Butler Library

From Wikipedia's article on Columbia University

The central Columbia library, holding 2 million volumes in the humanities. People there like to do two things:

1. Work.
2. Spend time on Boredatbutler.com.

It was named for Nicholas Murray Butler.

The Phillip L. Milstein Family College Library

Butler is also home to the Milstein Library which is the official designation for the 24-hour reading rooms and the collection of books stored within on the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th floors of the library. Since Milstein isn't really distinguishable from Butler itself in any major fashion, no one actually uses the term 'Milstein', and most probably don't even know that it 'exists'. After 11pm, when the other rooms of the library close, graduate students come down from other floors and overcrowd the 24-hour reading rooms.

Facilities

• Lockers: enter the lottery every year at http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/butler/lockers/.
• Photocopiers: on every floor.

Floor 2 (exit level)

• Blue Java Butler coffee bar.
• 214: the lounge, the only place you can eat and talk.
• 213: CUIT computer lab.
• 209-212: Milstein undergraduate reading rooms.