Walter Schroeder Library
Rosenberg Hall
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1235 N. Milwaukee Street This three-story, 20,000-square-foot building was constructed in 1964 as a school of mortuary science, and has been used by several occupants over the years. It was purchased by MSOE through the generosity of Kenneth and Doris Rosenberg. The late Dr. Kenneth Rosenberg was a 1950 graduate of MSOE. After a major renovation project, the building opened for classes in fall 1999. It comprises Rader School of Business Offices, classrooms and laboratories, a study lounge and the U.S. Department of Commerce-Milwaukee Export Assistance Center offices.
Rader School of Business MSOE’s business programs provide students with a solid foundation for an exciting career in many industries, such as telecommunications, ebusiness, marketing, international business, finance, health care management and more. For more than 50 years, the unique blend of technical courses with traditional business courses, such as marketing, finance and economics, help MSOE graduates stand out among the rest, demonstrated by our excellent job placement rate and high starting salaries. The Rader School of Business is named after longtime supporter the late Dr. I. Andrew (“Tiny”) Rader, MSOE Regent Emeritus, former chairman of The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation and retired chairman and CEO of Allen-Bradley Co., which is now Rockwell International.
Murphy House (262) 285-4050 The Murphy House is named after Greta Werwath Murphy, the daughter of MSOE’s founder, and her husband, John, who donated their home on Lake Michigan in Belgium, Wis. It serves as a retreat center for the campus and provides rooms for seminars and conferences in a beautiful setting.
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500 E. Kilbourn Avenue Dedicated by former U.S. President Gerald Ford in 1980, the Walter Schroeder Library is a service-oriented facility committed to providing scholarly, educational, and other types of information resources and services to the MSOE community—including students, faculty and staff—in response to the educational, research, administrative and social concerns of the university. The collection consists of books, periodicals, newspapers, master's theses, microforms, selected senior design projects, electronic databases and media programs. The first and second floors house library materials and group study rooms. The third floor contains classrooms and faculty offices. The library is named after Walter Schroeder (1878-1967), a Milwaukeean in the insurance, mortgage loan and bond business, who later became a hotelier. Schroeder owned the Hotel Wisconsin; he built the Astor Hotel, and in 1920, the Schroeder Hotel (now Hilton), his pride and joy. Schroeder established the Walter Schroeder Foundation in 1963; funds from the foundation were used by MSOE to build the library. A popular paperback book lounge area, an elegant conference meeting room (the Schroeder Room), group study rooms, scanners, a digital photocopier/printer, Internet research desktop and laptop computers, and free printing are available, as well as food and beverage vending machines and café seating. Study rooms and several study carrels are networked, and the library is wireless. A math/physics drop-in tutoring lab, sponsored by the Learning Resource Center, is hosted by the library. The library also houses an Archives that documents the history of the university. A CVST machine is available for adding money to MSOE ID cards. In cooperation with the Center for BioMolecular Modeling (CBM), the library additionally maintains a unique Model Lending Library that makes available on loan several of the physical biomolecular models produced by the CBM. The library regularly features unique exhibits. The library provides access to several bibliographic and full-text databases, available both on campus and remotely. Electronic books and journals are also made available by the library via the campus network and the Web. Through its extensive database services, the library offers access to 72,000 electronic journals and more than 23,000 e-books. The third floor houses the Mathematics Department, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science faculty offices and classrooms.
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