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Dr. William R. Love Science Library
First Floor, Hale Library
532-0548


The Dr. William R. Love Science Library serves as an information retrieval resource center for Kansas State University, meeting the research and instructional needs of the faculty and students in science and agriculture disciplines. Dr. William R. Love was born and raised in the southeast Kansas community of Bronson, where he grew up working on the family farm. In 1929, Dr. Love graduated from K-State with a degree in industrial chemistry. He later received a degree from the University of Kansas Medical Center, and worked for a time at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. In addition to serving as an Associate Professor at Ohio State University, Dr. Love maintained a private practice as a dermatologist in Dayton, Ohio until his retirement in 1977.

Dr. William R. Love Science Library serves the following areas:

Agronomy Foods & Nutrition
Animal Sciences & Industry Grain Science & Industry
Biochemistry Geology
Biology Horticulture, Forestry & Recreation
Chemistry Kinesiology
Communications (Agricultural) Plant Pathology
Entomology Statistics


The following services & functions are provided by the Dr. William R. Love Science Library:

  • Science reference
  • Science current periodicals
  • Current awareness in the life and physical sciences and agriculture
  • Individual and group instruction on science, agriculture and engineering databases and resources
  • Academic departmental liaison
  • Collection management in the sciences and technology
  • Research consultation
  • Scanner and photocopier
  • Agricultural Documents

Science reference assistance is provided in the Dr. William R. Love Science Library on the first floor of Hale Library. The counter is staffed Monday - Friday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm. Dr. William R. Love Science Library staff and Subject Librarians help patrons use library resources for class assignments, research projects, and personal inquiries, and will provide instructional tours, classes and workshops related to KSU courses. The Science Reference Collection includes scientific and technical encyclopedias, dictionaries, indexes, statistical tables, directories of addresses, and other reference books. The Science Reference telephone number is: 785-532-0548.

There are other science libraries on the Manhattan K-State campus:

Fiedler Engineering Library
Math/Physics Library
Veterinary Medical Library

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