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Art,
Architecture & Engineering Library
The Art, Architecture & Engineering
Library bridges art and technology with its collection in art and design,
architecture, engineering, and urban planning. With holdings in excess
of 600,000 volumes, over 200 databases, thousands of online journals,
and a team of specialist librarians, the library is well positioned
to respond to your information needs. Strengths in the special collections
include publications from the first decades of the twentieth century,
especially those by Le Corbusier and various Bauhaus designers, as well
as Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright.
Dentistry
Library
The University of
Michigan Dentistry Library has one of the most comprehensive dental
collections in the country. Currently, the library holds over 700 periodicals
titles and includes virtually every pertinent dental journal published
in English, as well as selected foreign language titles. The collection
and services of the Dentistry Library act to support the teaching, research
and clinical services of the University of Michigan School of Dentistry,
and serve as a national resource.
Fine
Arts Library
The Fine Arts Library
serves students and faculty in the History
of Art Department, and supports the teaching, research, and curatorial
functions of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey
Museum of Archaeology. Located on the second floor of Tappan Hall,
the library contains over 80,000 volumes encompassing the history, theory,
and criticism of the visual arts, which include architecture, sculpture,
painting, prints, drawings and the decorative arts. Resources for contemporary
art and design, architecture, engineering, and urban planning can be
found at the Art, Architecture &
Engineering Library
on North Campus.
Hatcher
Graduate Library
The Harlan Hatcher
Graduate Library is the University of Michigan's primary research collection
for the humanities and social sciences. The Graduate Library collection
numbers approximately 3.5 million volumes including 10,000 journals
and periodical subscriptions written in over a hundred languages, and
covering the broadest imaginable array of subject specialties.
- Area
Programs
The Area Programs Libraries consist of the Near East Division, the Slavic
and East European Division, the South Asia Division, and the Southeast
Asia Division. Within the Graduate Library, each division is an independent
unit which selects and acquires library materials, solicits and accepts
purchase recommendations, catalogues the collection, provides assistance
to library users in the use of the unit's collection, and offers formal
instruction in the bibliographic resources in the unit's area of expertise.
- Asia
Library
The Asia Library houses pone of the nation's foremost collections of
Chinese, Japanese, and Korean language resources in all formats. The
collection of the Asia Library is an extension of the Graduate Library's
research collections for humanities and social sciences. Holdings include
579,575 books, 38,662 reels of micro- film, 30,447 sheets of microfiche,
2,271 current serial titles and 79 newspapers (316,392 volumes, 28,529
reels and 22,389 sheets in Chinese, 255,439 volumes, 9,838 reels and
8,058 sheets in Japanese and 7,744 volumes,295 reels in Korean).
- Documents
Center
The University of Michigan Library is a depository for publications
of the United States Government, State of Michigan, United Nations,
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Asian Development
Bank, South Pacific Commission and the Government of Canada. Depository
status ensures receipt of the majority of important documents, though
not all. The Law Library is the depository for the European Union.
- Information
and Library Studies Library
The library contains approximately 65,000 volumes and 450 current journal
titles covering all aspects of librarianship and information technology.
It also includes a comprehensive collection of national and international
award winning children's books.
- Map
Library
The University of Michigan Map Library contains a wide array of cartographic
materials, including maps, atlases, gazetteers, geographical dictionaries,
and reference works. The Library is also a campus resource center for
Geographic Information Systems (GIS), providing access to software and
data in support of instruction and research.
- Papyrology
Library
With over 7,000 inventory numbers and more than10,000 individual fragments,
the University of Michigan is home to one of the largest collections
of papyri in the world. The Michigan papyri range from the earlier part
of the third century B.C. to the eighth century A.D. The great majority
of them are written in Greek, but there are also considerable numbers
in Latin, Coptic, Arabic, and even a few in Egyptian Demotic. Their
content covers topics of all sorts: Biblical fragments, religious writings,
public and private documents, private letters, astronomical, astrological,
mathematical, and magical texts.
