About the Library
The Thomas J. Long Business & Economics Library occupies 50,000 square feet on two levels of the Student Services Wing, Walter A. Haas School of Business. The school and the library were designed by the late Charles Moore and his colleagues at Moore Ruble Yudell. The library, which opened to the public in January 1995, was built with funds generously provided by the Thomas J. Long Foundation, with additional gifts from the Clarence E. Heller Estate, the family and friends of Steven V. White, as well as other generous alumni and friends of the School.
The library's entry level is devoted to public services including circulation and reserves services, the Steven V. White Business Information Center, which provides reference and research assistance to the library's clients, and a variety of networked and other public-access online information workstations.
The lower level of the library contains the Clarence E. Heller Reading Room for current business newspapers, the current periodicals stacks, the library's microform collection, the book and bound periodical stacks, group study rooms (which may be reserved for use by business and economics students at the library's Circulation desk), general study areas, individual study carrels, and restrooms. Copy service rooms are located on both levels of the library.
The library provides 55 individual carrels and more than 25 sharable work tables, all equipped with electrical and network connections for students, faculty and other library clients.