Region 5 Library Services

National Services
for the Public:

Region 5 Links:

Region 5 Home Page

Contact Information

We are located at:
16th Floor, Metcalfe Building
77 West Jackson Boulevard
Chicago, IL

We can be contacted at:
Phone: (312) 886-6822
Fax: (312) 886-1492
E-Mail: library.r05@epa.gov

Mailing Address:
EPA Region 5 Library
16th Floor, Metcalfe Building
77 West Jackson Boulevard
Chicago, IL 60604

Hours of Operation

9:00 AM – 3:00 PM, Monday through Thursday.
Closed on Fridays and federal holidays.

Services include reference/research assistance and interlibrary loan/document delivery. Core library services and local collections are supported and supplemented by additional services provided by the Andrew W. Breidenbach Environmental Research Center Library in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Borrowing Policy

Borrowing privileges are generally limited to EPA staff, other libraries, and local businesses/organizations with established borrowing arrangements.

The Region 5 Library does not circulate materials to individuals. However, the public is welcome to visit the library, by appointment, and use library materials onsite. The Librarian is available to answer questions.

Members of the public or students wishing to borrow materials and unable to visit should contact their local public, school, or university library and ask for an Interlibrary Loan. To locate EPA library materials, you can search the Online Library System (OLS), EPA Libraries' online catalog. If you have any questions, please call or e-mail.

Information For Other Libraries: We freely share materials with other libraries in North America via the OCLC Interlibrary Loan system. Our OCLC symbol is ELA and we are members of FEDL (Federal Libraries and Information Centers) and LVIS (Libraries Very Interested in Sharing). For libraries that do not have OCLC access, please contact the Librarian at (312) 886-6822 or library.r05@epa.gov for alternate methods.

Many library services are available electronically for the public. EPA employees have additional on-line resources (such as journals and other periodicals) available via Desktop Library Services.

EPA Library Services for the Public

The EPA National Library Network provides a variety of public services:

National Environmental Publications Internet Site (NEPIS), part of the National Service Center for Environmental Publications (NSCEP)
Online Library System (OLS)
EPA Library Services and Repositories