Butler Library
Butler Library is the main library for undergraduates, named for Nicholas Murray Butler. It holds 2 million volumes in the humanities. Butler has study rooms open 24 hours a day during the school year. Students in Butler tend to either work or spend time on Boredatbutler.com.
Milstein Library
Butler is also home to the Phillip L. Milstein Family College 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.
Butler culture
- Inspired the site Boredatbutler.com.
- Students supposedly make out in the stacks. No one has ever seen this actually happen.
