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Although
the holdings of the libraries at the University of Florida constitute the
largest library in the state, it is often necessary to go beyond the libraries'
resources to support the research of our faculty and students. To
facilitate access to resources not held at UF, the UF libraries have joined
with other institutions in a number of consortia that have developed special
programs to share resources. UF receives many benefits through these
agreements; primary among them is, of course, access to highly specialized
resources owned by other institutions. But they also allow us to
influence national legislation in areas important to scholars such as copyright
and contract law and to save money and time on cataloging library materials
through shared databases. They allow us to build national and international
collections of rarely used scholarly materials like foreign dissertations
and newspapers which can be borrowed for lengthy time periods for local
scholarly use. They allow us to receive grants for preserving our
unique library resources and to send staff to training events at affordable
prices. Our participation in these organizations greatly improves
the quality of library service for UF faculty and students.
Many materials that are
not held at UF can be quickly located and borrowed through one of these
cooperative programs. Consult with a reference librarian to take
advantage of these services. Publications describing specialized services
are available at reference and circulation desks throughout the libraries.
Among the programs in which we participate are:
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CRL - Center
for Research Libraries, UF's branch library in Chicago, is a five million
volume collection of rarely held research materials specializing in area
studies--Latin America, Africa, and Asia. But there are many other
strong collections too. It holds the largest collection in the world
of international dissertations including those of most European universities.
The most comprehensive file of US college catalogs resides at the center,
which also has very strong holdings in science publications from the USSR
and Russia. It has the strongest collection of pre-1950 US state
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