page_title: University of Louisville
section_title: Libraries
hierarchical_section_title: University of Louisville / Libraries
caption_attribution_description: English: Picture of Ekstrom Library addition. Taken by Jeffrey B. Morris and uploaded on June 7, 2006, the year of the dog. All rights released.
context_page_description: The University of Louisville is a public research university in Louisville, Kentucky. It is part of the Kentucky state university system. When founded in 1798, it was the first city-owned public university in the United States and one of the first universities chartered west of the Allegheny Mountains. The university is mandated by the Kentucky General Assembly to be a "Preeminent Metropolitan Research University". The university enrolls students from 118 of 120 Kentucky counties, all 50 U.S. states, and 116 countries around the world.
  Louisville is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". The University of Louisville School of Medicine is touted for the first fully self-contained artificial heart transplant surgery as well as the first successful hand transplantation in the United States. The University Hospital is also credited with the first civilian ambulance, the nation's first accident services, now known as an emergency department, and one of the first blood banks in the US.
  Louisville is also known for its Louisville Cardinals athletics programs.
context_section_description: The University of Louisville library system is a member of the Association of Research Libraries. Louisville’s main library branch is the William F. Ekstrom Library, which opened in 1981. The four-story building finished an expansion in March 2006, which increased its total size to 290,000 square feet (27,000 m²) and shelving capacity to over 1.3 million books. It is one of only five universities in the U.S. to have a robotic retrieval system, which robotically places books in humidity-free bins. The University of Louisville libraries were the seventh academic institution in North America to have such a facility.
  There are five other libraries at the university, with a combined total of more than 400,000 volumes of work:
  Archives and Special Collections
  The Margaret M. Bridwell Art Library
  Dwight Anderson Memorial Music Library
  Kornhauser Health Sciences Library
  Brandeis Law School Library
  In 2009, the Kersey Library at the J. B. Speed School of Engineering was converted to an academic building named the Duthie Center for Engineering. The library's collection was fully integrated into Ekstrom Library on January 15, 2007.
caption: The Belknap Campus' Ekstrom Library
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