Raynor Memorial Libraries

Marquette's vast research environment is housed in two facilities:                                                                             

• Raynor Memorial Libraries                                            
• Law Library

The libraries offer more than 1.5 million volumes, hundreds

of research databases, computer access, laptops on loan,

a CD and video collection, and library staffs who

help researchers from around the world.

Raynor Memorial Libraries feature a mix of comfortable

seating and group study spaces, more than 200 computer stations and

24-hour, seven-days-a-week access to the main floor Information

Commons during the semesters.                                                       

Some of our most popular collections include the original

 manuscripts and multiple working drafts for three of J.R.R. Tolkien's most

 celebrated books, "The Hobbit" (1937), "Farmer Giles of Ham" (1949), and "The Lord of the Rings" (1954-1955), and a

 small collection of incunabula (from the "cradle period" of Western printing), including a 1473 edition of St. Augustine's

 "De Civitate Dei" (The City of God). Also from the 15th century is a two-volume edition of the Old Testament.