Notable Collections

The Labadie Collection is the oldest research collection of radical history in the United States, documenting a wide variety of international social protest movements of the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. It is named for anarchist and labor organizer Joseph Antoine Labadie (1850-1933).

The MLibrary Latin American & Caribbean Studies collection spans a variety of disciplines and libraries on the UM campus. Notable strengths include colonial history, Caribbean Studies, slavery, gender, race & ethnicity and bibliography.

The University of Michigan Science Library has one of the largest and most comprehensive mathematics collections in the country. The historical collection is also particularly noteworthy, and many rare mathematics books are held in UM Library’s Special Collections.

The rich holdings of The University of Michigan Libraries represent the most significant repository of Philippine materials in the United States, particularly for the very late Spanish period and the whole American colonial times.