Harold Washington Library Center
Departments and Divisions
Looking for a specific collection, a particular room or a popular title? Use this guide to find what you’re looking for.
Lower Level
First Floor
- Information Desk
- Popular Library
- YOUmedia
Second Floor
Third Floor
- General Information Services
- Newspapers and General Periodicals
- Circulation Desk
- Book check-out and check-in
- Library card and voter registration applications
- Computer Commons
- Copy Center
- Interlibrary Loan
Fourth Floor
Fifth Floor
- Government Publications
- Municipal Reference Collection
- Social Science and History Periodicals
- Talking Book Center (Books for the Blind, Visually Impaired or Physically Disabled)
Sixth Floor
Seventh Floor
- Chicago Authors Room
- Literature and Language
Eighth Floor
- Visual and Performing Arts
- Listening/Viewing Center
- Music Practice Rooms
Ninth Floor
- Corporate and Private Events
- South Hall
- Special Collections and Preservation
- Harold Washington Archives and Collections
- Special Collections Exhibit Halls
- Winter Garden