The University Library

(530) 752-6561; http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu

The General Library at UC Davis is one of the premier research libraries in North America. In addition to Peter J. Shields Library, there are four other General Library facilities: the Physical Sciences & Engineering Library, the Loren D. Carlson Health Sciences Library, the Agricultural and Resource Economics Library and the Blaisdell Medical Library in Sacramento. The combined collections of the various General Library facilities total more than 3.3 million volumes and more than 38,000 periodical and journal titles are received annually. An extensive variety of government documents, maps, microfilms and other formats are also part of the collection.

Shields Library houses the collections in the humanities, arts, social sciences, biological sciences, agricultural sciences, mathematics and computer science. The Physical Sciences & Engineering Library collections support teaching and research in engineering, chemistry, geology and physics. The Carlson Health Sciences Library serves the Schools of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine and programs in public health. The Blaisdell Medical Library at the UC Davis Medical Center provides a clinical collection of more than 44,000 volumes serving the hospital and clinics as well as the future School of Nursing. The law library, administered by the School of Law, is located in King Hall.

The General Library's HARVEST catalog identifies campus library resources, while the MELVYL online catalog identifies the library collections at UC Davis and the other nine UC campuses. The HARVEST catalog, MELVYL and other electronic resources, including more than 19,000 full-text journals can be searched in the libraries, at campus locations and remotely via the Internet. Workstations with Internet access are available for patron use in all library facilities. A wireless network in Shields Library, the Physical Sciences & Engineering Library, the Carlson Health Sciences Library and the Blaisdell Medical Library connects authorized laptop users to library and campus resources and services.

Information about library services, full text electronic books and journals, and important subject-specific Internet sites are available at the Library's Web site. The Library provides classes on the use of the HARVEST catalog, MELVYL and subject specific electronic journals and databases. Librarians are available for consultation to effectively and efficiently identify and use information resources for research projects and dissertations.