Located central to the downtown campus on University Avenue, the Downtown Library and Wise Library are connected by an atrium and house a wide variety of materials. The Downtown Library has materials related to history, political science, public administration, foreign languages, journalism, psychology, biology, botany, physics, math, chemistry, communication studies, business, economics, literature, geography, sociology, and anthropology. Many special collections are located in the Wise Library, including the West Virginia & Regional History Center, the Appalachian Collection, and the Rare Book Collection.