Contact the Library Service desk for the answers to your questions!

Reference Phone: 404-727-6875
Circulation Phone: 404-727-6873
E-mail: ask@emory.libanswers.com
In Person: Woodruff Library, Main floor

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Getting personalized research assistance is easy! Librarians are available to help you in-person or via telephone, e-mail, and IM.

Face-to-face help is available at the Woodruff Service Desk on level 2. For our service hours, please see our current service desk hours.

Appointments with a subject specialist can be made by current Emory students, faculty and staff. To set up a consultation appointment with a subject librarian, see our Subject Librarian Directory. Reach out to the appropriate librarian by using the link in their bio to set up an appointment, or reach out to them by e-mail. If you do not see a liaison for your subject, please contact us using the e-mail form.

Call us by phone at 404-727-6873.

Or you can send us an instant message.

You may request that the library buy materials by filling out the purchase request form or by contacting a librarian directly.

Most of the Emory libraries use the Library of Congress classification system of letters and numbers to group materials by subject. These call numbers are listed in Library Search and marked on each book. Use our call number guide to find out which floor of the library has the book you need.

Emory has 8 libraries – 4 of them are in the main building:

• Robert W. Woodruff Library
• Goizueta Business Library
• Music & Media Library
• Rose Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library

The others are the Health Sciences Center Library, Hugh F. Macmillan Law Library, Pitts Theology Library, and the Oxford College library.

Emory University also has a joint storage facility with Georgia Tech–the Library Service Center (LSC)

You may occasionally find the source you need is at another location. This appears under the "Physical Resources" tab in the "Location" field. This title, for example, is at Pitts Theology Library:

You can find and visit these other libraries by taking a look at the Emory Campus Map. If an item you want is at another library, you can always request the item in Library Search.

Woodruff Library sponsors an award for undergraduate research. A panel of faculty and librarians will award up to four prizes of $1,000 each to those undergraduate students who:

1. make extensive use of Woodruff Library’s collections and research resources in their original scholarship;
2. show evidence of critical analysis in their research skills (i.e., locating, selecting, evaluating, and synthesizing information).

We encourage submissions from undergraduate students who have submitted extraordinary research papers for a credit course from the current academic year.

For more information and to apply, please visit http://web.library.emory.edu/services/woodruff-library-undergraduate-research-award.