Designed to serve as a centerpiece of the River Campus when it was dedicated in 1930, Rush Rhees Library is now home to the Art and Music Library, the Barbara J. Burger iZone, the Janis and James S. Gleason Library, the Department of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, and the Rossell Hope Robbins Library and Koller-Collins Center for English Studies, and the University Archives.

The tower of Rush Rhees library is the home to the Hopeman Memorial Carillon, a set of bells played from a keyboard and pedalboard. It is one of only seven carillons in New York State. Learn more about the Carrillon.

Rhees Quad
Great Hall
Evan Lam Square
Interior view of the Messinger Periodical Room, Rush Rhees Library 2014
Skelton Window
Welles Brown Room
iZone - View from the balcony looking down
Art & Music Library view of stacks and entrance
Plutzik Reading Room RBSCP
Gleason library in full swing in the middle of the night
Rossell Hope Robbins Library
Mailing Address
755 Library Road
Rochester NY 14627
Phone: 585-275-5804
Atmosphere