Libraries are crucial to both study and research. The University -Library on the UCLA campus is one of the country's largest and most -renowned academic libraries and consists of the University Research -Library, the College Library, and 11 specialized subject libraries. Collectively they contain more than six million volumes and extensive holdings of government publications, pamphlets, manuscripts, maps, microforms, -music scores, recordings, photographs, and slides. They regularly re--ceive over 94,000 serial publications.
ORION, the library's on-line information system, provides location and holdings information for most library materials and current information for materials on order or in processing. On-line circulation status information for materials in most libraries is also available. ORION public access terminals are located in many campus libraries, and demonstrations and workshops in using the system are available at the beginning of each term.
Students have access to the stacks in most libraries. A handbook describing the organization, services, and hours of the University libraries is available at all campus libraries.
The Reprographic Service, housed in 2081 Engineering I, can duplicate books, periodicals, manuscripts, and maps.
The University Research Library on north campus is a modern six-story building designed primarily as a graduate research library serving the social sciences, humanities, and several professional schools. The building houses over three million volumes arranged in open stacks, as well as the Reference Room, Circulation Department, Graduate Reserve Service, and Periodicals Room. The Microform and Media Service, with some 1,110,000 microcopies of newspapers, books, and periodicals, has a variety of reading and copying equipment. During academic sessions library hours are weekdays 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. (6 p.m. Friday), Saturday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday 1 to 10 p.m.
The Department of Special Collections in the University Research Library contains rare books and pamphlets, the University Archives, early maps, and files of early California newspapers. Manuscript collections include the literary papers of Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin, as well as the private papers of Jack Benny, Charles Laughton, Carey McWilliams, King Vidor, and Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, a UCLA alumnus. Other significant holdings include the Sadleir Collection of nineteenth-century fiction, generally regarded as the finest of its kind, and the Ahmanson-Murphy Collection of Early Italian Printing (1471-1550), with a concentration on Aldine imprints. The department also includes UCLA's Oral History Program, a national leader in the field with over 400 interviews with prominent individuals since the program was founded in 1959.
The Bruman Maps and Government Information Library (MGI), also housed in the University Research Library, collects official publications of the U.S. government, the State of California, California counties and cities, selected U.S. state and local governments, foreign nations and selected foreign states and provinces, the United Nations and some of its specialized agencies, and a number of other international organizations. MGI has current English-language, nongovernmental pamphlets on public affairs representing a wide spectrum of political and social opinion, with strong emphasis on social welfare, economic, social, and political conditions, and industrial relations. It also has maps, city plans, nautical charts, and technical books and serials on all aspects of cartography.
The College Library is designed to meet the instructional and informational needs of most undergraduate students. It is permanently located in the Powell Library Building but is housed in a temporary structure -- commonly known as "Towell" -- while Powell undergoes seismic renovation. Towell is located at the foot of Janss Steps between the Dance Building and the Men's Gym and houses 200,000 books and periodicals; course reserve materials, including audiocassettes, lecture notes, past examinations, and APS (Academic Publishing Service) readings available for loan; and the Humanities Computing Laboratory with 36 IBM PS/2s, Macintoshes, and printers. During academic sessions library hours are weekdays 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. (6 p.m. Friday), Saturday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday 1 to 10 p.m.
The resources of the specialized campus libraries are devoted mainly to subjects of concern to the departments or professional schools which they serve, but their materials are available to all UCLA students and faculty. A recorded message (310-825-8301) provides current hours of service for each library.
The Arts Library in Dickson Art Center houses material on art, art history, design, film, television, theater, and architecture. The Belt Library of Vinciana is also located in Dickson Art Center. Arts Special Collections, located in the University Research Library, contain noncirculating materials, including the Princeton Index of Christian Art, the Artists' File, and other special collections such as unpublished radio, film, and television scripts and archival records of major Southern California motion picture studios.
The Louise Darling Biomedical Library, in the Center for the Health Sciences, is one of the finest libraries of its kind in the country. Its 500,000 volumes and nearly 6,000 serial subscriptions serve all the UCLA health and life sciences departments/schools and the UCLA Medical Center.
Materials in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are available in the Rudolph East Asian Library, and the Hugh and Hazel Darling Law Library has a substantial collection of over 400,000 volumes selected to further the course of instruction in the School of Law and the legal research needs of the UCLA community. The Rosenfeld Management Library serves the John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management and the various subjects related to business and management.
The Rubsamen Music Library houses historical musicology and ethnomusicology materials, musical scores, recordings, and the personal collections of such composers as Henry Mancini, Alex North, and Ernst Toch. Music Special Collections contain sheet music, anthologies, arrangements for band and orchestra, sound recordings, and manuscripts.
