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General Collection The Andersen Horticultural Library houses 16,000 volumes and more than 350 periodicals. The collections focus on the literature of horticulture, botany, landscape architecture and local natural history. The collections range from materials of general interest, to specialized horticultural research, to children's literature on nature and gardening.  The Andersen Horticultural Library is a non-circulating reading and reference library. This assures users ready access to materials. Current monographs and periodicals are housed on open shelves for easy access.
Book and periodicals can be searched and located using MNCAT , the University of Minnesota computerized catalog.
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Historic Special Collections
The heart of the library is its research collections which include in its special collection many of the classic works in botany and horticulture dating back to the 16th century. To ensure these works are available for present and future researchers, the rare and older books are housed in a climate-controlled, secured room.
By submitting an application in advance, qualified researchers may use the special collections and archives not on the open shelves.
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Nursery and Seed Catalog Collection The library maintains North America's largest current seed and nursery catalog collections representing over 1400 firms. A very large research collection of over 50,000 historic seed and nursery catalogs dates back to the early 19th century. These catalogs are heavily used to trace the development of horticulture and plant introductions and they feature beautiful examples of American plant illustration.
A portion of the current catalog collection and periodical collection is indexed to create Plant Information Online. This online database allows users to find sources for a particular plant, locate plant citations, find information on North American nurseries, and find basic plant information and illustrations on the web.
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