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Howard-Tilton Memorial Library Collections
General Collections
The general collections of Howard-Tilton Memorial Library provide a core of resources for research across the humanities, social sciences, and science and engineering. This includes more than 2.5 million print books and journals housed in the library and at a large off-site storage facility. The general collections also include a wealth of resources in digital format such as databases, ebooks, and online journals. Post-Katrina, new collections in music, media, and microforms are being built.
Special Collections
The Latin American Library: The Latin American Library is among the world's foremost library collections for Latin American Studies. Its scope covers most subject disciplines for all of Latin America and the Caribbean from the early contact period to the present, with strong coverage of ancient Mesoamerica. The library houses a circulating collection, rare books, manuscripts, an image archive, printed ephemera, maps, and rubbings of Mayan stellae. Location: Fourth floor of Howard-Tilton.
Architecture Library: The Architecture Library houses reference materials, books, and journals related broadly to architecture, preservation and city planning. Older architecture materials are housed in Howard-Tilton. Location: second floor of Richardson Memorial Hall.
William Ranson Hogan Jazz Archive: This renowned resource for New Orleans jazz research includes oral histories, recordings, photographs, films, sheet music, orchestrations, manuscripts, and news clippings. The collection also includes books and periodicals, discographies, and reference materials. Location: third floor of Jones Hall.
Southeastern Architectural Archive: One of the largest collections of architectural records in the southern United States, the SEAA focuses on the built environment of New Orleans and Louisiana. Location: third floor of Jones Hall.
Louisiana Collection and Manuscripts: The Louisiana Collection preserves publications including books, pamphlets, and periodicals pertaining to Louisiana from colonial times to the present. The Manuscripts Collection is one of Louisiana's principal archives of letters, diaries, scrapbooks, photographs, and other primary source documents. Inquire in the Special Collections Reading Area on the second floor of Jones Hall.
Rare Books: This collection includes some 50,000 titles dating from a leaf of the Gutenberg Bible (ca. 1456) to contemporary rare works that are first editions. Inquire in the Special Collections Reading Area on the second floor of Jones Hall.
University Archives: Housed here are the official records of Tulane University including administrative files, theses, dissertations, course catalogs, and student publications. Inquire in the Special Collections Reading Area on the 2nd floor of Jones Hall.
The Recovery Center
The Recovery Center is a large-scale program planned to process more than 300,000 materials for eventual reincorporation into the library's collections. Most were salvaged from the library's flooded basements and frozen for restoration in a dramatic effort immediately after Hurricane Katrina. Work within the center is expected to begin in February 2008.
