College Library; 600 North Park Street, 262-3245 College Library offers primary service to undergraduates at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The library has 24-hour service, innovative digital-media and active learning classroom spaces, large computing facilities, a variety of study spaces to meet group and individual needs, a café, and browsing collections serving introductory research needs across all disciplines.
Arts & Humanities
Art Library (Kohler); 160 Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, 263-2258 Specialties: Art, architecture, design, decorative arts, graphics arts, and photography
Historical Society Library; Wisconsin Historical Society, 816 State Street Mall, 264-6535 Specialties: North American and Wisconsin History, genealogy, politics and related subjects, government publications, newspapers, and women’s and ethnic studies. The library contains over 2.3 million items in the field of American history. The collection of nearly 10,000 general-interest newspapers, dating from the 18th – 21st centuries, is the second largest in the country after the Library of Congress.
Memorial Library; 728 State Street Mall, 262-3193 Memorial Library is the principal research facility on campus for the social sciences and humanities. It is also the largest library in the state of Wisconsin with more than 3.5 million volumes. Patrons from all over the world total more than 1 million visits each year. Specialized collections at Memorial include an extensive Periodicals collections, a large selection of domestic and foreign newspapers, Special Collections, and an InfoLab.
Music Library (Mills); B162 Memorial Library, 263-1884 Specialties: Music books and journals, scores, recordings, and videocassettes.
Special Collections; 976 Memorial Library, 262-3243 Specialties: Rare books, manuscripts, printed ephemera, other special collections and exhibits.
Wisconsin Center for Film & Theater Research; 412 Wisconsin Historical Society, 816 State Street Mall, 264-6466 Specialties: Manuscripts, stills, and clippings. Film viewing by advance appointment only.
Life Sciences
Ebling Library (Health Sciences); Health Sciences Learning Center, 750 Highland Avenue, 262-2020 Specialties: Basic and clinical biomedical sciences, neurosciences, biotechnology, history of health sciences, nursing, pharmacy, pharmacology, toxicology, allied health, and health administration.
Limnology Library (Center for Limnology); 211 Limnology Laboratory, 262-4439 Specialties: Non-circulating materials on fresh water and marine biology, fisheries, and lake ecology.
Steenbock Library (Science & Engineering); 550 Babcock Drive, 262-9635 Specialties: Agriculture, life sciences, natural resources, and veterinary medicine.
Wisconsin’s Water Library; 238 Goodnight Hall, 262-3069 Specialties: Water resources with an emphasis on Wisconsin and the Great Lakes.
Physical Sciences
AMP Library 1150 Chamberlin Hall, 263-1721 (Astronomy, Math, and Physics Library) Specialties: Physics, astrophysics, astronomy, pure and applied mathematics, statistics – limited, computer science – limited
Archives (UW-Madison); 425 Steenbock Library , 262-5629 Specialties: Archives and publications from the administrators, faculty, staff and students of the UW-Madison, UW System, and UW-Extension; photographs and memorabilia, manuscripts, oral history, and records management.
Business Library; 2200 Grainger Hall, 262-5935 Specialties: Accounting, business, finance, marketing, management, real estate, and insurance.
Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC); 401 Teacher Education Bldg, 263-3720 Specialties: Children’s literature research library and book examination center for adults. Non-circulating historical, contemporary, multicultural, regional alternative press, and reference materials.
Data & Information Services Center; 3325 Social Science, 262-0750 Specialties: Reference service and archive for social science numeric data sets.
Information School Library; 4191 Helen C. White Hall, 263-2960 Specialties: Library and information science and children’s literature.
Journalism Reading Room; 2130 Vilas Hall, 263-3387 Specialties: Journalism, mass communications, mass communications law, advertising, public relations, and photojournalism.
L&S Learning Support Services (LSS); 259 Van Hise Hall, 262-1408 Specialties: AV instructional materials in more than 100 languages; English as a Second Language; music, sciences, social sciences and other L&S subjects; live foreign language satellite broadcasts; open access student computer lab with 43 workstations.
Law Library; Law School Building, 975 Bascom Mall, 262-1128 Specialties: U.S., Wisconsin, foreign and international law; criminal justice.
Map Library (Arthur H. Robinson); 310 Science Hall, 262-1471 Specialties: Maps and aerial photography, geography, cartography and GIS (Geographic Information Systems).
Memorial Library; 728 State Street Mall, 262-3193 Memorial Library is the principal research facility on campus for the social sciences and humanities. Specialized collections at Memorial include an extensive Periodicals collections, a large selection of domestic and foreign newspapers, Special Collections, and an InfoLab.
Media, Education Resources, and Information Technology (MERIT); 301 Teacher Education Building, 263-4750 Specialties: Teacher education, instruction and children’s print and non-print materials. The library also has a computer lab and media.
Social Work Library (Franks); 236 School of Social Work Building, 263-3840 Specialties: Social work, aging, family problems, child abuse, disabilities, mental health, minorities, and substance abuse.