SUPPORTING RESOURCES
As UCLA students and scholars advance knowledge, illuminate the past, shape the present, and uncover the future, they rely on resources that support their endeavors in all fields. From a top-rated library to outdoor nature reserves, the campus is well-equipped to meet diverse scholastic needs.
The leading arts and cultural center in the West, UCLA museums, galleries, and gardens provide eclectic resources ranging from the ancient to the avant-garde.
Fowler Museum of Cultural History
The Fowler Museum of Cultural History is internationally known for the quality of its collections, which encompass the arts and material culture of much of the world, with particular emphasis on West and Central Africa, Oceania, and Latin America. It supports UCLA instruction and research and sponsors major exhibitions, lecture programs, and symposia. The museum is open to the public Wednesday through Sunday. For more information on hours and admission, see http://www.fmch.ucla.edu. 
310-825-4361
Grunewald Center for the Graphic Arts
Housed in the UCLA Hammer Museum, the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts holds a distinguished collection of over 45,000 prints, drawings, and photographs, including nearly 10,000 works from the prestigious Armand Hammer Daumier and Contemporaries Collection. 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 only by appointment. 310-443-7078
Situated on a picturesque five-acre expanse that spans the heart of north campus, the Murphy Sculpture Garden
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 are private gifts to the University. Tours may be arranged. 310-443-7000
The UCLA Hammer Museum regularly presents its collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings by such artists as Monet, Pissarro, Sargent, Cassatt, and Van Gogh. The museum organizes and presents major changing exhibitions devoted to examinations of historical and contemporary art in all periods. Cultural programming, including children's performance and storytelling series, music, poetry readings, and "Dialogues on Art," are presented throughout the week. For information on programming, hours, and docent tours, see http://www.hammer.ucla.edu. 310-443-7000
The Wight Art Building, located in the Dickson Art Center on north campus, includes exhibition space of 6,000 square feet dedicated to campus exhibitions and student-organized programs. 310-206-6467
The UCLA Library, a campuswide network of libraries serving programs of study and research in many fields, is among the top ten ranked research libraries in the U.S. The total collections number more than 7.4 million volumes, and more than 90,000 serial titles are received regularly.
Reference librarians are available in all library units to answer questions about using online systems and to provide assistance with reference and research topics.
Students locate and identify materials through the library's web-based online information systems. ORION2 contains records for all UCLA Library holdings and other campus collections, including the Research and Study Center of the Film and Television Archive, Chicano Studies Research Center Library, Ethnomusicology Archive, Institute for Social Science Research Data Archives Library, and Instructional Media Library. ORION2 also provides library item location and circulation status.
The California Digital Library, a library for the entire University of California system, provides access to the Melvyl Catalog, the California Periodicals Database, numerous abstracting and indexing databases, and gateways to other systems. The Melvyl Catalog contains information on library holdings at all nine UC campuses.
While continuing to develop and manage collections of traditional printed materials, the UCLA Library also makes a number of digital resources available for campus use through the library site. These include College Library electronic reserves and electronic journals, texts, reference resources, periodical indexes and abstracts. See http://www.library.ucla.edu.
Housed in the Dickson Art Center, the Arts Library collects material on architecture, art history, design, film, television, history of architecture, photography as fine art, studio art, and theater. It also contains the Elmer Belt Library of Vinciana, a special collection of rare books and incunabula about Leonardo da Vinci and related materials in Renaissance studies. Arts Special Collections, housed in the Young Research Library, contain noncirculating materials, including the Princeton Index of Christian Art, Artists' File, archival records of major Southern California motion picture studios and television production companies, scripts from film, television, and radio, animation art, personal papers of writers, directors, and producers, photographs and production stills, posters, lobby cards, press kits, and West Coast theater playbills. See http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/arts.
Charles E. Young Research Library
The Young Research Library primarily serves graduate research in the humanities, social sciences, education, public policy, and urban planning. Most of its collections are arranged in open stacks. The building also houses reference, circulation, graduate reserve, and periodicals services and the Microform and Media Service, with microcopies of newspapers, periodicals, and other materials. The Department of Special Collections contains rare books and pamphlets, primarily in the humanities and social sciences, from the fifteenth to twentieth century, university archives, early maps and atlases, early California newspapers, manuscript collections, transcripts of oral history, ephemera, microfilm, tape recordings, prints, paintings, and drawings, including original architectural drawings. See http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/url.
The College Library, located in the Powell Library Building, features collections and services in support of the undergraduate curriculum in the humanities, social and physical sciences, and mathematics. Course reserve materials, including books, articles, audiotapes, homework solutions, lecture notes, and Academic Publishing Service Readers, are available for loan. The College Library Instructional Computing Commons, located on the first floor of Powell Library, provides students with access to computers and multimedia equipment, and Night Powell provides study space in a late-night reading room. See http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college.