The Science and Engineering Library (SEL) covers the fields of engineering, mathematics, and the physical sciences. The SEL collections are housed in four separate locations. SEL/Chemistry includes material on chemistry, biochemistry, and molecular biology; materials for engineering, astronomy, computer science, meteorology, and mathematics are kept in SEL/Engineering and Mathematical Science; major subjects covered by SEL/Geology-Geophysics include geoscience, invertebrate paleontology, planetary and space science, and hydrology; and SEL/Physics covers all aspects of that science, including acoustics and spectroscopy.
In addition to the extensive collections of the University Library, a rich array of other information resources is available to the UCLA community. The archives and collections listed below are independently managed by individual UCLA departments and centers.
The American Indian Studies Center Library houses a collection on American Indian life, culture, and state of affairs in historical and contemporary perspectives, while the Asian American Studies Center Reading Room features Asian Pacific American resources. The Center for African American Studies Library contains materials reflecting the African American experience in the social sciences, arts, and humanities.
Materials related to Chicano and Latino cultures are housed in the Chicano Studies Research Center Library, and the Clark Memorial Library contains rare books, manuscripts, and other noncirculating materials on English culture (1640-1750). The English Reading Room features a noncirculating collection of English and American literature.
The Ethnomusicology Archive houses sound recordings of folk, ethnic, and non-Western classical music, while the Institute for Social Science Research Data Archive Library contains a collection of statistical databases for the social sciences. The Seeds University Elementary School Library features contemporary materials for children from kindergarten through junior high school and adult works on children's literature.
The UCLA Film and Television Archive is the world's largest university-based collection of motion pictures and broadcast programming. The archive's holdings of original film and television materials serve both the UCLA community and national and international constituencies.
The Motion Picture Collection, with more than 37,000 films, is the country's largest collection after the Library of Congress. Among its outstanding collections are 27 million feet of Hearst Metrotone News film dating back to 1919. Other noteworthy holdings include studio print libraries from Twentieth Century-Fox, Paramount Pictures, Warner Brothers, Columbia Studios, New World Pictures, Universal Studios, and Orion. Special collections document the careers of William Wyler, Hal Ashby, Tony Curtis, Rosalind Russell, Stanley Kramer, Cecil B. DeMille, Harold Lloyd, and other persons of prominence in the American film industry.
The Television Collection is the nation's largest university-based collection of television broadcast materials. Its 35,000 titles include kinescopes, telefilms, and videotapes spanning television history from 1946 to the present, with emphasis on drama, comedy, and variety programming. A special collection of over 100,000 news and public affairs programs is also maintained.
The archive's exhibition program presents evening screenings and discussions in Melnitz Theater which focus on archival materials, new work by independent filmmakers, and a wide array of international films. For program information, call (310) 206-FILM.
The Archive Research and Study Center (ARSC), located in 46 Powell Library (310-206-5388), provides on-site viewing of the Film and Television Archive's collections and research consultation to students, faculty, and researchers. ARSC hours are weekdays 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Extended viewing hours are available at the Instructional Media Laboratory.
A tour of all the UCLA museums and art galleries will take you from the corner of Wilshire and Westwood Boulevards to the northeast corner of the campus. UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center regularly presents selections from the Armand Hammer Collection, which features Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings by such artists as Monet, Pissarro, Sargent, Cassatt, and Van Gogh. Related paintings by Constable, Picasso, and others from UCLA's collection are also on view. The museum also organizes and presents major changing exhibitions devoted to examinations of historical and contemporary art in all periods. Extensive cultural programming, including children's performance and storytelling series, music, poetry readings, and "Dialogues on Art," are presented on Saturdays and Sundays, and Thursday evenings. The museum is open Tuesday through Saturday 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. (Thursday to 9 p.m.), Sunday 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., closed Mondays, July 4, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. Admission is $4.50 for adults; $3 for seniors 65 and over, non-UCLA students, and UCLA faculty and staff; $1 for UCLA students; children 17 and under are admitted free. Admission is free on Thursday from 6 to 9 p.m. For information on programming and docent tours, call (310) 443-7000.
On the gallery level of the Armand Hammer Museum is the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, which houses a distinguished collection of over 45,000 prints, drawings, and photographs, including over 10,000 works from the prestigious Armand Hammer Daumier and Contemporaries Collection. Maintained as a study and research facility for the benefit of students and the community, the center's permanent holdings include significant European and American examples from the fifteenth century to the present. It is particularly noted for its collection of German expressionist prints and works on paper by Matisse and Picasso, as well as the Richard Vogler Cruikshank collection and the Frank Lloyd Wright collection of Japanese prints. The center is open by appointment Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (310-443-7076).
The Wight Art Building, located in the Dickson Art Center on north campus, includes exhibition space of 6,000 square feet in which to mount campus exhibitions and student-organized programs and exhibits. For a schedule of exhibitions, call (310) 206-6467.
