Hillman Library

Great place for learning. Its quite and has many desks and comfortable chairs
Also you can find a café inside for a break.
For foreign students its maybe good to know that the wifi is the standard «eduroam». So you can login with european student id
Only the air conditioner is a little bit too loud

I give three stars for a couple reasons.
1. Ugly architecture (petty, I know)
2. I detest their storage of past periodicals.
3. They have limited private study areas.
The awesome aspects include:
1. great collection
2. Awesome staff
3. Amazing hours.
4. Ample computers
5. Awesome outreach

Great library. I get a lot of work done here when I need to get away from the lab. A bunch of desks on each of the four (five, including basement) floors to do work at, most with great views of either Schenley Drive on one side with the cathedrals, Schenley Square and Schenley Park– and the rustle and bustle of Forbes on the other side. Coming here during finals weeks is kind of a nightmare and you probably won’t be able to find an open seat. Another concern that is most definitely lumped into a «first world problem» is the limited amount of outlets under the desks. About half of these personal desks have outlets, so make sure if you are doing binge work that will require laptop power-​up that you get one of these coveted seats. Also, there’s a nice computer lab downstairs to print any papers off that you need (if you are a Pitt student), and I’m particularly happy about the oh-​so-​exclusive dissertation writing room on the 4^th floor– because I plan to spend a lot of time there next year.

With 6,148,036 volumes, the Hillman Library comes in 29^th on the list of largest libraries in the United States. I especially like the café, Cup and Chaucer, which sometimes features live music. The library features an extensive digital archives collection, including the Historic Pittsburgh Maps Collection.

Hillman is a fantastic library with an enormous collection of information!
PROS:
lots of seating
lots of computers
plenty of printer stations
friendly staff
a total of 5 floors full of information and seating areas
Lowest level has a café (but no food/​bev outside of the café – though I don’t think that close-​able containers are too heavily frowned upon)
CONS:
the only one that I can think of is that I wish that there were more plug outlets throughout the building for plugging in laptops instead of just in the designated «laptop area».