Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library

This is the most beautiful library I’ve ever seen in my life. Definitely getting my money’s worth of just $ 60,484 a year.

Just lovely. Everything you’d want in a campus library, including plenty of quiet places to study & long hours (but not ²⁴⁄₇). The Reading Room on the 2^nd floor is spectacular. The study carrels are a practical option if you need to avoid distractions.

Scary stacks? Check. More resources than the average person knows about or uses? Check.
I’ve been working here for about 3 years and it’s a great building.
There are free workshops for several resume boosting programs and the staff (especially meeeee) is always friendly and helpful.
The steps facing the Diag are iconic, and the South entrance is pretty much a wind vortex to be avoided at all costs in cold weather.

This library is gorgeous — inside and out! Though it has modern updates and amenities, they’ve taken pains to keep the beautiful staircase and façade in tact.
This library is much quieter than the UGLI, and not quite as busy. I would highly recommend coming here to study!

Getting lost in the stacks is one of my many fond memories of studying at the «Grad.» Actually, it wasn’t so fond at the time, but being a book worm & social sciences nerd, I loved getting lost in aisles and aisles of books.
The study room on the 2^nd floor is one of the best places to study on campus if you need absolute silence. I had some of my best study sessions here. There are long study tables that are brightly lit with table lights. During the daytime, light streams in through the windows above, highlighting the paintings/​murals on the walls… sigh. I miss this place.
The study carrels on the 3−6^th floor are nice if you really need to cut yourself off from others, but sometimes I find it to be just a little creepy.
The University of Michigan has one of the best library collections in the nation. They have a small museum in the Grad, where I’ve been able to see beautiful and rare collections.
However, in order to get the books you need from the 10+ floors of stacks, you really need to know your library well enough. The staff is usually pretty helpful with this.
The only downside: the Hatch closes at 2am, which usually relegated me to the UGLi (too noisy) or to the Fishbowl (too dark, and computers = facebook)

One of the most beautiful libraries I have ever visited. It is very, very easy to get lost in the stacks. so watch out. On Friday, when they shut the lights off early… make sure you heed the warning to get out of the library. I learned the hard way… I ended up stuck in the stacks and used the light of my cell phone to find my way out.
So many books that you can probably find at least one thing that covers the topic you are researching.

I’m mostly reviewing this library for its study lounge. it’s got great natural light, plenty of workspace, is quiet and beautiful. Arched ceilings and natural wood make you happy to be inside. Did you know the building was designed by famous architect, Albert Kahn???
A note of warning for the rest of the library: it is incredibly easy to get lost in the stacks. I went to library school and have found myself, on numerous occasions, so lost I had to use a service exit!

I don’t know where to begin with this library. I’ve had a love affair with it since I was a student, and then kept that flame alive when I worked as a library assistant Xeroxing those journals for business school professors.
I am always amazed at their collection.
I only have two complaints:
The stacks are scary as hell. It’s like booneyland, and the bookcases go through the floor so you get the feeling that you’re going to fall down the cracks or that a horror movie is being filmed around the corner.
One of the librarians is really, really mean and condescending. She never uses a nice tone with you when you are checking out your books. I dread getting her and even try to time myself in line so I do not have to bee seen by her.

There are a few places in the world where I feel safe from harm and forgetful of all the mean things (and sometimes there are a lot of mean things, and sometimes they follow you for a whole lifetime). My own Breakfast at Tiffany’s so to speak. The 4^th floor of the grad is one such place. There is something about being in the midst of Chinese, German, French, and Japanese books just makes me feel all gut (say it like you’re German).

The graduate library at U of M is an impressive place. Besides millions of books, it contains the largest collection of papyrus documents in the western hemisphere. There is a map room with authentic maps of Europe and the New World dating back centuries, and even a Roman road map.
The building has been expanded so many times, and so haphazardly that the floors don’t even match up across the various additions to the building. I always think of the library in Umberto Eco’s «Name of the Rose,» in which the stacks were a maze that could swallow you forever. Maybe the author has spent some time in The Grad.

A nice place to go when you need to get away from distractions. Not nearly as crowded or obnoxious as the Shapiro Library. Highlight: The study carrels on the 3 – 6 floors of the South Stacks. Enjoy a quiet, secluded room, complete with a desk, electrical outlet and window! You can even get wireless. Also, there’s a furnace in each room which has inevitably been covered with the intelligent discourse one comes to expect from the University of Michigan. Here are some examples from the one I’m currently in:
«Steve luvs cock»
«MEN SUCK DICK»
«BEER»
All in all, probably my favorite place to study on campus.

Incredible resources and really helpful librarians. Also, right in the heart of campus.

Just thought I’d mention that besides the rest rooms reviewed by the first Unilocaler recently the Graduate Library also has books (like, millions of books, literally), a first-​class reading room with historic murals, interesting rotating exhibits of frequently fascinating material in the lobby and in the rare book area upstairs, and very helpful reference librarians.

oh how i thank thee for shielding me from the blustery weather outside.
bathrooms are nice. at first i was a little skeptical… i needed to pee. i have two choices: 1) a frat house 2) UofM grad library w/​testy grad students
both sounded equally unappealing. I’m glad i chose the latter.