Tulane University: Student Resources and Student Life
2008-2009 Academic Year
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The Southeastern Architectural Archive, in Jones Hall, has more than three
million items, including 500,000 architectural drawings and 25,000 photographs.
It also has a gallery with permanent and temporary exhibits.
The Architecture Library, a branch of the Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, is
located in the School of Architecture in the Stoll Reading Room, Room 202,
Richardson Memorial Building. The library is open to all members of the Tulane
community as well as to the general public. Its main focus is to afford the School
of Architecture faculty and students a place where they may readily access the
standard as well as the most current print/electronic information necessary for
their course and research work. Currently the library contains 14,500 volumes and
maintains subscriptions to 235 serials, including the Avery Index to Architectural
Periodicals on the World-Wide Web.
The Lillian A. and Robert L. Turchin Library of the A.B. Freeman School of
Business, in Goldring/Woldenberg Hall, supports the teaching and research needs
of the students and faculty within the Freeman School of Business. The library
contains nearly 30,000 volumes, as well as 250 active serial publications.
The library of Tulane Law School, in John Giffen Weinmann Hall, contains
more than 500,000 volumes in hard copy and microform, including court reports,
federal statutes and codes, state statutes, the principal digests, and the National
Reporter System. The library also maintains extensive collections on Admiralty
and Comparative Law.
The Amistad Research Center, in Tilton Hall, contains more than 10 million
manuscripts, other primary documents, 23,000 books, 260,000 photographs, and
works of art concerning the history of America's ethnic minorities, race relations,
and civil rights since the 18th century. It also has a gallery with temporary
exhibits.
The A. H. Clifford Mathematics Research Library, in 431 Gibson Hall, is a
specialized research library containing approximately 15,000 books and bound
journals.
The Rudolph Matas Medical Library, on the second floor of the School of
Medicine on Tulane Avenue, contains over 160,000 volumes and subscriptions to
over 1,000 medical journals.
The Tulane Regional Primate Research Center, near Covington, Louisiana,
maintains a library of approximately 11,000 volumes, 23,000 scientific reprints,
and 250 microforms.
The Meade Natural History Library, in the Riverside Research Laboratories, is
located at the F. Edward Hebert Center near Belle Chasse, Louisiana. The library