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Map Library Location and Hours

Halle Library Room 114, 734-487-2855

The Map Library is open by appointment only. Contact Diane Browning, dbrowning@emich.edu, for more information or to schedule an appointment.

The Travel & Tourism collection and the non-reference atlases are accessible during all normal library hours

Travel and Tourism collection - road maps, travel brochures, and visitor guides to sites in the United States and around the world. Find these in the filing cabinets in the Information Commons South.
Atlases - atlases of many types, including world, geographic, political, demographic, economic and marketing, historical, military, nature, and celestial atlases.
- Reference Collection atlases are for use only in the map room and are available during map library hours.
- A wide collection of other atlases are kept in the Information Commons South, are available during all library hours, and may be checked out at the circulation desk.
Topographic maps - USGS topographic maps for Michigan and many other states
Ocean surveys and coastal charts
Government documents and publications - including CIA and defense mapping agencies
Posters, calendars, and aerial photography (see Special Indexes for links)
Free maps! Free tourist maps and brochures in the stand outside the door to the map room.

Flying Camera aerial photography
Large aerial images at various scales, from buildings to continents, from all over the world.
Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth
NASA photographs, thoroughly-indexed and searchable by city, state, or other geographic feature.

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