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LIBRARIES AND COMPUTING When the Board of Trustees provided for the first professor in 1800, they also established that a library collection be purchased for the sum of one thousand dollars. Today, UGA libraries own over 3.5 million volumes and over 5 million microform units.
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Libraries at the University of Georgia

The University of Georgia Libraries include three principal libraries on the UGA campus in Athens, with several branch locations throughout the state. The Main Library collects materials in the social sciences, humanities and business. The Science Library contains holdings for the physical and life sciences. The Student Learning Center provides access to electronic library holdings and research and study space for 2,240 students. Together the Libraries own over 3.5 million volumes and over 5 million microform units. Items in the collection can be identified through GIL, the UGA Libraries' online catalog. Administratively separate, the UGA Law Library has its own catalog, GAVEL.

The University of Georgia Libraries System

Homepage of the University of Georgia Libraries

Student Learning Center
The Student Learning Center, a 200,000-square-foot electronic library and classroom facility at the heart of campus, is designed to function for the way today's students learn. It contains over 500 computers for accessing the world wide web, 21,000 full-text journals and 29,000 full-text books, GALILEO research databases and electronic indexes and software packages. Access is through fully wired study carrels with over 2000 data drops and a pervasive wireless network. Students will also enjoy the 96 group study rooms and coffee shop.

Coastal Plain Experiment Station Library
The University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
Tifton Campus

Digital Library of Georgia
The Digital Library of Georgia is a gateway to Georgia's history and culture found in digitized books, manuscripts, photographs, newspapers, audio, video, and other materials.

Griffin Campus Library
The Griffin Campus Research Facility library, a branch of the University of Georgia Libraries, houses a representative collection of agricultural and applied economics, biological and agricultural engineering, crop and soil science, entomology, food science and technology, horticulture, plant genetic resources conservation, and related subjects. The Library is located in the Stuckey Building.

Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library
The Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library of the University of Georgia consists of the Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the Georgiana Collection, the University of Georgia Archives and Records Management. The Library serves the University scholarly community, as well as scholars and researches worldwide. Subject interests include Georgia, Book Arts, Theater, Music, History, Literature, Journalism and Genealogy.

Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies
The Russell Library is the only repository in Georgia directed solely toward support of scholarly research in modern political history, and it is the first repository to document modern politics and policy development in the Southeast.

Science Library
The Science Library at the University of Georgia supports collections for research and instruction in the basic and applied sciences. The collection presently has over 750,000 volumes and over 3,000 print journal titles with access to 19,000 full-text electronic journals on all subjects through the Electronic Journal Locator.

Skidaway Institute of Oceanography Library
The Skidaway Institute Library is the largest in the state devoted almost exclusively to marine science. The 6,100 square foot facility contains holdings of 4,000 book volumes and 17,000 serial volumes.

More UGA collections and departments

Alexander Campbell King Law Library
The primary purpose of the Law Library is to provide resources and services to support the instructional mission of the School of Law and the scholarly research of the law faculty. The Law Library also serves as the major source of legal information for students and faculty of the entire university and as a supplementary resource for attorneys and private citizens in the state.
Gavel : Law Library online catalogue

Career Center Library
The Career Center Library contains hundreds of helpful books, newspapers, magazines and video career resources. Additionally, several computers are available for taking self-assessment "career tests", as well as for other career-related usage.

Additional scholarly resources

GALILEO
Statewide library information resources


Main Library
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602-1641
706/542-3251
FAX 706/542-4144

Science Library
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602-7412
706/542-0698
FAX 706/582-6523



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