University Libraries

University Libraries

University Libraries are the William H. Mortensen and Mildred P. Allen Memorial Libraries. Mortensen and Allen, located in the Harry Jack Gray Center, are convenient both to residential halls and to academic facilities.

Collections in Mortensen Library, which is located in the center of the Harry Jack Gray Center, include the arts, sciences, humanities, the University archives, and a special collection in Judaica. The Allen Library is located on the upper level of the east wing of the Gray Center, adjacent to The Hartt School, and houses music, dance, and related performing arts resources.  .

The Mortensen Library collection has holdings of more than 500,000 books, journals, microforms, videos, DVDs, and art plates. Approximately 37,500 scholarly journal subscriptions in electronic and paper form are maintained and supplemented by numerous databases. More than 100 PCs, iMacs, and laptops, as well as nine collaborative computer pods (cPods), are available in Mortensen Library. Academically appropriate Internet subject resources may be accessed through the library network.

Extensive University Libraries Web pages may be accessed at http://library.hartford.edu. The website includes a search box that helps users identify and locate all scholarly resources managed by University Libraries, including books, online or paper journal subscriptions, musical scores, audio recordings, video recordings, and research databases. Additionally, University community members with University of Hartford e-mail accounts (available from Information Technology Services) may access restricted databases and electronic journals from outside the campus network.

The Mortensen Library serves the general University community, offering reference and instructional programs. Formal instruction is conducted in the Woods Family Classroom and the KF Room, located on the main level. Library hours of operation may be found at http://library.hartford.edu. Special hours are observed during the summer and holidays. There are videotape and DVD workstations in Mortensen Library for viewing the growing collection of more than 3,700 videotapes and DVDs. Group study areas are available. The Mortensen Library also offers the Dorothy Goodwin Café, a welcoming space for the entire community.

The Mildred P. Allen Memorial Library, located adjacent to The Hartt School on the upper level of the east wing of the Harry Jack Gray Center (above Wilde Auditorium), provides reference, circulating, and on-line materials in the fields of music, dance, music theatre, and related arts. The Allen Library’s collections, services, and facilities are open to the entire University community. It’s total holdings of more than 86,000 items include approximately 22,000 books and bound journals on music, dance 41,700 musical scores, 22,700 sound recordings (including recordings of Hartt operas, concerts and recitals), and 1,200 DVDs and videocassettes.  Thousands of additional audio tracks are streamed online.  Subscriiptions to more than 400 online and print journals allow students and faculty to remain abreast of current research. 

The Allen Library website presents extensive resources in, and finding aids for, music, dance, theatre, and related performing arts (library.hartford.edu/allenlibrary).

The Allen Library’s facilities include 17 dual-boot, public iMacs with Windows 7 and Mac OSX; all provide access to Microsoft Office online resources, and some music softwar.  Four  Macbooks and four PC laptops are available for brief checkout; the Macbooks have music notation software, Finale and Sibelius. Digital  camcorders, audio Zoom recorders, USB microphones, tripods, and iPads are available for checkout for one to three days (depending on thew item).  CD players, turntables, cassette players, and DVD/VHS players, installed at eight carrels and in three listening rooms, are available for listening to and viewing items. Two seminar rooms (one large, one small) with AV and computer projection are available for teaching, group study, and meetings.  Reading and study areas have wireless Internet access.  Self-service photocopiers, printers, a public scanner are located at the front of the library.

Allen Library hours of operation may be found at http://library.hartford.edu.  Special hours are observed during the summer and holidays.

Interlibrary resource-sharing services are supplemented by the libraries of the 10 colleges and universities in the Hartford Consortium for Higher Education; all consortium libraries are open to University of Hartford students and faculty for research and reference. Faculty, staff, and students at Connecticut institutions of higher education may also borrow resources from Council of Connecticut Academic Library Directors participating institutions. Ask at the Mortensen Library Circulation Desk for information. Students who obtain a borrowing card from a Connecticut public library may borrow from all public libraries in the state.