What is this Lux? Lux is the Lawrence University institutional repository, digital home to over 4000 scholarly and creative works of our students, faculty, and staff, as well as select historical documents.
If you are looking for interesting stories from student newspapers or alumni magazines, check Lux! You will find a rich and fascinating history.
Want to peruse recent honors projects? Lux is the place for you.
Are you a current student, faculty, or staff member of Lawrence University?
Are you away from campus for the summer?
Do you miss us?
No worries, friends, the Mudd Library is still here for you!
Whether you’re relaxing at a cottage up north, working hard at an internship across the country, or furthering your research in another country, we’re here to support you.
Here are a few ways you can use our resources, no matter where you are in the world:
You may not be here, but we are! Andrew explains our new ILL system at a recent staff meeting.
Check out this overview on how to connect with our electronic resources from
Our Electronic Resources page provides resources on a huge variety of topics: sciences, the humanities, fine arts, social sciences, medical, consumer and business, statistics, news, education, and more!
off campus.
Explore our electronic resources page – we have a TON of cool resources that you can take advantage of from the comfort of, well, anywhere!
Marvel at honors projects from 2017 or issues of The Lawrentian from 1923. You can find these in Lux, the digital home for the scholarly and creative works of the Lawrence community.
Login to our video resources with your LU ID to access thousands of streaming videos.
If you need help or have any questions, a reference librarian is on call throughout the summer, from 9 am to 4 pm, Monday through Friday. Feel free to ask a librarian if you’re having trouble accessing our resources or if you have questions about using them.
No matter where you are in the world, you can still enjoy the Mudd!
We are pleased to announce that Lux has reached the milestone of 200,000 downloads since 2012! That means items that were created here, at Lawrence, have been viewed by people all over the world 200,000 times. Pretty cool!
The Lux institutional repository is the home for the scholarly and creative output of Lawrence University. What does that mean, exactly? Lux is an electronic database that contains scholarly articles, art projects, honors projects, meeting documentation, and more- all created by Lawrence University students, faculty, and staff.
Here are a few examples of what can be found in Lux:
