Quick Facts about the UCF
Libraries
Did you know that the UCF Libraries...
- Holds over 2 million volumes
- Occupies a main library building of 226,000 gross square feet.
The portion occupied by University Libraries is 206,000 gross square
feet.
- Welcomes over 40,000 library users during a typical mid-semester
week
- Provides access to 593,000 electronic books on subjects from
poetry to computer software
- Subscribes to 29,000 serials, including 23,500 electronic
full-text journals
- Checks out over 850 items per day
- Conducted instruction sessions for over 22,000 students in 2010
- Has digitized the entire 90-year history of the Florida
Historical Quarterly, consisting of 35,000 images of material.
- Adds almost 100 volumes to its collection each day
- Answers 800 reference questions during a typical week
- Provides 350 computer workstations and 70 laptops for public use
- Delivers documents to UCF students living as far away as
Switzerland, in support of UCF's distributed learning programs
- Provides patrons with access to one of the largest databases in
the world, ALEPH, containing the holdings of the State
University Libraries of Florida
- Supports the local professional community by providing
information through its fee-based UCF InfoSource service
- Checks out wireless laptops to students for use on all five
floors of the main library building for research and class
presentations
- Has on display in the University Archives the shovel that turned
the first spade of earth at the university's groundbreaking on March
19, 1967
- Owns a Vulgate Bible printed in 1546, the oldest printed volume
in the UCF Libraries
- Owns a collection of books, serials, periodicals,
anthropological artifacts and paintings that document the history,
geography, economic and social life of the West Indies. See portions
of the Bryant
West Indies Collection.
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Resources and services include:
- Electronic access to journals, electronic
databases on CD-ROM, and Web-based information resources in the
library building and to users at home, office, or other off-campus
locations.
- Web pages at http://library.ucf.edu
which access the Libraries' electronic resources and give
information on the library's services and collections.
- Electronic access to more than 180 U.S. government databases.
- Professional research services to Central Florida's professional
and business communities through its
UCF InfoSource office.
- The U.S.
Patents and Trademark Depository Collection containing U.S.
Patents, from 1967, on microfilm.
- Archives/Special Collections
contain the History of the University, publications such as
yearbooks, student newspapers, commencement programs, copies of
faculty publications, and UCF dissertations, theses, etc.
- Original artwork located throughout the library. A brochure with
detailed information about the artwork can be found at the Reference
Desk on the entrance floor.
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Last updated April 05, 2011 9:42:37 AM
