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UW-L Campus Libraries

The primary library at UW-L is Murphy Library, which also administers the Area Research Center and the Alice Hagar Curriculum Resource Center.

The following are additional libraries on campus:

The Institute for Latino/a and Latin American Studies
  • Location: History Department, 403K Wimberly Hall
     
  • Contact: Víctor M. Macías-González (macias.vict@uwlax.edu), 608-785-8349
     
  • Hours: 8-8.30 and 12-12.30 MWF; and TR 10-12
     
  • Collection description: houses the Institute's pedagogical collections, journals, and a small library of materials on Latin American and Chicano literature. The Institute's video library, with over 40 titles, is available to ILLAS associates and their classes.


Marian D. Hammes Early Childhood Center

  • Location: 115 Morris Hall
     
  • Contact: Barb Chaney (chaney.barb@uwlax.edu), 608-785-8145
     
  • Hours: Mon: 2:00-4:45, Tue: 9:30-4:45, Wed: 9:00-1:30 & 12:30-3:30, Thur: 9:30-4:45, and Fri: Closed
     
  • Collection description: contains a library of books, journals, kits, activities, toys to use with young children, which are available for use not only by students but also Early Childhood Educators in the community.
 

Music Listening Lab

  • Location: Room 145 Center for the Arts Bldg
     
  • Contact: Jacob Leonard (leonard.jaco@uwlax.edu), 608-785-8415
     
  • Hours: Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m.-8 p.m. and Friday, 8:00 a.m. - 5:15 p.m. Summer hours vary.
     
  • Collection description: Listening Lab collection contains anything from Classical, Jazz, to Modern Rock. We a have Multi-media collection that includes: Albums, Compact Disc, Cassettes, VHS tapes, DVD’s, and Musical Scores.


The Rhea Pederson Reading Center

  • Location: 335 Morris Hall
     
  • Contact: Delores Heiden (heiden.delo@uwlax.edu), 608-785-8149
     
  • Hours: Mon: 1:00-3:30,Tue: 2:30-4:30, Wed: 9:00-10:30, Thur: 2:30-4:30, and Fri: Closed
     
  • Collection description: includes professional journals, current professional books, basal readers, literacy assessments, children’s literature and adolescent literature. A work-study student serves as the librarian for the reading center collection.


The Women's Resource Center & WRC Collections

  • Location: 4301 Centennial Hall.  Books and journals are cataloged through Murphy Library. Books can be checked out in 4300 Centennial Hall (fill out the card and leave it at the front desk).
  • Contact: Deb Hoskins (dhoskins@uwlax.edu), 608-785-8734 
  • Hours: 8:00 a.m. to noon, Monday-Friday
  • Collection description: contains a small circulating library of books and periodicals, plus information and brochures for services, jobs, careers, and graduate schools.