Libraries & Departments
Libraries & Departments
Turchin Business Library
The primary mission of the Lillian A. and Robert L. Turchin Library is to serve the research needs of the students, faculty, and staff of the A.B. Freeman School of Business. Located on the 3rd floor of Goldring-Woldenberg Hall, the library acquires information to support this mission, regardless of format. Library facilities include the Study Commons, with 6 break-out rooms and group and individual study tables, and the Research Center, offering research assistance, books and journals, course reserves, and a Bloomberg terminal.
Howard-Tilton Memorial Library
Howard-Tilton Memorial Library is Tulane University's main library with nearly 4 million volumes, 600+ database subscriptions, over 100 computers with specialized software, more than 38,000 audio recordings, and more than 21,000 DVDs. In the library you will find expert research help from librarians, extensive special collections, technology assistance, printers, and a coffee shop.
Architecture Library
Architecture Library
The Architecture Library is a unit of Tulane University Libraries in association with the Southeastern Architectural Archive (SEAA). Collections are primarily focused on current architecture publications, but also include works related to urban design, sustainability, and historic preservation.
Louisiana Research Collection
Louisiana Research Collection
The Louisiana Research Collection (LaRC) is the oldest, largest, and most comprehensive research center for New Orleans and the second largest for Louisiana. As an integrated research library and archives, LaRC offers a full range of library and archival research resources, from books and manuscripts to maps and images.
Music & Media Center
Music & Media Center
Located on the 4th floor of Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, the Music & Media Center is the primary service point for music reference, sound recordings, and video recordings.
University Archives
University Archives
The University Archives comprises one of our richest sources of information on campus. We invite you to visit the "physical memory" of Tulane University.
Hogan Jazz Archive
Hogan Jazz Archive
The Hogan Jazz Archive is the leading research center for the study of New Orleans jazz and related musical genres, including New Orleans ragtime, gospel, blues, rhythm and blues, and Creole songs.
Math Library
Math Library
The Math Library serves the faculty and graduate students of the Mathematics Department and all other sections of Tulane University in mathematics oriented research, as well as the New Orleans academic community.
Rare Books
Rare Books
Special Collections' Rare Books unit preserves approximately 50,000 titles dating from a leaf of the Gutenberg Bible (ca. 1456) to recent first editions.
The Latin American Library
The Latin American Library
The Latin American Library is among the world's foremost collections of Latin American research materials and one of the most comprehensive of its kind with over 510,000 volumes, 640 current periodical subscriptions, substantial collections of rare books, ephemera, manuscripts and an image archive, as well as a growing number of electronic resources.*
Microforms & Newspapers
Microforms & Newspapers
Located on the 2nd floor of Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, the Microforms & Newspapers Department houses printed newspapers and magazines as well as a vast collection of microfilm and microfiche resources.
Southeastern Architechtural Archive
Southeastern Architechtural Archive
The Southeastern Architectural Archive is the largest repository of architectural records in the southern United States. The SEAA has progressively sought to enhance the preservation and conservation of architectural records associated with the built environment of the southeastern Gulf Region.