George A. Smathers Libraries
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| Collection size | 4 million books & journals 7 million microfilms |
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| Annual circulation | 1 million |
| Population served | 1.5 million a year |
| Director | Dean Judith C. Russell |
| Employees | 384 (full-time) |
| Website | http://www.ufl.edu/libraries/ |
The University of Florida's George A. Smathers Libraries includes seven of the nine libraries of the University of Florida and provide primary support to all academic programs except those served by the other two libraries, the Health Science Center Library and the Lawton Chiles Legal Information Center. The current Dean is Judith C. Russell. All of the libraries serve all of the university's faculty and students, but each has a special mission to be the primary support of specific colleges and degree programs. As is common in research libraries, library materials are housed in a variety of locations depending upon discipline. The three largest libraries cover an extensive range of disciplines while the smaller libraries focus on three or fewer disciplines:
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[edit] Specifications
(aka "The French Fries")
| Library | Specifications |
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| Library West | Holds collections in the humanities and social sciences, including resources supporting the College of Business, Africana Area Studies, East Asian Area Studies, and the Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica. |
| Smathers Library | Holds the Latin American Collection and the Special and Area Studies Collections that include the University Archives, the PK Yonge Library of Florida History, the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature, and the Rare Book Collection. |
| Marston Science Library | Supports agriculture, engineering, mathematics, and the natural and physical sciences. The building also houses the Government Documents Department and the Map and Imagery Library. |
| Architecture and Fine Arts Library (201 Fine Arts Building A) |
Provides collections and services for architecture, fine arts, interior design, building construction, landscape architecture, and urban design. |
| Education Library (1500 Norman Hall) |
Holds education, child development, higher education, psychology, counseling, and children’s literature collections. |
| Allen H. Neuharth Journalism and Communications Library (1060 Weimer Hall) |
Holds a collection relating to journalism, advertising, public relations, and telecommunication. |
| Music Library (231 Music Building) |
Holds music collections including books, scores, and recorded music. |
[edit] Other UF Library Collections
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| UF Digital Collections | Comprise a constantly growing collection of digital resources from the University of Florida’s library collections as well as partner institutions. |
| Health Science Center Libraries | Serves the academic, research and clinical information needs of the six UF health science colleges of Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Health & Health Professions and Veterinary Medicine. The Borland Library (2nd floor, Learning Resource Center) is our Jacksonville branch, and the Veterinary Medicine Reading Room is located in room V1-110 in the CoVM Medicine Building. |
| Lawton Chiles Legal Information Center | Contains legal research materials supporting the study of state, federal, and international law. Notable collection areas include Florida, United States federal taxation, and British Commonwealth materials. |
[edit] Collection Strengths
Together the Libraries hold over 4,000,000 catalogued volumes, 7,200,000 microforms, 1,000,000 documents, 550,000 maps and images, and 20,000 computer data sets. The libraries have built a number of nationally significant research collections primarily in support of graduate research programs. Among them are collections discussed above, i.e., the Latin American Collection, the Price Library of Judaica, and the Map and Imagery Library. Others include the Baldwin Library of Children's Literature which is among the world's greatest collections of literature for children (Smathers Library, Special Collections); and the P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History, which is the state's preeminent Floridiana collection, holding the largest collection of Spanish colonial documents concerning southeastern United States in North America as well as rich archives of prominent Florida politicians, (Smathers Library, Special Collections).
The Libraries also have particularly strong holdings in architectural preservation and 18th century American architecture (AFA), late 19th and early 20th century German state documents from 1850-1940, Latin American art and architecture, (AFA and Smathers Library), national bibliographies (Smathers Library, Reference), U.S. Census information, especially in electronic format (Marston Science Library, Documents), the rural sociology of Florida and tropical and subtropical agriculture collections (Marston Science Library), English and American Literature, and U.S. Documents (Marston Science Library, Documents).
[edit] See Also
- George A. Smathers, Former U.S. Senator who was the benefactor of the George A. Smathers Libraries.
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