• 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.

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: 306 Wimberly Hall & 423 Wimberly Hall
   
• Contact: Sandra Krajewski (krajewsk.sand@uwlax.edu), 608-785-8732
   
• Collection description: contains a small circulating library of books, periodicals, posters, and videos, plus information and brochures. A listing of videos is available.

Map Library

• Location: 207 Cowley Hall
   
• Contact: Dean Wilder (wilder.dean@uwlax.edu), 608-785-8334
   
• Hours: variable, depending on student workers' schedules
   
• Collection description: over 40,000 topographic maps, including UW-L’s Federal Depository Library Program map collection. Also, an extensive collection of wall maps, a wide variety of atlases, weather maps, soil and vegetation maps, and economic maps of the regional area and the world. Database of holdings is kept on a non-networked PC within the Map Library. Starting 2004, new depository maps received are listed in the Murphy Library catalog. Materials do circulate.
   

Center for Death Education and Bioethics (CDEB)

• Location: 435 Wimberly Hall
   
• Contact: (cdeb@uwlax.edu), 608-785-6784
   
• Hours: open every Tuesday and Thursday from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. or by appointment if needed. To make an appointment, please call or email.
   
• Collection description: The CDEB has a large collection of academic journals, books, articles, and other materials concerned with death, dying, bereavement, terminal illness, hospice care, etc… in contemporary society. Users are encouraged to come in and use the center's resources for academic projects or to satisfy personal interests. CDEB sponsors Illness, Crisis, and Loss, a quarterly peer reviewed journal published by Sage Periodicals. CDEB also makes available, at cost, brochures on grief and loss.