Tulane University Library

The Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, located off Freret Street on Tulane University's Uptown campus, is the university's main library and a major academic and cultural resource. It is here that library resources and services are provided to support the University's undergraduate and graduate programs in the humanities, social sciences, and science & engineering.

The Howard-Tilton Memorial Library offers a wide range of services for Tulane students. These include interlibrary loan, library and Internet workshops. Research assistance and on-site instruction is provided by librarians at the library's reference desk, which is surrounded by a collection of print reference sources and more than 30 PCs for students to access library databases and online resources.

Walk-in workshops are another service example. With an increasing array of online information resources available both in the library and on the campus network, walk-in instructional workshops for TULANet Voyager, Internet searching, and library databases are provided each semester at times and dates that are easy to fit into student schedules. No registration or sign-up is required.

While some university libraries limit services like interlibrary loan to use by graduate students and faculty, the Howard-Tilton library does not. Full interlibrary loan services are extended to undergraduates to enhance their involvement in the research process.

Howard-Tilton Memorial Library is an "open stack" library, which means that books on the shelves are freely accessible to all readers. There are public terminals located throughout the building to access the library catalog. This is the on-line catalog of the libraries at Tulane University, with the exception of the Law Library.

• Write or print the call numbers that you need.
• Consult a call number floor guide (available at the Reference Desk) to determine on which floor books in that classification are shelved. Location Charts are also displayed near throughout the building.
• Go to the appropriate floor and shelf to get your book. If it is not there, examine other books in the same classification to see if a substitute will be satisfactory. Also check the reshelving area on each stack level. If no substitute is acceptable, ask at the Circulation Desk for assistance in locating the book, or recalling and reserving it for your use.
• Present the book and your ID card at the Circulation Desk. A book which is to be removed from the building must be charged out at the Circulation Desk in the first floor lobby. The Library has an on-line computerized circulation system which utilizes barcodes in the back of the books and on the back of ID cards. A record of the loan is automatically recorded when the two barcode labels are scanned by the computer equipment. Items checked out immediately appear in the library catalog as checked out with the due date.