
Building, dedicated in 1920,
enveloping a small remaining
section of its 19th-century
predecessor and its modern South
Wing, opened in 1970, rising high
above the central campus, the
Harlan. Hatcher Graduate Library
symbolizes the expansion of library
services to the University over
many years. The building contains
the Library system's primary
research collection of some 2.5
million volumes in the humanities
and social sciences, but the entire
UM community is served by the
Graduate Library's special services
and departments.
Information Center
2nd Floor, North
The Information Center is the
place to go for assistance in
working with the reference
collection, the card catalog, and the
Geac online circulation record, and
for arranging research consultations,
interlibrary loans, delivery of
materials from storage, and other
special services. The Center is
located near the main Reference
Room, the Index Room, and the
Public Catalog for convenient
access to essential research
materials.
Circulation Services
North and South Lobbies
Library materials may be charged
out and renewed at the north and
south circulation desks. The north
desk also takes requests for delivery
of items in storage, initiates
searches for unlocated materials,
places currently circulating items
on hold or recall, and collects fines.
In addition, it processes appli-
cations for borrowing privileges,
book lockers, and study carrels.
Documents Center
Room 320, North
The Documents Center provides
reference services for cataloged and
uncataloged government documents
held throughout the Library system.
Its own collection includes current
Congressional material, census
publications and related statistics,
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CENTRAL CAMPUS
A listing of University Library hours is now available online through the
campus computer network, UMnet. By responding UMLIBHOURS to the
"Which Host?" prompt, a user can call up regular and special hours of all
libraries in the system.
The South Wing of the Harlan Hatcher
Graduate Library, home of the largest
single library collection on the
Michigan campus.