The Library provides several ways to locate items of interest:

• Library Catalog – everything the Library owns (or licenses), print or electronic
• eJournals Finder – a subset of the catalog, limited to just online journals
• Database Finder – a handy ‘recommender’ system listing 25 or so major resources per subject area
• Summon – the Library’s innovative new discovery system
• Get It! -- the Library’s full-service link to articles

Kresge Collections Overview

Kresge Library holds print collections of books, bound print journals, geologic and hydrologic maps, dissertations and theses, and some CD-ROMs, on subjects in the physical sciences, -- astronomy and astrophysics, chemistry and materials science, geology and related earth and atmospheric sciences, physical geography, hydrology, physics, and related areas.

Online collections managed by Kresge include ejournals, online books and book collections, databases, and major reference works.

Mathematics and Computer Science collections are housed in the Cook Mathematics Collection, on the 3rd floor of Baker Berry Library.

The Storage Library holds some low-use material, such as older or superseded editions, journals for which the library has online access, or old or lesser-used journal volumes.

• Request books, or a bound volume of a journal, from the Storage Library using the Request Item button in the Library Catalog.
• Request articles from the Storage Library using DartDoc.

Libraries in related areas are

• Dana Biomedical Library (biomedical and life sciences, biology, ecology, and environmental sciences)
• Feldberg Business & Engineering Library (engineering, technology, nanomaterials)

Kresge Locations

View this floorplan of Kresge Library.

Journals in Kresge Library are organized alphabetically, by title. Current issues are in the Current Journals Reading Area; bound journal volumes are in the stacks. Books and book series are organized by call number.

Reference books and undergraduate and masters theses are shelved in separate locations in the main area of Kresge (see floorplan).

Course Reserve readings are held behind the Kresge circulation desk. Search course reserves