Affiliated Libraries

• Columbia Daily Tribune Archives - Fulltext archives of the Columbia Daily Tribune from January 1993 to present.
• Columbia Missourian Newspaper Library - The Missourian Newspaper Library collection consists mainly of clippings from the Columbia Missourian and the Columbia Daily Tribune. The Library maintains subject, biographical and photo files on local institutions and events. The dates covered in the files vary, but most files go back to at least 1989. Photo and biographical files may go back farther. Archives for the Missourian are athttp://merlin.jour.missouri.edu/ you will need to ask for the username and password from either the Journalism Library staff or Missourian Newspaper library. You can also go to the digital version of the Missourian at http://www.digmo.org
• Daniel Boone Regional Library - Columbia's public library with access to Callaway County public library and Southern Boone County public library.
• Ellis Library - Named after the thirteenth president of the University of Missouri, the Elmer Ellis Library, the main library in the MU system, occupies a central block on campus facing Lowry Mall. The State Historical Society and Western Historical Manuscripts are located on the ground floor of the library building with separate entrances. The MU Libraries comprise the 47th largest research collection in North America with holdings of 2.6 million books and 5 million microforms. Other materials in the Libraries include government documents, sound recordings, and maps. The Libraries are staffed by approximately 45 professional librarians, 118 support staff, and many part-time student assistants.
• MU Engineering Library & Technology Commons - The Engineering Library, a branch of the MU Libraries. The Library is located at the top of the staircase on the second floor in Engineering Building East (EBE). The Sixth Street entrance to Lafferre Hall provides the quickest means of reaching the library.
• The Freedom of Information Center - is a reference and research library in the University of Missouri School of Journalism on the Campus of the University of Missouri-Columbia. We're here to serve the general public and the media on questions regarding access to government documents and information. Established in 1958, the center now has a collection of more than 1 million articles and documents about access to information at the state, federal and local levels, in addition to a wide collection of online document accessible through its webpage.
• J Otto Lottes Health Science Library - The Library has a collection of 242,869 volumes and currently receives 1,194 periodicals, pertaining to medicine, nursing, hospital administration, and related fields. The Library also has over 1125 online periodicals, over 100 electronic books, and 146 electronic databases available to patrons from our Web site. The Library has eight professional librarians and thirteen support staff members.
• Law Library - the law library has a proud 127-year history. In 1872, it was a one-room establishment in the now defunct Academic Hall. Today, it houses over 315,000 volumes on four floors in the south wing of John K. Hulston Hall. Library services include reference and research assistance, computer assisted searches of legal and non-legal databases, and legal research instruction. All law library operations, including acquisitions, cataloging, circulation, interlibrary loan, and serials control, are performed through the University's integrated library system, called MERLIN.
• Math Library - The Math Sciences Library, a branch of the MU Libraries. The Mathematical Sciences Library is located in Room 206 on the second floor of the Mathematical Sciences Building. The building is located next to the Student Recreation Center and across the street from the General Classroom Building. Limited parking is available in the Turner Avenue Garage, to the northwest of the Mathematical Sciences Building.
• Other Library Resources on the web - American Library Association, LibDex - The Library Index,Libraries on the Web, Library Catalogs on the Web, Library of Congress, LOCIS - Library of Congress Information System - via Telnet, Missouri Authors Directory, Missouri Center for the Book, Missouri Library Association New York Public Library, Other Literature and Writing Resources.
• Special Collections - Collections of primary resources and valuable research materials have been grouped together in the Special Collections Division. Included are the rare book collection, the microform collection, and a variety of other collections including philosophical works, English tracts from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, comic art, journalists in fiction, and others.
  History of Division, Book Collections, Microform Collections, Collection Guides and Indexes.
• State Historical Society of Missouri - Founded in 1898 by the Missouri Press Association and a trustee of the state since 1901, the State Historical Society of Missouri is the preeminent research facility for the study of the Show Me State's heritage. Housed in Ellis Library on the University of Missouri-Columbia campus, the Society is well located geographically and institutionally to meet the needs of scholars, genealogists, family and local historians, historic preservationists, journalists and others. Art Collection, Directory of Local Historical, Museum, and Genealogical Agencies in Missouri with links to Regional, State, and National Resource Agencies, History Day, Newspaper Library, Reference Library, Missouri Genealogy Guide Sheets, Missouri Historical Review, Photograph Collection, Western Historical Manuscript Collection.
• University Archives - The UMC Archives is the depository of official records of the University of Missouri at Columbia as well as of the administrative records of the University of Missouri System. The UMC Archives also houses and preserves private papers, organizational records, and manuscripts that relate to the history of the University and the University System.
• University of Missouri-Columbia Government Documents - The Government Documents office maintains its own staff of government information specialists to assist users in locating material in the collection.
• Veterinary Medical Library - The Veterinary Medical Library was established in 1951 to serve not only the students, staff and faculty of the College of Veterinary Medicine but also members of other subject disciplines that interact with veterinary medicine. The library is considered a state and national research resource because of its unique subject collection.
• Western Historical Manuscripts - was established at the University of Missouri in 1943 with the help of a Rockefeller Foundation grant. The State Historical Society of Missouri had been acquiring manuscript materials since 1900. The two collections combined physically in 1963 and expanded to the Kansas City, Rolla, and St. Louis campuses of the University of Missouri in 1968. Researchers should contact those repositories directly regarding their holdings.
  Professional historians and researchers, students, genealogists, journalists, and anyone with an interest in historical research are invited to utilize WHMC-Columbia's more than 15,000 linear feet of paper records, over 6,300 rolls of microfilm, 19,000 photographs and other images, and approximately 12,000 audio and video recordings.