The Library 

LIBRARY FACILITIES 
The University of Texas at Austin Library is one of the larger university libraries in the United States. Available for use are over three million books, periodicals, microforms, and other materials. The University Library includes the Mirabeau B. Lamar Library (Main Library), the Undergraduate Library, fifteen branch libraries and eight special collections. Also on the campus are the Tarleton Law Library, the Humanities Research Center and the Lyndon Baines Johnson School of Public Affairs Library. 
Main Library. Entrance to this closed-shelf Library is on the second floor of the Main Building. The primary emphasis of the collection is in the areas of the Humanities and the Social Sciences, and it serves schools, colleges and departments in those subject fields. Additional services are offered through its Reference and Loan Departments. 
Undergraduate Library. Housed on the first three floors of the Academic Center Building, the Undergraduate Library is an open-shelf collection of approximately 175,000 books, current periodicals and newspapers. It is de­signed primarily to serve the needs of the undergraduate student and has many special facilities including private study rooms and an audio library. 
Humanities Research Center. This collection is located on three floors of the Humanities Research Center Building. Important research materials in English and American literature, bibliography, the history of science, photo­graphy and theater arts are to be found here. 
Eugene C. Barker Texas History Center. Located in Sid Richardson Hall, this collection includes three units. The Archives Collection consists of Texas historical documents and manuscripts. The Texas Collection contains printed materials on all phases of the history of Texas and the Southwest, Texas state documents, and official University publications. The Texas Newspaper Collec­tion is a research collection which includes Texas newspapers published before 1960. 
Latin American Collection. Housed in Sid Richardson Hall, this is a unique collection of books, manuscripts, micromaterials, newspapers, and maps re­lating to all countries in the western hemisphere south of the United States and to the Caribbean Islands. 
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Documents Collection. Located in Main Building 316, the Documents Collec­tion is a depository for United States government documents and United Nations documents. It also includes publications of many international organi­zations as well as a map collection. 
Branch Libraries. Serving students and faculties in the subject disciplines are branch libraries in architecture, art, Asian studies, biological sciences, busi­ness and economics, chemistry, classics, communications, education and psychology, engineering, geology, library science, mathematics, music, phar­macy, physics and astronomy, and social work. Not under the administration of the University librarian are the Law Library, Humanities Research Center, the LBJ School of Public Affairs Library, and the separately maintained col­lections that are in some departments. 
Guides to the UT Austin Library may be obtained from the Library Office, Main Building 2100. 
Spring, 1974 
(Note: The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, located on the eastern part of the campus, is operated by the National Archives and Records Service, under the General Services Administration. It is the first Presidential Library to begin operation in a scholarly center, and it is closely connected with all the University's resources for study of the 20th Century.) 
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