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Library System
Director of Libraries: Margo Crist
Hours of Opening (a recording):
545-0414
Reference and Information:
545-0150
Circulation Office: 545-2622
Web site: www.library.umass.edu
Librarians
The University Library System consists of the 28-story W.E.B. Du Bois
Library, two science libraries, and the music library. Present library
holdings include more than five million books, periodical volumes, and
government documents; over two million of these items are in microformat.
The W.E.B. Du Bois Library is the location for most
reference materials, and the book and periodical collection in the social
sciences and humanities. As well, it houses the microfilm collection,
a law collection, the University archives, special collections and rare
books, and the Government Documents collection. The reserve reading collection
and audio-visual reserve materials are available on the Library's third
floor. The Music Library is on floors 18 and 19 of the Du Bois Library
and includes music materials and listening facilities. A Music reserve
lab with listening facilities is scheduled to open in the Fine Arts Center
in spring 2000. Most of the science collection is found in two branch
libraries: the Biological Sciences Library, tel. 545-2674, on the second
floor of the Morrill Science Center, and the Physical Sciences and Engineering
Library, tel. 545-1370, on the second floor of the Lederle Graduate Research
Center.
A current UCard, the University photographic I.D.,
serves as a library card. Reference librarians provide information about
the library system and the use of its collections,
and about Five College library cooperation. They offer instruction in
using electronic resources and developing
strategies for research through class sessions, workshops and individual
appointments.
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