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 35,000 library users during a typical mid-semester week
Provides access to 186,000 electronic books on subjects from poetry to computer software
Subscribes to 17,000 serials, including 10,500 electronic full-text journals
Checks out over 900 items per day
Conducted instruction sessions for over 15,000 students in 2007
Has digitized the entire 90-year history of the Florida Historical Quarterly,
consisting of 35,000 images of material.
Adds almost 140 volumes to its collection each day
Answers 1,100 reference questions during a typical week
Provides 250 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.
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.
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.
