Matheson Reading Room
About the William L. Matheson Reading Room
- Located on the third floor of the Candler Library building.
- Access via the Candler main entrance or via the bridge that connects to level 3 of the Robert W. Woodruff Library.
- Six iMac workstations are available.
- Hours
Features
The reading room features large tables and soft couches for a comfortable and quiet study space. Ethernet access is available for Emory students, staff and faculty via cable ports in the desk lamps or wireless throughout the room. Restrooms are located next to the newspaper room.
The reading room is Woodruff library's holding space for its current periodicals. Journals and magazines are shelved in alphabetical order by title, starting to the right of the service desk and continuing clockwise around the room.
Newspapers are shelved alphabetically in the newspaper room, located to the left as you enter the reading room from the Woodruff Library bridge.
In most cases, the library keeps approximately the most recent year’s worth of journal or magazine issues in the reading room. Older issues may be bound and shelved by call number in the stacks, replaced by microfilm, or kept in the storage library. Newspapers are usually kept for approximately 3 months, until replaced by microfilm.
More
Learn about the amazing renovation of this space that took place in the late 1990s - early 2000s.