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When the UT Austin libraries were built, they were designed to be beautiful and functional. The architecture, interior design, and landscape design are all inspired by the Texas Hill Country.

Architecture and Planning Library

The Architecture and Planning Library is located on the first floor of the Architecture Building, south wing. The library’s hours are Monday through Friday from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm, except for University holidays and semester breaks (see calendar).

The Architecture and Planning Library offers resources for both faculty members and students, including:

Books on architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning and related topics in an extensive collection of books that date back over 100 years;
Journals such as ACADIA (the official journal of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture) as well as international journals such as Architectural Design Online;
A series titled Bibliographies in Landscape Architecture & Urban Design which includes bibliographic guides for different areas within these disciplines;

Benson Latin American Collection

The Benson Latin American Collection is a world-renowned collection of books, journals and maps that support research in the humanities and social sciences. The collection includes over 40,000 volumes on Latin America, used by students, faculty and researchers at UT Austin and visiting scholars worldwide. It also contains an impressive array of government publications from throughout Latin America; rare books such as Cervantes’ Don Quixote (1605) in its original Spanish; thousands of photographs documenting Latin American history; archival materials related to essential figures like Jose Marti; material about various aspects of life in Latin America including music, art and archaeology/anthropology–and more!

The library offers several services, including interlibrary loan requests through WorldCat for articles or books not owned by UT Austin Libraries but available elsewhere (including other Texas public university libraries); reference assistance from librarians knowledgeable about specific topics related to your research project; photocopying services so you don’t have to make multiple trips just for one item at another library…or even worse: buy expensive copies from Amazon when there’s no way around it!

Classics Library

The Classics Library is located in Tudor Hall, on the first floor of the Main Building (Cockrell). The hours are 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10:00 ama.m. to 4:00 pmp.m. on Saturday. A complete listing of services and offerings can be found here.

Fine Arts Library

The Fine Arts Library is located on the first floor of the Harry Ransom Center in downtown Austin. It contains over 150,000 books and journals, 200,000 slides, prints and photographs (including over 100,000 art history and architecture periodicals). The library’s holdings focus on Western art from ancient times up to about 1940; there are also significant holdings relating to Asian art and medieval European sculpture.

Life Science Library

The Life Science Library is in the Natural Science Center on the third floor. It has 4,000 square feet and houses more than 70,000 volumes. The Life Science Library also has an extensive collection of online journals that can be accessed from any computer with internet access or through our mobile app, UT EZproxy (iOS or Android).

The library’s holdings include over 19,000 items within its physical space and access to more than 25,000 additional items through interlibrary loan services.

Kuehne Physics Mathematics Astronomy

The Kuehne Physics Mathematics Astronomy Library is a part of the UT Austin Libraries system and is named after the Kuehne Foundation, which donated $3 million to the university in 1999. The library is located on the second floor of the UT Austin Campus.

Perry-Castaneda Library

The Perry-Castaneda Library is the most extensive library at UT Austin and was named for its two founders, Malcolm E. Perry and Robert A. Castaneda. The library houses the most comprehensive collection of maps in Texas and one of North America’s most extensive collections of Mexican-American studies materials. It also features an extensive collection of Texas history, including documents from Stephen F. Austin’s colony, over 1 million photos, and rare books dating back to 1530 that President Lyndon B. Johnson gave when he was governor (1961-1969).

Walter Geology Library

The Walter Geology Library is in Sid Richardson Hall, part of the UT Austin campus. The library’s hours are Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., but on Saturdays, it is open from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

The library’s services include reference assistance, research consultations, and online databases for journal articles, ebooks and other resources available through the university’s website at http://librarylinktxaustin/community/study-space/.

In addition to its collections of books and periodicals relating specifically to geology topics such as palaeontology or mineralogy, this facility also offers specialized services such as microform readers (which allow patrons access to documents containing images printed onto film).