Outside of Main: Collections of Other Northwestern Libraries
| Location: | Evanston Campus |
| Architect: | Walter Netsch of S.O.M. |
| Date Built: | 1977 |
| Collection Size: | 270,000 volumes |
| Library Head: | Robert Michaelson |
The Seeley G. Mudd Library for Science and Engineering, which holds Northwestern's collections in Engineering, Chemistry, Physics, Life Sciences (other than clinical medicine), Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, and Astronomy, was opened in July 1977. Previously there had been an increasingly-overcrowded library in the Technological Institute building which held NU's collections in engineering, physics, and chemistry; a separate life sciences library was in Swift Hall and an astronomy library was in the Dearborn Observatory. The library is named for Seeley G. Mudd, whose will established the Seeley G. Mudd Foundation which donated $1.4 million towards the library's construction costs.
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Snapshots taken of the Seeley G. Mudd Library shortly after its completion, circa 1977.
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Annalen der Physik Vierte Folge. Band 17. 1905. This volume of the Annalen der Physik is one of the most famous volumes in the history of science, since it includes no less than three epochal contributions by the young Albert Einstein |
Mircea Steriade. The intact and sliced brain. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001. |
Susan Aldridge. Magic molecules: how drugs work. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1998. |
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