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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)


General Library


Michigan Historical Collection

(Horace H. Rackham Building)


Bentley Historical Collection

(Bentley Library-North Campus - 1973)


William L. Clements Library




SCHOOLS, COLLEGES, DEPARTMENT LIBRARIES



ARCHITECTURE


Architecture Library

(Lorch Hall)



DENTISTRY


Medical & Dental Library

(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


Transportation Library



LAW

Law Library



                         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


Medical Library

(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


Bureau of Government Library

(Haven Hall)


West Quadrangle Library



The University of Michigan Library Reading Room 1883