Tulane University: Student Resources and Student Life
2008-2009 Academic Year
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POLICIES AND PROCEDURES
The use of Tulane University network and computing facilities is a privilege that
comes with responsibilities. Students are required to read, understand, and abide
by the policy on use of networks and computers at
http://tis.tulane.edu/Policies/General.cfm.
The university's 10 libraries together house approximately 2,300,000 volumes
and over 15,000 currently received serial titles.
The Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, the general library of the university, is
centrally located on campus. Most areas of the general book stacks are open to
readers. The library provides seating for 800 readers, including 94 faculty study
rooms, 186 separate study areas for graduate students, and 600 carrels for general
use.
Howard-Tilton's holdings include a total book stock of about 1,900,000 volumes,
organized into a general reference/bibliographic services area and a number of
special areas: government documents, newspapers and microforms, the Latin
American Library, and the Maxwell Music Library. Other special areas located in
Jones Hall include rare books, manuscripts, the University Archives, the
Southeastern Architectural Archive and the William Ransom Hogan Jazz Archive.
The library is also a depository of federal documents.
The Latin American Library, in the Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, contains
220,000 volumes and collections of newspapers, periodicals, and photographs.
The library, which has extensive rare book and manuscript holdings, specializes
in Mexican, Brazilian, and Central American materials.
The Maxwell Music Library, in the Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, contains
about 45,514 volumes of books, periodicals, and music scores. The library also
features more than 21,672 titles of non-book materials (records, compact disks,
video disks, magnetic tapes, microfilms) including the collected works and
scholarly editions of composers and important collections such as various
"Denkmaeler" editions and the "Monuments of Music" series. There is an
unusually broad collection of early music manuscripts on microfilm or in
facsimile editions, partly with critical text.
The William Ransom Hogan Jazz Archive, in Jones Hall, houses a collection of
interview and music tapes, phonograph records, sheet music, and thousands of
other items on traditional and contemporary New Orleans music.
The William Ranson Hogan Jazz Archive preserves oral histories, music,
photographs, sheet music, clippings, sound recordings, and other materials about
Jazz in America. It focuses primarily on the New Orleans style.