The University Libraries’ collections total more than 2.47 million books, federal and state documents, microforms, and other formats. We now house 1,132,918 printed volumes, and we keep our materials up to date by adding approximately 40,000 new titles each year. We subscribe to approximately 3600 printed journals and magazines, more than 35,000 full-text electronic journals, and more than 300,000 electronic books.
The Library Catalog of UNCG currently contains holdings for materials in the Walter Clinton Jackson Library, the Music Library, the University Teaching and Learning Center, the Multicultural Resource Center, and the Teaching Resource Center. Special Collections, Rare Books, and University Archives are increasingly available via the online catalog.
Jackson Library houses a growing collection of Electronic Resources. Over 300 electronic databases are accessible in the Library and campus-wide. Most are also available to currently affiliated UNCG faculty, students, and staff accessing the Internet from home or office. Assistance in using electronic databases can be obtained from the Reference Department.
The Library subscribes to approximately 3600 printed journals, serials, and newspapers. Holdings are listed in the Library Catalog. The Library also provides access to the full text of nearly 40,000 electronic journals and over a thousand online newspapers via its News and Newspapers Online service. The Journal Finder service provides one-stop access to journals in print and electronic formats at Jackson Library and beyond. Developed at UNCG, the service is now used by more than forty other libraries across the United States.
The Reference Collection is located in the Reference Department on the first floor of the Library's main wing. The collection consists of general and specialized encyclopedias, dictionaries, directories, and biographical sources. The Reference Collection also includes government reference sources, indexes and abstracts, telephone directories, and a map collection containing more than 14,000 items. Items do not circulate. The Reference Department's Subject Guides provide access to online and print resources on a variety of topics.
The Government Documents web pages provide extensive links to local, state, and national government information. The Government Documents collection is a part of the Reference Department. Service is at the main Reference Desk on the 1st floor. The collection includes both Federal and North Carolina documents. The Library Catalog contains records of the Library's collection of Federal documents published after 1976 and NC State documents published after 1987.
The Microforms Collection is administered by the Reference Department and is located on the second floor of the Library's main wing. It houses more than a million items. Many microforms holdings are listed in the Library Catalog.
The Music Library is located on the main level of the School of Music building (corner of W Market and McIver Streets) and supports the educational, research, and service goals of the University by providing music resources, information, and services required by students, faculty, staff and community members. Our collection consists of sound recordings, video recordings, scores, books and serials about music. Faculty, staff, and students are welcome to come to the Music Library to listen to and view sound and video materials and to check out books and scores.
Rare books and manuscripts are located in Special Collections and Rare Books on the second floor of the Library's main wing. Also housed here are a number of important research collections, including the Woman's Collection of historical materials dating from the sixteenth century; over 3000 of works of detective fiction by American women authors from the 19th to mid-20th centuries; a large collection of early children's books dating from the eighteenth century; internationally recognized cello music materials, historical works on dance and physical education; and major author collections, including Randall Jarrell, Lois Lenski and George Herbert. Modern private press works and fine printings, artists' books and American trade bindings are well represented in the book arts collection. Manuscript holdings are increasingly available in the Library Catalog.
The University Archives and Manuscripts is located in the same area as the Special Collections and Rare Books on the second floor of the Library's main wing. Many of the materials housed in the Archives do not appear in the Library Catalog. Records of the past Chancellors, a collection of over 50,000 images dating from the 1890s, and University and student publications are among the two million items preserved in the Archives. The Archives also contain faculty papers, private manuscript collections, such as the Joseph M. Bryan Archives, and records of several campus organizations. Papers and records in University Archives are increasingly available via the Library Catalog.
The Women Veterans Historical Project, developed and maintained by the University Archives, is a research collection for scholars of military history as well as women's studies.
Most of our reserve materials are now available online through Blackboard, but we do still maintain a small print reserves collection, located at the circulation desk on the the first floor.
