Thomas Blvd. Library is home to the University Library System’s off-site shelving facility, ULS Thomas Blvd., as well as our second Archives & Special Collections Reading Room.
Need an item from our stacks? See Ways You Can Request Materials for more information. ULS-Thomas Blvd. is not open to the public but we deliver to all campus libraries, including regionals, Barco Law Library, and HSLS. Most requests can be fulfilled within 24 hours!
Using the Archives? Make an appointment to view materials at the Archives & Special Collections reading room here.
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ULS-Thomas Blvd. first opened in November 2002 with a new addition completed in October 2018.
Thomas Blvd. Library uses the Harvard model of high density storage with shelving reaching heights of 30 ft. It has a combined footprint of 40,600 sq ft and at full capacity can hold 6 million volumes. Our collections consists of books, journals, maps, newspapers, LP’s, VHS, films, laserdiscs, audio cassettes, CD’s, DVD’s, Gov’t Docs, microform, and Special Collections and archival materials.
Our facility is climate-controlled specifically to create the ideal preservation environment for our materials, with temperatures between 60-65% and relative humidity between 40-45%.
We're adding new items every day!
We are proud to use CaiaSoft storage management software!
Off-site Shelving—ULS-Thomas Blvd.
Charlotte Johnson
Research Collection Coordinator
412-383-7044
Archives & Special Collections @ Thomas Blvd. Library
7500 Thomas Blvd.
Pittsburgh, PA 15208
412-648-3232