- Special
Collections Library
The Special Collections Library occupies the entire seventh floor of
the Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library as well as the Papyrology Room on
the eighth floor. The Special Collections Library holds internationally
recognized collections of books, serials, ancient and modern manuscripts,
posters, playbills, photographs, pamphlets, and other materials. Tracing
its roots back to one of the earliest Rare Book Rooms in the United
States, these collections are the primary basis of research for many
scholars, both at the University of Michigan and from around the world.
Of particular prominence amidst the many treasures of the Special Collections
Library is the Labadie
Collection on anarchy and social movements.
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Museums
Library
The Museums Library
supports the principal information needs of researchers in the Museums
of Anthropology, Exhibits, Paleontology, Zoology and the University
Herbarium. The Library collections include approximately 118,000 cataloged
volumes specialize in the fields of taxonomic botany and zoology, behavioral
biology, paleontology and archaeological anthropology.
Music
Library
The Music Library
is located on the third floor of the Earl V. Moore School
of Music Building on North Campus in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The Music
Library's collection supports the curriculum of the School of Music
in performance, musicology, composition, music theory, music education,
and dance. Over the course of its history, the Music Library has grown
from a small departmental collection to a major research library containing
monographs, scores, serials, sound and video recordings, and microforms.
Public
Health Library
The PHISA Library
houses one of the most comprehensive collections of public health books
and journals in the U.S. The collection includes over 74,000 volumes
relating to health services management, environmental and industrial
health, maternal and child health care, population planning, health
behavior and health education, community health programs, biostatistics,
human nutrition, international health, epidemiology, and public health
policy and administration. The Library is noted for its extensive collection
of publications from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,
the World Health Organization, and the Pan American Health Organization.
Currently, the Library receives over 430 periodicals, provides reference
service and mediated database searches, and facilitates use and access
to many CD-ROMs on a variety of public health topics.
Shapiro
Library
The Harold T. and
Vivian B. Shapiro Library building houses within it three distinct libraries:
- Askwith Media
Library
The Askwith Media Library houses a collection of over
25,000 titles, which includes feature films, documentaries, animated
shorts and instructional films and videos. Title formats include DVDs,
VHS and 3/4" videotapes, 16mm films, CD-ROM's, audio cassettes, audio CDs
and laserdiscs.
- Shapiro Science Library
The Shapiro Science Library, located on the 3rd and 4th floors of the
Shapiro Library, is the primary library on the University of Michigan
campus supporting collections, research and instruction for the basic
sciences: Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Geology, Natural Resources,
Mathematics, Physics and Statistics. The Library was formed in 1995
when four departmental libraries were combined. The resulting collection
has about 400,000 volumes, over 2,000 print journal subscriptions (about
45% of which are also available in electronic format) and access to
a large number of databases.
Social
Work Library
The Social Work
Library has an onsite collection of over 40,00 volumes and 200 subscriptions
to journals and other periodicals. The print materials housed in the
Social Work Library are primarily in the fields of social work, social
welfare administration, child welfare, gerontology, psychotherapy and
related subjects. The collections of the Social Work Library are supplemented
by other campus libraries, especially by material held in the Harlan
Hatcher Graduate Library, the Taubman Medical Library, the Documents
Center, and the Public Health Information Services and Access Library.
Taubman
Medical Library
The A. Alfred Taubman
Medical Library is one of the largest medical libraries in the country.
It serves the University of Michigan
Health System as well as the Medical
School, School of Nursing,
and College of Pharmacy.
The Library's focus is on the research, education and clinical literature.
The journal literature, both print and electronic is the most current
record of advances in knowledge and is therefore emphasized over other
published forms in this library. The Library is both a working and a
historical collection. Its contents reflect the current state of knowledge
and practice in each successive period, thus preserving a record of
both cultural and scientific development in medicine. The Alfred Taubman
Medical Library Rare Book Room serves as a resource for researchers
in the history of medicine. It contains approximately 6,300 volumes
of medical works of scholarly significance, original research and medical
classics. With titles dating from 1470 to the early 20th century, the
collections consist primarily of pre-1822 imprints and include 82 incunabula,
medical fugitive sheets, medical cartoons, portraits, and illustrations,
and a collection of medical magic amulets.
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