The Chapel Hill campus has numerous libraries and knowing where to start can be confusing. A helpful overview of the Library system and a map with links to many individual libraries are available from the Library's home page. For the most complete list of libraries and collections with links to their Web pages select library hours.

Davis library is the central, and largest, library, with a collection centered on the humanities and the social sciences. The other large libraries on the main campus are the House Undergraduate Library, an interdisciplinary collection also housing the Library Reserves and the Media Resources Collection, and Wilson Library, home to the Manuscripts, North Carolina, Rare Book, and Maps collections, and the interim home of the Music Library. Further afield are the Katherine R. Everett Law Library, located in the Law School, and the Health Sciences Library, on South Campus adjoining the School of Medicine and UNC Hospital complex. There are also over a dozen smaller libraries in departments, schools, and research institutes supporting specific fields of study ranging from art to zoology.

You always can start by contacting the Davis Library Reference Department or the Reference librarians in House Undergraduate Library. If Davis or House is not where you should be, the librarians will be happy to assist you in determining which of the campus collections is more suited to your research and information needs.