Main Library Study Spaces  [MAP]

Group Study Rooms

Available on a first come, first served basis to UI students:

 

Second Floor

• Central corridor
• Room 2054, but only after 5 pm and on weekends

 

Third Floor

• Government Publications 3132

 

Fourth Floor

• Room 4041, but only after 5 pm and on weekends

 

Fifth Floor

• Rooms 5037 and 5062

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Quiet Study Areas

The library should be a place conducive to study, but space limitations and lack of study rooms often make it difficult to find a quiet spot to study.  Therefore, several areas have been designated as quiet study areas (areas for individual study, where there should be no talking and no audible electronic devices, including cell phones).

 

Second Floor

• Study Lounge 2001

Third Floor

• Seating on the East side of the building in the area around the current and bound journals

Fourth Floor

• Seating in both the East and West book stacks areas

 

Fifth Floor

• Seating in both the East and West book stacks areas

 

Note: Library users in Quiet Study Areas whose study is disrupted are asked to first approach those who are noisy and ask them to be quiet. If necessary, please contact library staff for assistance. Library users who fail to comply with the quiet study constraints will be asked to leave the quiet study area.

 

Cell phones and conversations should be taken to the central corridors of all floors, or to the building stairwells.

 

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Graduate Study Carrels

All of the carrels and all of the area contiguous to the carrels on the fourth floor have been designated as a Quiet Study Area. Study carrels in this area are for UI graduate students. Applications are available in the Bookstacks Supervisor's office, fourth floor, at 8:00 a.m., on the first day of classes of each semester, including summer semester.   

 

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Undesignated Study Areas
Undesignated study areas on floors 1-3 are available as general study space

“The University of Iowa Libraries encourages scholarly research by maintaining an environment conducive to study in all units of the libraries system. Library users are expected to act responsibly, appropriately, and courteously to preserve the libraries’ facilities, environment, and collections.”
(From Conduct In the University of Iowa Libraries: Basic Policy Governing Public Use)