The University of Texas at Arlington Undergraduate Catalog
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The U.T. Arlington Libraries are one of the most important resources on campus for teaching and research. In addition to over 1 million physical volumes on the shelves, the Central Library, the Science and Engineering Library, and the Architecture and Fine Arts Library contain a rapidly growing collection of periodicals, documents, technical reports, microfilm, microfiche, motion pictures, sound recordings, videotapes, filmstrips, computer disks, and maps. They have access to approximately 15,000 electronic journals. The Central Library makes available group study rooms, graduate-study carrels and faculty carrels. The Libraries provide a full array of modern technological access to print and electronic information through PULSe, the online catalog for the U.T. Arlington Libraries. Databases and full-text journals may be reached by any U.T. Arlington IP connected computer on campus, such as faculty offices, Office of Information Technology (OIT) computer labs or dorm data ports, or any library computer, and off campus through the university modems or via proxy server. The Libraries provide remote access to many electronic databases and online journals. Among the more popular databases are: Academic Universe (Lexis/Nexis), which provides current news and law information; ABI/ Inform and Periodicals Abstracts Research II, which indexes more than 1,000 journals in the business and management areas; ACM Digital Library indexes journals and proceedings of the Association for Computing Machinery; Dow Jones Interactive provides current news from journals and newspapers; IDEAL consists of full-text journals published by Academic Press; IEEE is a vast collection of engineering journals; netLibrary is searchable full-text access to thousands of electronic books; OVID Nursing Collection provides access to nursing articles; Periodical Abstracts Research (PAR) is access to general news and social sciences; Project Muse and JSTOR are collections of full-image journals in the humanities and social sciences; and ScienceDirect provides full-text Elsevier journals. Staff in the Central Library’s Information Services Department, the Science and Engineering Library, the Architecture and Fine Arts Library, and the Special Collections Division provide assistance using the Libraries’ collections. The business librarians now have an office in the Business building to assist students and faculty with specialized business databases and collections. The Central Library is responsible for the humanities, social sciences, business, nursing, education, geology, legal materials, and government publications. The Government Publications and Maps Collection contains more than 900,000 publications of the United States government and international organizations. The Central Library also contains the Minority Cultures Collection, a circulating and reference collection covering the political, social, cultural, economic, and intellectual history of Native Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, and Mexican Americans in the southwestern United States from U.S. independence to the present. The Reading Resources Room, which provides a curriculum library and a collection of juvenile and young adult literature, is adjacent to the information desk on the second floor of the Central Library. The Special Collections Division contains the Jenkins Garrett Library of Texana and Mexican War material and the Virginia Garrett Cartographic History Library. Special Collections includes archives relating to UTA’s history since 1895 and the history of organized labor in Texas and the Southwest. The Division also holds archives and newspapers of Yucatán, colonial archives of Honduras and collections relating to the political history of Texas. The division’s historical photograph and negative collection, which includes approximately 3 million images of Texas dating from the 19th through most of the 20th centuries, is one of the best in the state. The Science and Engineering Library is housed in the basement of Nedderman Hall. It includes materials pertinent to engineering, biology, physics, chemistry, and mathematics, including reference, circulating books, reserve, and periodicals. The Architecture and Fine Arts Library is housed on the first floor of the Architecture Building. Its collection includes all materials pertinent to architecture, art, photography, and music, including reference, circulating books, reserve, periodicals, scores, musical records, cassettes, and compact disks. It houses a music listening lab. Materials not available in the U.T. Arlington Libraries may be borrowed from other libraries through the Interlibrary Loan Office, a unit of the Department of Access Services. The Central Library provides a microform collection with the reading/printing equipment. Taking into account space considerations of this research library, some important but infrequently-used volumes from the U.T. Arlington Libraries collection are retained in the collection but are located in remote storage, and may be retrieved within a couple of days. For students, staff, and faculty the TexShare library card entitles the bearer to privileges in libraries of universities, law and medical schools, private and community colleges across Texas, as well as some public libraries. Non-library services available at the Central Library include a photocopy center located in the basement. The English Department Writing Lab, available to all U.T. Arlington students, is on the fourth floor. The Office of Information Technology runs a computer lab on the fifth floor with both PC and Mac hardware and software. A joint venture between the U.T. Arlington Libraries and OIT is Sam’s Click Cafe, an Internet cafe on the first floor of Central Library. This has 36 computer workstations, overstuffed furniture, and a coffee bar serving a large array of coffees, teas, soft drinks, and snacks. The library has a number of laptops available to check out from the Circulation Desk to use independently or in conjunction with the Internet cafe data ports. In the same location OIT runs a help desk where students may take establish university computer accounts. Additional library information may be obtained at any of the information or circulation desks of the three library locations. Regular library hours are posted, as are hours for semester breaks, holidays, Summer terms, Wintersession, and Maymester, and other special circumstances. For more information, visit us on the Web at www.uta.edu/library. Director: Tom Wilding, Room 611, Central Library, Box 19497, Arlington, TX 76019, e-mail cenref@library.uta.edu. --- |