Locations & Hours

The Art Library supports teaching, research, and learning in the broad areas of art history, studio art, and design.

The UW Built Environments (BE) Library serves the research and teaching of the five departments comprising the College of Built Environments (CBE)–Architecture, Construction Management, Landscape Architecture, Real Estate and Urban Design and Planning.

The Drama Library serves the UW School of Drama, the University of Washington at-large, and the theatre community of the Puget Sound region.

The Engineering Library supports the research and teaching of the College of Engineering.

The Engineering Library is designated by the USPTO as a Patent and Trademark Resource Center (PTRC), part of a nationwide network of libraries.
The Library is located on Stevens Way across the street from the HUB.

The Foster Business library offers a robust business research hub, with 60,000+ books, hundreds of journal and newspaper subscriptions, and access to specialized reports and databases.

Government Publications, Maps, Microforms & Newspapers (GMMN) offers three major format collections that serve UW faculty, students, staff, and researchers from the local community and around the world.

The Mathematics Research Library provides research help and access to materials in Applied Mathematics, Mathematics, and Statistics.

Providing research help and access to all things music.

The Open Scholarship Commons (OSC) is an interdisciplinary set of spaces and services in Suzzallo Library intended to advance open, public, and emerging forms of scholarship.

The Research Commons is a place to collaborate and connect with fellow students and faculty on research projects.

University of Washington Libraries’ Special Collections collects, preserves and makes accessible rare books, manuscripts, papers, records, photographs, moving images and architectural drawings.

Situated at the heart of the Seattle campus, Suzzallo and Allen Libraries are the largest of the UW Libraries.

The Tateuchi East Asia Library, located on the third floor of Gowen Hall in the University’s iconic Liberal Arts Quadrangle (i.e. The Quad), is one of the leading East Asian libraries in North America.