Eugene and Maxine Rosenfeld Management Library
Located in the John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management complex, the Management Library houses materials on accounting information systems, arts management, business history, corporate history, entrepreneurship, finance, general management and management theory, industrial relations, international and comparative management, management information systems, management strategy and policy, marketing, operations, research, production and operations management, public/not-for-profit management, and real estate. See http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/resources/library.
Hugh and Hazel Darling Law Library
The Law Library collects published case decisions, statutes, and codes of the federal and state governments of the U.S. and other Common Law jurisdictions, legal treatises and periodicals in Anglo-American and international law, and appropriate foreign and comparative law holdings. The Law Library reports to the dean of the School of Law. See http://www.law.ucla.edu/Library.
Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library
The Biomedical Library, located in the Center for the Health Sciences, serves all the UCLA health and sciences departments and schools and the UCLA Medical Center. Its collections focus on materials related to medicine, nursing, dentistry, public health, physiological sciences, biology, molecular biology, biochemistry, zoology, plant sciences, psychology, and life sciences, as well as rare works in the history of health and life sciences, botanical illustration, and Arabic and Persian medical manuscripts. See http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/biomed.
The collections of the Music Library in the Schoenberg Music Building include books, music scores, sound recordings, microforms, and interactive media on Western music history and criticism; world music styles, cultures, and traditions; and music theory, aesthetics, philosophy, and organology. Music Special Collections include rare printed and manuscript books, scores, and opera librettos; personal papers of prominent Southern California composers, performers, and writers on music; and archives of film, television, and radio music; it also houses the Archive of Popular American Music, a special collection of published and manuscript sheet music, recordings, and related materials. See http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/music.
Richard C. Rudolph East Asian Library
Located in the Young Research Library, the East Asian Library collects Chinese, Japanese, and Korean vernacular-language materials in the humanities and social sciences. The collection is particularly strong in Japanese Buddhism, religion, Chinese and Japanese fine arts, Chinese archaeology, premodern history and classical literature on both China and Japan, and Korean literature and religion. See http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/eastasian.
Science and Engineering Library
The Science and Engineering Library (SEL) collections on engineering, mathematics, and the physical sciences are housed in four separate locations. SEL/Chemistry, in Young Hall, houses materials on chemistry, biochemistry, and molecular biology. SEL/Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, in Boelter Hall, houses materials on aeronautics, astronomy, atmospheric sciences, bioengineering, chemical, civil, electrical, environmental, manufacturing, mechanical, and nuclear engineering, computer science, electronics, energy technology, mathematics, metals and materials, and pollution. SEL/Geology-Geophysics, in the Geology Building, houses materials on geology, geophysics, geochemistry, space physics, planetary science, paleobiology, micropaleontology, invertebrate paleontology, ore deposits, geomorphology, hydrology, and chemical oceanography. SEL/Physics, in Kinsey Hall, houses materials on solid-state, elementary particle, high-energy, mathematical, nuclear, and plasma physics, acoustics, spectroscopy, optics, and astrophysics. See http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/sel.
Special Archives and Collections
In addition to the extensive collections of the University Library, a rich array of other information resources are independently managed by individual UCLA departments and centers.
The Center for African American Studies Library contains materials reflecting the African American experience in the social sciences, arts, and humanities. 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 and Pacific American resources.
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 to 1750). The English Reading Room features a noncirculating collection of English and American literature, literary history, and criticism.
The Instructional Media Library, located in Powell Library, is UCLA's central resource for the collection and maintenance of educational and instructional media. Materials from the collection are loaned to regularly scheduled UCLA classes and may be rented by organizations and individuals from the campus community and beyond. The library monitors compliance with University guidelines and federal copyright law governing the use of video recordings. Reference books from educational and feature film distributors are available. The staff assists in researching media on any subject and obtaining materials from outside sources. See http://www.oid.ucla.edu/Imlib.
310-825-0755
The Instructional Media Laboratory provides access to course- or textbook-related audio, interactive, and videotape programs. Students, assigned by faculty to study specific supplementary materials, may learn at their own pace and time. See http://www.oid.ucla.edu/Imlab. 310-206-1211
UCLA Film and Television Archive
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 that focus on archival materials, new work by independent filmmakers, and an array of international films. See http://www.cinema.ucla.edu. 310-206-FILM
The Archive Research and Study Center (ARSC), provides on-site viewing of the Film and Television Archive's collections and research consultation to students, faculty, and researchers. 310-206-5388
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 exciting pace of computer technology demands an environment where information systems are recognized as a strategic requirement with a strong focus of attention, and where there is a solid technology foundation already in place. UCLA provides that environment and ensures hardware, software, and training to support research and study.
