Welcome to the Entomology, Fisheries & Wildlife Library!

The Entomology, Fisheries, and Wildlife Library is a wild zoology collection.

Collection strengths are in aquaculture, conservation biology, bee and beekeeping literature, endangered animals, entomology, fisheries management, herpetology, ichthyology, mammalogy, non-human primatology, ornithology, animal taxonomy, and wildlife management.
Browse through the latest additions to the EFW Library collection.

This library is the primary collection for the Department of Entomology and the Department of Fisheries, Wildlife & Conservation Biology.

The EFW Library is a branch of the University Libraries.

History of the Library

The Library began with the collections of Otto Lugger, the first entomologist for the Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station, and Father Francis Jager, a faculty member whose bee collection came to the library in 1930. The collection includes books, serials, and state and federal documents.

Rare books at the EFW Library

The Library has an extensive collection of rare books, many of them from the Jager and Lugger collections. Notable works include the earliest English language work on entomology, Thomas Moffett's Insectorum, London, 1634. The oldest imprint in the collection is Guillaume Rondelet 's L'histoire entiere des poissons..., Lion , 1558. These and many other older materials are shelved in the Closed Stacks and are paged as needed by the library staff. The Special Collections materials do not circulate and must be used in the library under controlled conditions.