New Orleans

===Libraries===
Academic and [[public library|public libraries]] as well as archives in New Orleans include [[Loyola University New Orleans#Monroe Library|Monroe Library]] at Loyola University, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library at [[Tulane University]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Howard-Tilton Memorial Library |url=http://library.tulane.edu/ |access-date=May 17, 2006 |archive-date=May 17, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060517001914/http://library.tulane.edu/ |url-status=live }}</ref> the Law Library of Louisiana,<ref>{{cite web |title=Law Library of Louisiana |publisher=Louisiana Supreme Court |url=http://www.lasc.org/law_library/library_information.asp |access-date=May 17, 2006 |archive-date=April 27, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060427023550/http://www.lasc.org/law_library/library_information.asp |url-status=live }}</ref> and the [[Earl Long|Earl K. Long]] Library at the University of New Orleans.<ref>{{cite web |title=Earl K. Long Library |publisher=University of New Orleans |url=http://library.uno.edu/ |access-date=May 17, 2006 |archive-date=April 25, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060425032734/http://library.uno.edu/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

The [[New Orleans Public Library]] operates in 13 locations.<ref>{{cite web |title=NOPL Branches |publisher=Hubbell Library |url=http://www.hubbelllibrary.org/nopl/branches.mgi |access-date=May 17, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060708144702/http://www.hubbelllibrary.org/nopl/branches.mgi |archive-date=July 8, 2006 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all}}</ref> The main library includes a Louisiana Division that houses city archives and special collections.<ref>{{cite web |title=Louisiana Division, City Archives and Special Collections |publisher=New Orleans Public Library |url=http://nutrias.org/~nopl/spec/speclist.htm |access-date=May 17, 2006 |archive-date=June 15, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060615173853/http://nutrias.org/~nopl/spec/speclist.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>

Other research archives are located at [[the Historic New Orleans Collection]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Williams Research Center |publisher=Historic New Orleans Collection |url=http://www.hnoc.org/willcent.htm |access-date=May 17, 2006 |archive-date=June 15, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060615051838/http://hnoc.org/willcent.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> and the [[New Orleans Mint|Old U.S. Mint]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Old US Mint |publisher=Louisiana State Museum |url=http://lsm.crt.state.la.us/mintex.htm |access-date=May 17, 2006 |archive-date=May 19, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060519131950/http://lsm.crt.state.la.us/mintex.htm |url-status=dead}}</ref>

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 (architect)|Thomas Sully]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lahistory.org/uploads/UrquhartLHAHistoryFinal.pdf |author=Kenneth Trist Urquhart |title=Seventy Years of the Louisiana Historical Association |date=March 21, 1959 |location=[[Alexandria, Louisiana]] |publisher=lahistory.org |access-date=July 21, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100923165732/http://lahistory.org/uploads/UrquhartLHAHistoryFinal.pdf |archive-date=September 23, 2010}}</ref>