Howard-Tilton Memorial Library

Established in 1968. Providing information to the Tulane University community. Howard Memorial Library was originally located at Lee Circle in a building based on a design by H.H, Richardson. The building is now part of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. F. W. Tilton Library was originally located next to Gibson Hall on St. Charles Avenue. The build... ing is now called Tilton Memorial Hall and houses the Amistad Research Center, the Economics department, and the Murphy Institute. In 1938, Tulane and the Howard Library announced a merger of Tulane's Tilton Library, Newcomb's library in Dixon Hall, and the Howard Library. The new library was named Howard-Tilton Memorial Library. In 1968, the Howard-Tilton Memorial Library moved to its current location. The former library building became Jones Hall and home to the Law School until 1995 when Weinmann Hall was finished and Special Collections moved out of Howard-Tilton and over to Jones Hall.Read More