Libraries

Howard-Tilton Memorial Library

As Tulane University's main library, the Howard-Tilton Memorial Library supports the university's undergraduate and graduate programs in the humanities, social sciences, and science and engineering. It also is a major cultural resource for researchers and scholars from throughout the Louisiana-Gulf Coast region. Its unique collections in areas such as Latin American studies, jazz and New Orleans history often draw researchers from around the globe.

 

Amistad Research Center

The Amistad Research Center began as the first archive documenting the modern civil rights movement. Today, the collection includes source materials related to the history of slavery, race relations, African American community development and the civil rights movement. The center also is home to more than 800 works of African and African American art, including works by several internationally renowned 19th and 20th century African American masters.

 

Architecture Library

This library houses standard reference materials in architecture, monographs on contemporary and historically eminent architects and their works as well as information on landscape architecture, building technology, energy, ecology, preservation and city planning.

 

Southeastern Architectural Archive

The archive comprises the largest collection of architectural drawings and building records in the South. The collection focuses on the built environment of New Orleans and Louisiana.

 

Lillian A. and Robert L. Turchin Library

The business library provides support for the teaching, learning and research activities of the A. B. Freeman School of Business, as well as assisting with the business and management information needs of Tulane students and faculty.

 

William Ransom Hogan Jazz Archive

The jazz archive is a renowned resource for New Orleans jazz research. The collection includes oral histories, recorded music, photographs and film, and sheet music and orchestrations. It also houses files of manuscripts, clippings and bibliographic references.

 

The Latin American Library

The Latin American Library is among the world's foremost collections in Latin American archaeology, anthropology, history, linguistics, art, architecture, film, women's studies, economics and many other subject areas. The collection comprises of more than 420,000 volumes and is one of the most comprehensive of its kind, including materials from the contact period to the present day.

 

Tulane Law Library

The Law Library supports the educational and research activities of the Tulane Law School. The library has a collection of approximately 400,000 volumes, including standard sources on U.S. federal and state law, foreign, international, and comparative law, civil law and maritime materials.

 

Louisiana Collection

The Louisiana Collection is a research library preserving publications (books, pamphlets and magazines) pertaining to all aspects of Louisiana from colonial times to the present, from anthropology to zoology. It includes one of the best collections of pre-World War II Louisiana publications in the state.

 

Manuscripts Department

The Manuscripts Department began in 1889 with the donation of a letter from Thomas Jefferson to M. duPlantier of New Orleans. Today the department is one of Louisiana's premier research archives. Its constantly expanding holdings currently comprise more than three linear miles of documents organized into more than 4,000 collections. These holdings are open to all.

 

Math Library

The Math Library serves the mathematics research needs of  the Tulane and the New Orleans communities.

 

Rudolph Matas Library

The health sciences library is the primary resource library of Tulane University School of Medicine and the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. 

 

Music and Media Collection

While much of the Music and Media Collection is being restored following flooding related to Hurricane Katrina, a temporary space for the collection is being configured on the 4th floor of the Howard-Tilton Memorial Library. Listening stations and some initial replacement music and media collections will be available. In time, the collection will be stronger than ever before.

 

Rare Books

Rare Books  preserves approximately 50,000 titles dating from a leaf of the Gutenberg Bible (ca. 1456) to recent first editions. These holdings include a wide range of formats, from miniatures no larger than one inch high, to volumes 40 inches tall; from 500-year-old books in as fine a condition as the day they were printed to 20th-century first editions that are crumbling from the acidity of their paper.

 

Special Collections

The Special Collections division includes University Archives, Hogan Jazz Archives, Rare Books, Manuscripts, the Louisiana Collection and the Southeastern Architectural Archives.

 

Tulane University Archives

University Archives preserves the official records of Tulane University and information about Tulane. The archive holds over 3,600 linear feet of materials -- primarily documents, but also in excess of 11,000 slides, 55,000 photographic negatives and more.

 

Nadine Vorhoff Library and Newcomb Archives at the Newcomb College Center for Research on Women

The Vorhoff Library and Newcomb Archives maintain the archives of Newcomb College; collects and preserves the records of organizations and individuals, photographs, scrapbooks, ephemera, oral histories and audiovisual materials; house a unique culinary history collection centered on Southern cooking traditions; and operate a circulating library of 10,000 volumes and more than 100 women's studies periodicals.