Quick Guide to the Library

Services

Circulation
Your Lawrence I.D. serves as your library card--be sure to bring it with you to the library. Loan periods are 28 days for books and scores, 14 days for CDs, 7 days for videos and DVDs. We also have video games, audio books, language media, a variety of equipment, and more. Please see the Circulation page for more information.
Reserves
Books and other materials placed on reserve by professors are available at the north end of the Circulation Desk. Reserve materials circulate for two hours or three days; loan periods for course reserves are designated by the professor.
Reference
Until 10:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday and until 4:00 p.m. on Friday, and Sundays 1:00-10:00 p.m. when school is in session. Assistance is also available during breaks and over the summer during regular library hours.
Media Services
The central location for musical scores, videos, audio CDs, and language learning materials. The Media collections include over 20,000 audio-visual items and over 14,000 musical scores. Facilities also include video viewing rooms and listening stations.
Interlibrary Loan (ILL)
For Lawrence students, faculty and staff. You can place a request electronically using our online forms, by clicking the Find It button when searching our databases, or you can use the paper forms available at the circulation desk on the library's first floor.
Technical Services
Located in the offices at the east end of the first floor, Technical Services is where library materials are ordered, received, cataloged and processed. Without the work of Technical Services you wouldn't be able to find anything in the library.

Collections

Main Collection and Online Catalog
The Seeley G. Mudd Library contains nearly 400,000 book volumes. Books, as well as journals, CDs, videos, atlases, and more, are cataloged in LUCIA, the library's online catalog.
New Books
Selections from our new acquisitions will be displayed for a limited time on the shelf near the circulation desk. Subscribe to our RSS feeds with your favorite feed reader to receive updates about new books, movies, and CDs that have been added to the collection.
Music Collections
The music collections currently include over 20,000 audio-visual items and over 14,000 musical scores in addition to reference works and other materials related to music in the main library collections. The Music Librarian can help you with questions relating to any aspect of research in music.
Electronic Resources
The library is the virtual home of many electronic resources in a variety of forms. These resources include encyclopedias, reference works, indexes to and full-text of journals, and electronic books.
Periodicals
Seeley G. Mudd Library subscribes to over 1,700 periodicals. Be sure to check LUCIA (the library's online catalog) or the printed periodical lists found throughout the library to verify what the library owns, whether it is in electronic format or paper, and where it is shelved.
Visual Resources
Located in the Wriston Art Center and online, the Visual Resources Library is the place to go for images in a wide range of subject areas, from ancient architecture and illuminated manuscripts to contemporary art and photography.
Government Documents
The library receives documents from the United States federal government and from the state of Wisconsin. The library's Guide to Government Documents will help you navigate through the collection. Both federal and Wisconsin documents are located on the library’s second floor.
Special Non-Circulating Collections
Please see a librarian in order to gain access to the following special collections:
Archives: Located on level B, on the east side of the building.
Milwaukee-Downer Room collection: Located on first floor near the reference desk.
Lincoln Reading Room collection: Located on the first floor, in the northeast corner. Contains collections of books and other materials related to Abraham Lincoln and the U.S. Civil War.

Study Spaces

The library offers a variety of study spaces including individual study carrels, group study rooms, seminar rooms, and assignable individual study rooms. The second, third, and fourth floors are designated as quiet study spaces. Study carrels (on all floors of the library) and group study rooms (on the second and third floors) are available on a first-come-first-served basis and cannot be reserved. For more information, see our spaces in the library page. Periodicals and other library materials left in carrels and rooms which are not checked out will be re-shelved daily.
There are several other rooms in the library that are available to Lawrence students, faculty, and staff only. The Lincoln Reading Room, the Milwaukee-Downer Room and video classroom 401 can be reserved through thecampus Room Reservation Application.
The library also offers nine individual study rooms (six on fourth floor and 3 on second floor) that are assigned to students on a term-by-term basis. Preference is given to seniors working on honors projects and then to students whose research depends heavily on library materials. If you are interested in applying for an office submit the student office request form.

Additional Information

Computers
PC and Macintosh computers for word processing, spreadsheet programs, and more are available in the Information Technology Center (ITC) on the library's second floor, and in the computer carrels on the second, third and fourth floors. Library research computers for Internet access and other research use are available on in the reference area on the first floor of the library; please read the library's Computer Use Policy before using library computers.
Copy Machines
One copy machine is located in the library on the first floor near the Circulation Desk. Cost is ten cents per side for an 8 1/2 x 11 copy. Other copying costs:
8 1/2 x 11 copies color copies are fifty cents per side; 11 x 17 black & white copies are twenty cents per side; 11 x 17 color copies are one dollar per side.
Staplers, a hole punch, a paper cutter, and more are available in the copying area.
Lockers
Key-operated lockers are provided for short term storage of personal and checked-out library materials for students who wish to secure their belongings while studying in the library. The lockers are located on the south end of the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th floors. Keys may be checked out for 28-day circulation periods from the circulation desk using the barcode on the student ID card. Lockers are inspected periodically, and library materials which are not properly checked out are removed and returned to the stacks. Please, inquire at the Circulation Desk for more information.
Telephones
Campus telephones are located in the vestibule inside the library's entrance and on the second, third, and fourth floors.
Food and Beverages
Please make sure your beverages are kept in containers with covers. Food should be limited to that which could be obtained from a vending machine, and does not not have an odor that will distract other patrons.

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