The University Libraries include the main Walter Clinton Jackson Library and the Music Library, a separate facility located in the School of Music Building. Jackson Library has the shelving capacity for more than one million books, an area of 131,705 square feet, and seating capacity for 850. The Music Library has approximately 10,000 square feet and seating space for 86. The libraries offer a variety of materials and services to its users. Information regarding collections is available through the Libraries' online catalogue. In addition, computerized database searches can retrieve vast amounts of information in a short period of time. Orientation to the library and instruction in use of information resources are available.
Current library holdings number more than 3.3 million items, including 740,000 federal and state documents and 1 million items in microtext. The Libraries subscribe to approximately 4,000 newspapers, periodicals, and other serials in paper form, with access to more than 33,000 electronically through the Journal Finder product. Open shelves provide a generous selection of reference books, bibliographies, periodicals, and books reserved for class assignments. The building includes reading rooms, carrels, study areas in the stack sections, and microcomputer classroom/labs.
Special collections include historical physical education materials; cello music collections; the Randall Jarrell Collection; the Lois Lenski Collection; the Woman's Collection; collections devoted to history of dance, the book as an art form, and modern private presses; and a notable collection of rare books in several fields.
Jackson Library is a depository for the University archives and for material relating to the history of UNCG; it is also a selective depository for U.S. government documents, as well as a full depository for State documents. It also houses limited spoken-word and leisure-listening music record collections.
In addition to its own book collections, Jackson Library is able to borrow, by means of interlibrary loan material from other libraries for faculty, students and staff. Through a cooperative lending agreement with the other fifteen campuses of the University of North Carolina system, and with Duke University, faculty members and graduate students borrow books directly from the libraries of those institutions using a privilege card issued by the Circulation Department of Jackson Library.
All students cross-registered in the Greater Greensboro Consortium have direct lending access to the libraries of these institutions. Those not cross-registered may borrow directly from the other libraries for specific projects by application through the library at their home institution.
The University Libraries are dedicated to providing state-of-the-art information technology for use by its patrons. The Electronic CITI and Superlab in Jackson Library provide more than 150 machines for general-use computing by current UNCG faculty, staff, and students. Jackson Library also contains about 90 machines which provide access to the Library's catalog, as well as electronic databases and full text resources, and the Music Library has a number of computers as well. In addition, the first floor of Jackson Library is equipped for wireless Internet access.
