George A. Smathers Libraries

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library_name = University of Florida Libraries
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collection_size = 4 million books & journals
7 million microfilms
2.5 million+ pages online
annual_circulation = 1 million
pop_served = 1.5 million a year
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director = Dean Judith C. Russell
num_employees = 384 (full-time)
website = http://www.ufl.edu/libraries/

The University of Florida's George A. Smathers Libraries includes seven of the nine libraries of the University of Florida and provide primary support to all academic programs except those served by the other two libraries, the Health Science Center Library and the Lawton Chiles Legal Information Center. The current Dean is Judith C. Russell. All of the libraries serve all of the university's faculty and students, but each has a special mission to be the primary support of specific colleges and degree programs. As is common in research libraries, library materials are housed in a variety of locations depending upon discipline. The three largest libraries cover an extensive range of disciplines while the smaller libraries focus on three or fewer disciplines.

pecifications

Other UF Library Collections

Collection Strengths

Together the Libraries hold over 4,000,000 catalogued volumes, 7,200,000 microforms, 1,000,000 documents, 550,000 maps and images, and 20,000 computer data sets. The libraries have built a number of nationally significant research collections primarily in support of graduate research programs. Among them are collections discussed above, i.e., the Latin American Collection, the Price Library of Judaica, and the Map and Imagery Library. Others include the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature which is among the world's greatest collections of literature for children (Smathers Library, Special Collections); and the P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History, which is the state's preeminent Floridiana collection, holding the largest collection of Spanish colonial documents concerning southeastern United States in North America as well as rich archives of prominent Florida politicians, (Smathers Library, Special Collections).

The Libraries also have particularly strong holdings in architectural preservation and 18th century American architecture (AFA), late 19th and early 20th century German state documents from 1850-1940, Latin American art and architecture, (AFA and Smathers Library), national bibliographies (Smathers Library, Reference), U.S. Census information, especially in electronic format (Marston Science Library, Documents), the rural sociology of Florida and tropical and subtropical agriculture collections (Marston Science Library), English and American Literature, and U.S. Documents (Marston Science Library, Documents).

ee also

*George A. Smathers, Former U.S. Senator who was the benefactor of the George A. Smathers Libraries.
* Library West
* Smathers Library
* University of Florida Digital Collections (UFDC)
* Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature
* Lawton Chiles Legal Information Center

External links

* [http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/ George A. Smathers Libraries]
* [http://www.ufl.edu/libraries Link to all of UF's libraries]
* [http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/UFDC/ University of Florida Digital Collections (UFDC),] including a [http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/UFDC/?m=hti statistics page] that is updated as materials are loaded
* [http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/msl/LibraryTimeline.html UF Libraries History Timeline]