3.K University of Michigan Libraries and Museums (Ann Arbor Campus)

The University is privileged to house library, museum, and archival collections of enormous importance and breadth. Libraries, museums, and collections serve the academic community as a bridge to ideas, past and present; research resources generated over centuries; information in a variety of formats and delivery systems; and innovative applications of modern digital technology.

Within the purview of the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, the University of Michigan Ann Arbor Campus library system is administered centrally through the Office of the Director of the University Library and is composed of the following units:

• Area Programs Collections
• Art, Architecture and Engineering Library (formerly the Media Union Library)
• Asia Library
• Biological Station Library
• Dentistry Library
• Film and Video Library
• Fine Arts Library
• Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library
• Information and Library Studies Library
• Map Library
• Museums Library
• Music Library
• Papyrology Collection
• Public Health Information Services and Access (PHISA)
• Shapiro Science Library
• Shapiro Undergraduate Library
• Social Work Library
• Special Collections Library
• Taubman Medical Library

The University Library has direct oversight over these libraries. Oversight for the general program of the Media Union rests with an Executive Committee that consists of the deans of the following academic units: College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LS&A); College of Engineering; School of Art and Design; A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning; School of Music, Theatre & Dance; and the University Library.

In addition, four major library units are maintained and administered separately from the University Library. They are:

• The Kresge Business Administration Library, reporting to the Dean of the School of Business Administration
• The Law Library, reporting to the Dean of the Law School
• The Bentley Historical Library, which houses the Michigan Historical Collections and the University Archives, reporting to the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs
• The William L. Clements Library of Americana, reporting to the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs

Bylaw 12.05 establishes a Libraries Advisory Committee to serve as a medium for discussion and advice concerning matters of common interest to the University Library and to the Clements, Bentley, Law, and Business libraries.

The following independent libraries are also found on the Ann Arbor Campus:

• Center for Afro American and African Studies Library
• Center for the Education of Women Library
• English Language Institute Library
• Foster Library (LS&A, Economics)
• Mental Health Research Institute Library
• University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute Library
• Residence Halls Libraries
• Visual Resources Collection (LS&A, History of Art)

The librarians, curators, and archivists in these units usually report to the director of their particular University facility or the chair of their college department.

Independent libraries are located on the University's Dearborn and Flint campuses. The director of the Mardigian Library on the Dearborn Campus reports to the Dearborn Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs. The director of the Frances Willson Thompson Library on the Flint Campus reports to the Flint Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs.

In addition, the Gerald R. Ford Library, a presidential library operated by the National Archives and Records Administration (an agency of the United States Government), is physically housed on the University's North Campus.

For more information on libraries, see Section 21.K, "Libraries."

The following six museums on the Ann Arbor Campus are administratively part of LS&A:

• Exhibit Museum of Natural History
• Herbarium
• Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
• Museum of Anthropology
• Museum of Paleontology
• Museum of Zoology

The directors of these museums are faculty members and are appointed by the Dean of LS&A. The museum curators are also faculty members and usually hold joint appointments as both curators and faculty within an academic department. The Herbarium and the Museums of Anthropology, Paleontology, and Zoology are research museums; the Kelsey is both a research and an exhibit museum, and the Exhibit Museum of Natural History serves the public as an exhibit museum.

The Museum of Art, also on the Ann Arbor Campus, is primarily an exhibit museum and reports to the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs.

There are many other museums and similar services on the Ann Arbor Campus associated with the various units. See Section 21.N, "Museums and Galleries"; Section 21.O, "Natural Areas"; Section 21.O.1 "Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum"; Section 21.O.2 "Forests/Reserves"; and Section 21.P, "Observatories and Planetariums."

Faculty Handbook: Administrative Structure: