Regenstein Library

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Regenstein Library
Main approach to Regenstein Library
41°47′32″N 87°35′59″W / 41.7922°N 87.5998°W / 41.7922; -87.5998
Location	Hyde Park, Chicago, United States
Type	Academic library
Established	1970 (1970)
Branch of	University of Chicago Library
Collection
Items collected	books, journals, newspapers, magazines, sound and music recordings, maps, prints, drawings and manuscripts
Size	4.5 million [1]
Access and use
Members	33,000
Other information
Director	Brenda Johnson
Website	www.lib.uchicago.edu/reg/
References: Abbott Report

The Joseph Regenstein Library (colloquially, the Reg) is the University of Chicago’s primary library, located on the University’s Hyde Park campus on the South Side of Chicago. Named after the industrialist and philanthropist Joseph Regenstein, it is one of the largest repositories of books in the world. The Regenstein is noted for its brutalist architecture.^{[2][better source needed]}