The Murphy Sculpture Garden, located between Bunche Hall and the Wight Art Building, contains a collection of over 70 major works by Rodin, Matisse, Calder, Lachaise, Lipchitz, Moore, Miro, Hepworth, and many other late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century masters. All works in this distinguished collection, situated on a picturesque five-acre expanse, are private gifts to the University. For information on docent tours, call UCLA at the Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center at (310) 443-7000.
The Fowler Museum of Cultural History is internationally known for the quality of its collections and exhibits. Its collections encompass the arts and material culture of much of the world, with particular emphasis on West and Central Africa, Oceania, and Latin America. The museum offers assistance with instruction and research and sponsors major exhibitions, lecture programs, and symposia. Administrative offices are located in 1586 Fowler Building (310-825-4361).
The Office of Academic Computing (OAC) provides microcomputer and workstation support services through its Microcomputer Support Office (MSO), campus backbone network services through its Campus Network Services (CNS) group, and supercomputer services through its Computing Services group. OAC offers a broad range of services, including an IBM ES/9000 Model 900 supercomputer with vector facilities; IBM SP/2 high-performance parallel processing complex, including a cluster of RS/6000 workstations; public computing facilities; instruction in the use of computer hardware and software through free noncredit classes; professional consulting services; user documentation and Perspective, a quarterly journal; assistance to departments in the selection of microcomputer and workstation hardware and software; and computing assistance to faculty, staff, and students with disabilities.
The Microcomputer Support Office, located in 5308A Math Sciences (310-825-7408), provides services enabling departmental computer support coordinators to provide assistance to faculty and students on the use of microcomputers and advanced workstations, as well as special services in computing for faculty, students, and staff with disabilities. MSO services are intended to support the integration of microcomputers and advanced workstations into administrative, instructional, and research programs as well as individual microcomputer acquisition and use. MSO supports local area networks and their connection to the campus backbone network and coordinates campuswide software licenses, user groups, and an electronic newsletter. Most services are available through the Microcomputer Information Center (MIC).
OAC's IBM ES/9000 runs the MVS/ESA operating system and is available to all colleges, schools, and departments within UCLA, as well as to all registered students. OAC maintains a large library of applications software, including statistical, language, and graphics packages. The ES/9000 with its vector facilities and the SP/2 complex are particularly appropriate for numerically intensive computing and data management tasks. In the numerically intensive computing area, OAC provides a code clinic with professional consultants to analyze and improve the efficiency of specialized code in numerically intensive computing applications. In the visualization area, OAC consultants work with users in producing high-quality graphic output necessary for research in many scientific disciplines. OAC is connected to the campus backbone network, enabling access to its services wherever there is a connection to the network. These services include access to ORION, the UCLA on-line library information system; use of BEN, an electronic communication system; and access to the Internet. Information on how to apply for an account to use any of OAC's services is available in the OAC User Relations Office (4302 Math Sciences, 310-825-7548) weekdays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The Division of Laboratory Animal Medicine, located in 1V-211 CHS (310-825-7281), is responsible for the procurement, husbandry, and general welfare of animals required for teaching and investigative services. It also administers the veterinary medical and husbandry programs throughout the campus.
The University of California Natural Reserve System offers 26 reserves statewide to be used for field studies in unspoiled natural sites and for protected scientific experiments. For more information, contact Robert M. Gibson, 2203 Life Sciences (310-825-6459).
The Biological Collections of the Biology Department include marine fishes from the Eastern Pacific and Gulf of California, and birds and mammals primarily from the Western U.S., Mexico, and Central America. The department also maintains a more limited collection of amphibians, reptiles, and fossil vertebrates. For more information, contact Jaap Hillenius, A339 Life Sciences (310-825-1282), or Donald Buth, 1335 Life Sciences (310-206-6084).
Although the UCLA campus as a whole has an attractive, park-like atmosphere, there are two distinctive garden areas worthy of special note. The eight-acre Mathias Botanical Garden, located in the southeast corner of campus, contains some 4,000 species of native and exotic plants. It is used for botanical teaching and research. This peaceful wooded area, a center for testing the usefulness of woody subtropical plants, is a favorite spot for quiet strolls. The botanical garden also has a research Herbarium containing 180,000 dried plant specimens. The administrative office is located in 124 Botany (310-825-3620).
The Hannah Carter Japanese Garden in nearby Bel Air, designed and constructed by Japanese artisans and architects using native plants and artifacts, is an authentic Kyoto-style garden. The terraced two-acre garden contains such traditional and symbolic features as a teahouse, shrine, antique stone water basins, lanterns, waterfalls, and a pond with Japanese carp (koi) swimming among water lilies. The garden, a private gift to UCLA, is used by faculty and students for study and research, by departments for professional events, and by others seeking a serene setting for meditation and solitude. It is open to groups and individuals by reservation only. Call the Visitors Center at (310) 206-8147.