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 2.7 million print volumes housed in the main library and at a large off-site storage facility. It also includes a wealth of resources in digital format such as databases, ebooks, and online journals--as well as growing collections of Music & Media.

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. It houses a circulating collection, rare books, manuscripts, an image archive, printed ephemera, maps, and rubbings of Mayan stelae.
Location: 4th Floor of Howard-Tilton.


Special Collections

 

Architecture Library: The Architecture Library houses reference materials, books, and journals related broadly to architecture, preservation and city planning.

Location: 2nd Floor of Richardson Memorial Hall.

William Ranson Hogan Jazz Archive: This renowned resource for New Orleans jazz research includes oral histories, recordings, books, periodicals, photographs, films, sheet music, orchestrations, manuscripts, and news clippings.
Location: 3rd Floor of Jones Hall.

Southeastern Architectural Archive: One of the largest collections of architectural records in the southern United States, the Southeastern Architectural Archive (SEAA) focuses on the built environment of New Orleans and Louisiana.

Location: 3rd Floor of Jones Hall.

Louisiana Collection & Manuscripts: The Louisiana Collection preserves 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, photographs, and other primary source documents.
Location: Reading Area on the 2nd 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.
Location: Reading Area on the 2nd 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.
Location: Reading Area on the 2nd Floor of Jones Hall.

 

The Recovery Center

The Recovery Center is a large-scale program that is processing hundreds of thousands of materials for eventual re incorporation 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 began in February 2008.