Mission The mission of the Collection Management Department is to acquire materials in all formats in support of the research and instructional programs of the university. Library Subject Specialists (Collection Managers) with specialized subject knowledge are responsible for developing the collections to meet current and future needs of the university. These subject specialists assist faculty and students, either individually or in a classroom setting, in identifying course or research-related library materials, and they create subject guides in specific subject areas. Collections Together the Libraries hold over 4,000,000 catalogued volumes, 7,200,290 microforms, 1, 314,142 documents, 757,016 maps and images, and 13,361 computer datasets. 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 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 (Library West), Latin American art and architecture, (AFA and Smathers Library), national bibliographies (Library West, Reference), U.S. Census information, especially in electronic format (Library West, Documents), the rural sociology of Florida and tropical and subtropical agriculture collections (Marston Science Library), English and American Literature (Library West), and U.S. Documents (Library West, Documents). [ Home ] [ ABOUT ] [ For Staff ]
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