Libraries The university’s nine libraries, which hold over 7 million volumes and 16,000 periodicals, include the main Howard-Tilton Memorial Library with branch collections in architecture and natural history, and separately administered libraries of law, medicine, business, mathematics, and primate research. Special collections include the William Ranson Hogan Jazz Archive, the Maxwell Music Library, the Southeastern Architectural Archive, the Latin American Library, the Louisiana Collection of Historical Materials, The Amistad Research Center, and the university archives.
The Tulane Health Sciences Center library is named for the distinguished surgeon and alumnus of the school of medicine, Rudolph Matas, and was founded in 1844.
The Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, the general library of the university, includes holdings of 1,250,000 volumes and contains a number of special areas including government documents, newspapers and microfilm, the Latin American Library, the Louisiana Collection, the Maxwell Music Library, Science, and Engineering Division.
Other nearby libraries include libraries of the Louisiana State University health sciences center, the University of New Orleans, the New Orleans public library system, the Law Library of Louisiana, and the Library of Agricultural Research, U.S. Department of Agriculture. | 
Photo by Donn Young
Health Sciences Center Library
1430 Tulane Ave.
2nd floor, room 2520
Holdings include more than 1,000 medical and scientific journals |
