About Minerva

Minerva is the principal online public access catalog (OPAC) for University of Louisville.  Another online catalog at UofL is the Grawemeyer Catalog (the catalog for the Grawemeyer Collection of Contemporary Music).

What is in Minerva?

Minerva contains records for over 2 million items located in the 6 libraries on UofL campuses.  (See the Libraries main web page for a complete list of UofL libraries and collections.) The catalog provides complete information about all of the University's holdings.  Included are records for:

• books
• serials (journals, magazines, newspapers)
• electronic resources
• government documents
• maps
• microform collections
• printed music
• sound recordings
• video recordings
• working papers
• manuscripts and archival materials
• rare books

What is not in Minerva?

• Resources in the Grawemeyer Collection of Contemporary Music.
• Records for specific articles within magazines and journals. Search one of our Article databases to find article-level indexing.

If Minerva is available but you are having problems using it, please contact Ekstrom Reference Department.