2010-2011 UF Graduate Catalog (PDF Format) - Graduate School ...

University of Florida Graduate School
Children's Literature, which is among the world's greatest collections
of literature for children (Special Collections, Smathers Library); the
Map and Imagery Library, which is an extensive repository of maps,
atlases, aerial photographs, and remote sensing imagery with
particular collection strengths for the southeastern United States,
Florida, Latin America, and Africa south of the Sahara (Marston
Science Library, Level One); the Isser and Ray Price Library of
Judaica, which is the largest collection of its kind in the Southeast
(Library West); and the P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History, which
is the state's preeminent Floridiana collection and holds the largest
North American collection of Spanish colonial documents about the
southeastern United States and rich archives of prominent Florida
politicians (Special Collections, Smathers Library).
The Libraries also have particularly strong holdings in architectural
preservation and 18th-century American architecture (Architecture
and Fine Arts), late 19th- and early-20th-century German state
documents (Library West), Latin American art and architecture
(Architecture and Fine Arts and Smathers Library), national
bibliographies (Humanities & Social Science Reference, Library
West), U.S. Census information, especially in electronic format, and
other U.S. documents (Documents Department, Marston Science
Library), the rural sociology of Florida and tropical and subtropical
agriculture collections (Marston Science Library), and English and
American literature (Library West).
Reference service is provided to library users in each library and is
also available via phone, e-mail and interactive chat. All of the
libraries provide special services to help students and faculty with
disabilities in their use of the libraries; information is available at all
circulation desks. At the start of each term, the Libraries offer
orientation programs to explain available services and how to use
them. Schedules are posted in each library at the start of each term
and in the training session part of the library webpage
(http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/jgs/instruct.html). Individual help is
available at the reference desk in each library. In addition,
instructional librarians will work with faculty and teaching assistants
to develop and present course-specific library instruction sessions.
Instruction coordinators are available in Humanities and Social
Science Reference in Library West, in Marston Science Library and in
the branches.
Subject specialists, who work closely with faculty and graduate
students to select materials for the collections, also advise graduate
students and other researchers who need specialized bibliographic
knowledge to define local and global information resources available
to support specific research. Consult the subject specialists when
starting work on a large research project or developing a working
knowledge of another discipline. A list of subject specialists is
available at information desks and via
http://apps.uflib.ufl.edu/staffdir/SubjectSpecialist.aspx. Users may
schedule a meeting with the appropriate specialist.
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