UO Libraries and Collections

The UO Libraries comprise the Knight Library and several branch libraries, and offer a wide range of collections and resources to support campus instruction, research, and service, as well as to respond to the needs of scholars by providing access to recorded information and information services.

Libraries

  Knight Library

 The Knight Library is the largest library on campus, housing the Library's collections of materials in the humanities, social sciences, music, and business, as well as the library's special collections, government documents, microforms, and maps.

  Design Library

 The Design Library, located in Lawrence Hall, holds approximately 86,000 volumes with a focus on architectural and visual arts subjects.   

  UO Portland Library and Learning Commons

 Located in the White Stag Block in Portland, Oregon, the UO Portland Library and Learning Commons provides library and educational technology services to support the university's Portland-based programs in urban architecture, digital art, product design, strategic communications, applied information management, and law.

  John E. Jaqua Law Library

 The John E Jaqua Law Library, housed in the William W. Knight Law Center, contains primary materials for research in U.S. federal and state law, including records and briefs of the U.S. Supreme Court, current statutes for all 50 states, and extensive holdings of law journals. The John E. jaqua Law Library is also a U.S. document depository.

  Mathematics Library

 The Mathematics Library, found in Fenton Hall, contains over 25,000 books and journals in mathematics.

  Loyd & Dorothy Rippey Library, Oregon Institute of Marine Biology (OIMB)

 The Loyd & Dorothy Rippey Library contains books and journals in marine biology and marine ecology. The Rippey Library is located at the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology (OIMB) in Charleston, Oregon.

  Price Science Commons and Research Library

 The Price Science Commons and Research Library, located in the courtyard between Klamath, Cascade, Willamette, and Onyx Bridge, contains 90,000 books in the sciences, including astronomy, biochemistry, biology, botany, chemistry, computer science, neuroscience, geology, paleontology, physics, physiology, zoology, and some areas of materials science engineering and technology.