The University of Michigan Libraries
History of the University of Michigan Libraries
The University of Michigan - An Encyclopedic Survey
University of Michigan Libraries in 1944
(The General Library had jurisdiction over various
School, College & Departmental Libraries)
Michigan Historical Collection
(Horace H. Rackham Building)
(Bentley Library-North Campus - 1973)
SCHOOLS, COLLEGES, DEPARTMENT LIBRARIES
ARCHITECTURE
Architecture Library
(Lorch Hall)
DENTISTRY
(General Library)
Taft Library of the School of Dentistry
(Dental Building)
EDUCATION
School of Education Library
(Fourth Floor of University Elementary School Building)
ENGINEERING
East Engineering Library
(Third floor of East Engineering – books & periodicals on chemical, metallurgical, aeronautical engineering & metal processing)
West Engineering Library
LAW
LITERATURE, SCIENCE & THE ARTS
Angell Hall Study Hall
(Second floor of Angell Hall for LS&A Students)
Astronomy Library
(University Observatory)
Chemistry & Pharmacy Library
(Chemistry Building)
Economics-Mathematics Library
(Third floor of Angell Hall)
Forestry Library
(Natural Science Building)
Natural Science Library
(psychology, mineralogy, geology, zoology and botany)
(Natural Science Building)
McMath-Hulbert Observatory
(Library at Lake Angelus)
Museums Library
(University Museum Building)
(Swales Library of Ornithology & Louis C. C. Krieger Mycological Library)
Physics Library
(Second Floor of Randall Laboratory)
MEDICAL
(General Library Building)
MUSIC
School of Music Library
(Sixth Floor of Burton Memorial Tower)
(In 1944 contained in addition to volumes, periodicals, scores,
and pieces of sheet music, over 5000 phonograph records.)
PUBLIC HEALTH
School of Public Health Library
(New Public Health Building)
The following libraries were separate departments but their
books were catalogued in the General Library
Professor John C. Worley’s Transportation Library
School of Business Library
(Haven Hall)
West Quadrangle Library
The University of Michigan Library Reading Room 1883
