TULU Project

The TU/LU Undergraduate Cooperative Borrowing Project provides undergraduate students at Tulane University and Loyola University of New Orleans with expanded access to a wide array of library materials at Tulane's Howard-Tilton Memorial Library and at Loyola's J. Edgar & Louise S. Monroe Library.

To participate in this project, undergraduate students at the two universities will need to obtain a TU/LU card from their home library. The business, medical, and law libraries at Tulane and the law library at Loyola are not participating in this project; therefore your TU/LU card will not be honored at these libraries.

TU/LU participants are responsible for the loan periods from the home library and will be responsible for any fees and fines associated with overdue or lost books.



Howard-Tilton Memorial Library Tulane University

Located at 7001 Freret Street, the Howard-Tilton Memorial Library contains nearly 2 million print volumes and more than 7,750 current serials. It is among the 123 top research-level libraries in North America belonging to the Association of Research Libraries and is the largest private research collection in Louisiana. The Howard-Tilton library supports Tulane's academic programs in the humanities, social sciences, and science & engineering.


Distinctive Collections


The Latin American Library

One of the world's foremost research collections for Latin American archaeology, anthropology, history, linguistics, art, architecture, film, women's studies, economics, and many other subject areas.

Music and Media Center

More than 60,000 materials dealing music including books, scores, periodicals, and recordings.

Government Documents

One of the oldest and largest federal depositories in Louisiana, established by Congress in 1884.

Architecture Library

Housed separately in Richardson Memorial Hall, is this collection of books, serials and other items supporting the architectural studies.

Special Collections in Jones Hall

The Howard-Tilton Memorial Library includes a Special Collections division located in Jones Hall located directly across the parking lot from the entrance to the main library building. The special collections house rare and unique research materials that cannot be checked out but are available for onsite use. These include the Hogan Jazz Archive, the Southeastern Architectural Archive, Rare Books, Manuscripts, the University Archive, and a Louisiana Collection.

J. Edgar & Louise S. Monroe Library

Loyola University - The J. Edgar & Louise S. Monroe Library is located in the heart of Loyola's main campus immediately off of Calhoun Street. The Monroe Library features state-of-the-art teaching and learning facilities including the new Information Literacy Living Room, multimedia classrooms, and a multimedia Macintosh classroom for music and visual arts production. The Monroe Library offers more than 350,000 books and periodical volumes and subscribes to 1,300 print periodicals and newspapers. The library also offers a music collection with scores and CDs. The Monroe Library was the 2003 recipient of the Association of College and Research Libraries' Excellence in Academic Libraries Award.

The Monroe Library is dedicated to the cooperative borrowing agreement between Loyola and Tulane. The TU/LU loan period for books is three weeks during the fall and spring semester and two weeks during the summer vacation. For more information about fees and fines, go to http://library.loyno.edu/services_collections/borrowing/fines.php.


Distinctive Collections


Music Collection

Loyola's music collections & services are housed primarily on the first floor of the Monroe Library and make up the principal collection of music materials at Loyola University New Orleans. In addition to traditional music curricula, we support multi-disciplinary programs such as Music Therapy, Music Education and Music Business. Music books, scores, CDs, LPs, current periodicals, and listening equipment are located together on the Monroe Library's first floor. Past issues of our periodicals (bound periodicals) are integrated in the bound periodicals section of the Monroe Library's second floor. Music reference is integrated into our reference section, behind the Reference Desk on the first floor.

Special Collections & Archives

This department preserves materials related to the history of Louisiana, the South, the Society of Jesus, and the university. The collection derives its strength largely from its Jesuit holdings, though other highlights include: Walker Percy and His Circle Collection, the Joseph-Aurélien Cornet Collection, Lafcadio Hearn Correspondence, H.L. Mencken Letters, and the Archives of the Ecology Center of Louisiana. The special collections & archives house rare and unique research materials that cannot be checked out, but are available for onsite use. Located on the third floor of the Monroe Library.

Media Collection

The Monroe Library's media collection has instructional titles in a variety of subjects and formats. Titles are primarily available in VHS videotape and DVD. Tulane students may view media in one of the media carrels on the first floor of the library near the circulation desk.

The Lindy Boggs National Center for Community Literacy

Located on the second floor, serves as a regional and national clearinghouse for information, research, and resources pertaining to literacy.

The Visual Arts Center and Collins C. Diboll Gallery

Located on the fourth floor of the library and features exhibition, archival, and lecture space.