Academic Technology Services
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provides resources and services that support the UCLA distributed computing environment. Through its five service areas ATS seeks to facilitate cross-departmental information technology initiatives, provide specialized resources to faculty and students in pursuit of their research and instructional goals, and leverage the volume purchasing power of the University. See http://www.ats.ucla.edu. 310-825-6635
Training and consulting services include classes in statistical applications, high-performance computing, and scientific visualization. See http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/training.htm. 310-825-7431
Access to over 300 online training courses in topics ranging from basic word processing to programming and local area network management is also available. See http://computertraining.ucla.edu.
Through Software Central, ATS informs the UCLA community of software available at educational or special volume discounts and provides technical support for many applications. See http://www.ats.ucla.edu/software. 310-206-4780
Advanced Technologies offers integrated services to faculty. Areas of expertise include technical and administrative grant development support; storage and management tools for research and instructional data; analysis and interpretation of complex data sets through statistical and visualization support; high-performance network consulting services for research; and high-performance computing through UCLA's SP/Cluster Program, consulting support for faculty to access the National Supercomputer Centers, and support for the development of central and local commodity-based Linux clusters. See http://www.ats.ucla.edu/at. 310-825-7426
Disabilities and Computing Program
The Disabilities and Computing Program (DCP) provides adaptive technology services and support to students, faculty, and staff with disabilities, to faculty who are working with students with disabilities, and to departments. The DCP also coordinates access to computers, local area networks, and online resources for people with disabilities. See http://www.dcp.ucla.edu. 310-206-7133
Student laboratories are supported through the ATS Commons Laboratory and the College Library Instructional Computing Commons. See Student Services later in this chapter for information.
Parks, Reserves, and Natural Science Resources
The geography of Southern California is conducive to research in the natural sciences. The diverse region is a natural laboratory supported by numerous UCLA resources for study.
The Biological Collections of the Organismic Biology, Ecology, and Evolution Department include marine fishes from the Eastern Pacific and Gulf of California, and birds and mammals primarily from the Western U.S., Canada, Mexico, and Central America. The department also maintains a more limited collection of amphibians, reptiles, and fossil vertebrates. See http://www.obee.ucla.edu.dickey. 310-206-6084
Division of Laboratory Animal Medicine
The Division of Laboratory Animal Medicine 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. See http://www.dlam.ucla.edu. 310-825-7281
One mile from the UCLA campus in Bel Air, the Japanese Garden provides a unique illustration of art and nature for courses such as landscape architecture, environmental design, East Asian studies, and art classes. The Kyoto-style terraced garden was designed by Japanese artisans using native plants and artifacts. Traditional features such as a teahouse, shrine, antique stone water basins, and a koi pond are enjoyed by faculty, students, school and community groups, and others. Visits are by reservation only. See http://www.japanesegarden.ucla.edu. 310-825-4574
The Marine Science Center coordinates marine-related teaching and research on campus and facilitates interdepartmental interaction of faculty and students. UCLA offers one of the broadest interdisciplinary educational programs in marine sciences in the U.S. Field trips for marine-related courses and access to research sites in the Santa Monica Bay, Channel Islands, and the Southern California Bight are provided by UCLA's 68-foot research vessel
Sea World UCLA
. See http://www.msc.ucla.edu. 310-206-8247
The Mathias Botanical Garden is a living museum with one of the most important botanical collections in the United States. With specimens from all over the world, the seven-acre expanse on south campus specializes in tropical and subtropical plants, including some 5,000 species in 225 families. The botanical garden also has a research herbarium containing 180,000 dried plant specimens. School and community group tours are available as are individual guided tours. See http://www.botgard.ucla.edu. 310-825-1260
Stunt Ranch Santa Monica
Mountains Reserve
The University of California founded the UC Natural Reserve System (NRS) in 1965 to preserve undisturbed natural areas representing the state's vast ecological diversity for students, teachers, and researchers from public and private educational institutions to use as outdoor classrooms and living laboratories. The Stunt Ranch Santa Monica Mountains Reserve, administered by the Los Angeles campus, officially joined the UC NRS in November 1995. The 310-acre site is a 40-minute drive from UCLA and includes fine examples of chaparral and oak woodland ecosystems. The reserve lends itself to programs that focus on the natural ecosystems and issues of resource management in the urban/wildland interface. Undergraduate and graduate courses in the departments of Anthropology, Earth and Space Sciences, Geography, Organismic Biology, Ecology, and Evolution, and Physics and Astronomy, and the Institute of the Environment utilize Stunt Ranch and other NRS sites. See http://nrs.ucop.edu/reserves/Stunt.html. 310-206-3887
The UCLA Ocean Discovery Center at the Santa Monica Pier is a marine science learning center serving K-12 classes from schools in the greater Los Angeles area. Interactive lessons and activities introduce students to the basic concepts of marine environmental studies, marine biology, oceanography, and meteorology. The center is also open to the public, using the same conceptual approach to teach visitors about their connections to Santa Monica Bay and the world ocean. See http://www.odc.ucla.edu. 310-393-6149
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