The Woodson Research Center holds the library s rare books, manuscripts, and university archives. The library also houses the Alice Pratt Brown Fine Arts Library. The Business Information Center is in Herring Hall. The library has an open-shelf policy that encourages creative browsing. Students may use a host of special facilities, from individual study carrels to group-study rooms and from audiovisual equipment and electronic workstations to microform reading carrels.
Photocopiers are available in the library.
Fondren Library operates on the philosophy that a library is more than a collection of books. These endowed book funds supplement university-budgeted funds for book acquisitions, helping to meet the instructional and research needs of faculty and students. Each of these book funds was established by gifts or bequests from alumni and friends, corporations, or foundations. Library Endowment Owlnet Computing Resources Owlnet consists of the computing resources available for educational use by members of the Rice community. The Division of Information Technology manages these resources, including the campus labs, software applications, campus network, and dial-up services.