George A. Smathers Libraries - Specifications

Library Specifications
Library West Is one of the main Libraries in the George A. Smathers Library System. It holds collections in the humanities and social sciences, including resources supporting the Warrington College of Business, African Studies, East Asian Area Studies, and the Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica. This library completed a $30 million renovation in December 2003 that doubled its capacity, better equipped information technology, and added a Starbucks to the lobby.
Smathers Library (formerly Library East) Holds many of the Special and Area Studies Collections including the Latin American Collection, the University Archives which includes the University of Florida Health Science Center Archives (housed in a separate location), the Architecture Archives, the P. K. Yonge Library of Florida History, the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature, Manuscript Collection, the Popular Culture Collections, and the Rare Book Collection. Also home to the Preservation Unit, Acquisitions and Licensing Department and the Cataloging and Metadata Department, as well as the University of Florida's Digital Library Center which supports the University of Florida Digital Collections.
Marston Science Library This is the other main library in the George A. Smathers Library System. It was named after former president of the University of Florida, Robert Q. Marston. The 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. At present the collection has more than 125,000 volumes. The Library is one of the largest visual arts collections in the southern United States.
Education Library
(1500 Norman Hall)
Holds education, child development, higher education, education psychology, counseling, and children’s literature collections. The collection consists of about 150,000 monographic volumes, approximately 600 journal subscriptions, and almost 600,000 microfiche.
Allen H. Neuharth Journalism and Communications Library
(1060 Weimer Hall)
Holds a collection relating to journalism, advertising, public relations, and telecommunication. The collection has books, journals, newsletters, videos, magazines, newspapers and various other resources.
Music Library
(231 Music Building)
Houses music scores, books, periodicals, and other music-related sources, including a non-circulating collection of sound and visual recordings.
University of Florida Health Science Center Libraries The Health Science Center libraries serve the academic, research, and clinical information needs of the six colleges that make up the J. Hillis Miller Health Science Center. The College of Dentistry at UF, the College of Medicine at UF, the College of Nursing at UF, the College of Pharmacy at UF, the College of Public Health & Health Professions at UF and the College of Veterinary Medicine at UF. In addition the Borland Library (2nd floor, Learning Resource Center) can be found at Shands Jacksonville which is the Jacksonville branch campus of the Health Science Center, and the Veterinary Medicine Reading Room is located in room V1-110 in the CoVM Medicine Building in Jacksonville, Florida.

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