| Description of library facilities: | Academic Outreach Library, Africana, Afro-Americana, Funk Agriculture, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies, Advanced Information Technologies Laboratory, Applied Life Studies, Architecture & Art, Archives Research Center, Asian, Biology, Center for Children's Books, Chemistry, City Planning/Landscape Architecture, Classics, Commerce, Communications, Education & Social Sciences, Engineering, English, Fire Service Institute, Geological Survey Library, Geology, Government Documents, Health Sciences, History & Philosophy, Illinois Historical Survey, Illinois Newspaper Project, Illinois Researcher Information Service, Kolp-Proust Archive for Research, Labor & Industrial Relations, Latin American & Caribbean Library, Law, Library & Information Science, Lincoln Room, Main Library, Map & Geography, Mathematics, Modern Languages & Linguistics, Mortenson Center for International Library Programs, Music, Natural History Survey Library, Newspaper, Physics/Astronomy, Psychology, Rare Book Room & Special Collections, Reading Rooms, Resource Centers & Residence Halls, Reference, Slavic & East European, Sousa Archives and Center for American Music, Undergraduate, University Archives, University High School, Veterinary Medicine, Waste Management & Research Center Library, Water Survey Library, Women & Gender Resources Library |
| Museums in proximity: | Beckman Institute for Advanced Science & Technology (cultivates leading-edge, interdisciplinary research of the highest quality. Research at the Institute is focused around three scientific and technologically relevant research initiatives: Biological Intelligence; Human-Computer Intelligent Interaction; and Molecular and Electronic Nanostructures), National Center for Supercomputing Applications (develops, deploys, and supports cyberinfrastructure), Siebel Computer Science Center, William R. & Clarice V. Spurlock Museum (46,000 world history and cultural artifacts), Krannert Center for the Performing Arts (The Department of Theatre is virtually unique among American universities in the quality and scope of its instructional resources, its technologically advanced production facilities, and the professional expertise of its faculty, resident production staff, and visiting artists. Most classes, rehearsals, workshops, and productions are housed in the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, one of the finest and most active theatre complexes in the nation. Krannert Center attracts dozens of internationally renowned artists each year, and Department of Theatre students regularly work with them on productions and workshops.), Krannert Art Museum (8,000 works of Art), John Phillip Sousa Museum (74% of existing Sousa materials), Rare Book Room & Special Collections (The Rare Book & Manuscript Library has grown to over 300,000 books and over 7,130 linear feet of manuscripts. Particular strengths lie in early printing and the Elizabethan and Stuart periods in England, with works by Shakespeare, various important editions of the Bible, and renaissance school books standing out as distinctive and deep collections. The Library is renowned for its outstanding collections of incunabula and emblem books. Also noteworthy are the collections in the history of science and technology, Mark Twain and his age, the history of economics, and natural history. Also housed here are papers of such notable figures as Benjamin Disraeli, Anthony Trollope, William Allingham, Marcel Proust, John Richardson, Carl Sandburg, H.G. Wells, William Maxwell, Shana Alexander, and W.S. Merwin), Allerton Park & Conference Center (Robert Henry Allerton donated his private estate,"The Farms" to the University of Illinois in 1946. The property which is located just outside of Monticello, Illinois consists of 1,500 acres of formal gardens, nature areas, and his manor house. In keeping with Robert Allerton's original concept, the estate is used as a conservation area devoted to education, research, and recreation. Today, more than 100,000 people - including researchers, teachers, and students as well as the general public - visit the park or attend conferences at the Conference Center each year.), Japan House and Arboretum (offer a serene and peaceful atmosphere where students and all other visitors savor the serenity in the midst of their busy lives). |