This page provides information about study areas available by university library location.

Art, Architecture & Engineering Library:

Study areas are located on all floors. The second floor study rooms are available by reservation or on a walk-in basis if they are not being used.

Fine Arts Library:

Fine Arts Library has a total of 76 study spaces and 24 seating carrels that are for history of art graduate students only.

Hatcher Graduate Library:

Study areas are located all floors. 132 assigned, locked carrels are located on floors 3-6 of the South building, which are assigned to University of Michigan doctoral candidates or faculty members who are actively engaged in writing a dissertation or a work for publication. Stacks level 3-6 in the South building and open study space in the North building stacks are available to graduate and undergraduate students on a first-come, first served basis.

Health Sciences Libraries:

Public Health Library & Informatics has an open study space with several tables and chairs for individual or group study.  Individuals may prefer to use the study carrels along the perimeter of the library or to lounge at one of the sofa chairs in the Current Journals area.

Taubman Medical Library has 11 group study rooms, plus study seating in the library for about 200 patrons.  Four of the group study rooms have priority use by medical students from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm, but can be used by anyone if medical students are not using them. Classroom services (through the Medical Schooll) handles reservations for these rooms, not the library.  Reservation information is online.

Music Library:

Music Library has 50 assigned study carrels (for School of Music, Theatre & Dance faculty & students only), as well as ample open (table) study space on the main and balcony levels.

Shapiro Science Library:

Tables and chairs are provided throughout the third and fourth floors for group and individual work as well as consulting and reading the collection. While the tables near the Science Reference desk, computer stations and copiers do not offer much quiet study space, the seating area towards the south end of the floor (facing South University) may be less noisy. The Current Periodicals Room on the third floor provides comfortable seating and a quiet study space. There are two group study rooms on the third floor. Priority is given to groups of 3 or more people who wish to study in a private setting. University of Michigan graduate students in the sciences needing quiet space in the library have access to the fourth floor Graduate Student Study Room. The key is available for checkout at the first floor circulation desk to eligible graduate students using a valid University of Michigan I.D.

Shapiro Undergraduate Library:

Study areas are located on all floors. Several group study rooms are available on the second floor.

Social Work Library:

There are two group study rooms, available for use only by social work students, staff, and faculty on a reservation basis.

Sumner and Laura Foster Library:

Foster is one of the quieter libraries on campus, so is ideal for those who are looking for a quiet place to study.