section_path: Education/Libraries
section_name: Libraries
paragraph_text: Libraries
  
  Academic and public libraries as well as archives in New Orleans include Monroe Library at Loyola University, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library at Tulane University, the Law Library of Louisiana, and the Earl K. Long Library at the University of New Orleans.
  
  The New Orleans Public Library operates in 13 locations. The main library includes a Louisiana Division that houses city archives and special collections.
  
  Other research archives are located at the Historic New Orleans Collection and the Old U.S. Mint.
  
  An independently operated lending library called Iron Rail Book Collective specializes in radical and hard-to-find books. The library contains over 8,000 titles and is open to the public.
  
  The Louisiana Historical Association was founded in New Orleans in 1889. It operated first at Howard Memorial Library. A separate Memorial Hall for it was later added to Howard Library, designed by New Orleans architect Thomas Sully.