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Library Collections and Services

The University of libraries and collections consortia of libraries (PALCI, PALINET, and the provide an abundant amount of information and services to the Library Consortium), cooperative borrowing faculty, students, staff, administrators, and researchers of the arrangements have been developed with other Pennsylvania University. In fiscal year 2000, the University's collections institutions. Locations of University libraries and collections are surpassed 4.1 million volumes, had nearly 4.1 million pieces of as follows: microforms, had more than 24,000 print subscriptions and had more than 4,400 electronic journals. University Library System

The University Library System (ULS) includes the following ...... Schenley Drive at libraries and collections: Hillman (main), African-American, Buhl Hillman Library (main) ...... All floors (social work), East Asian, Special Collections, Government Documents, , , African-American Library ...... First Floor Center for American Music, Chemistry, Computer Science, Buhl Library ...... First Floor Darlington Memorial (American history), Engineering, Fine Arts, East Asian Library ...... Second Floor Information Sciences, Katz Graduate School of Business, Langley (biological sciences, behavioral neuroscience, Special Collections ...... Third Floor psychology), Mathematics, Music, Physics, and Public and Government Documents ...... Ground Floor International Affairs/Economics. ULS also maintains an off- campus book storage depository at the Allegheny Observatory Library Applied Research Center (UPARC)...... Allegheny Observatory, 159 Riverview Avenue The Hillman Library is the largest library facility with seating Archives Service Center ..... 400 North Lexington Avenue for 1,530 users. It offers an open stack arrangement and an Center for American Music extensive range of library services. In addition to the main ...... 4301 Forbes Avenue ( Memorial) collection, which is comprised primarily of humanities and social sciences subject areas, the Hillman Library is comprised of five Chemistry Library ...... 200 other libraries and collections, maps, national and international Computer Science Collection ...... 200 Eberly Hall newspapers, and microform facilities. Darlington Memorial Library .... 601 The Health Sciences Library System (HSLS) provides Engineering Library ...... 126 collections and services to meet the information needs of the Fine Arts Library ...... educational, clinical, and research programs of the Schools of Medicine, Dental Medicine, Pharmacy, Health and Rehabilitation Information Sciences Library ... 302 Information Sciences Bldg. Sciences, Nursing, and the Graduate School of Public Health, as Katz Graduate School of Business Library .. 130 well as the hospitals of the UPMC Health System. The HSLS includes Falk Library of the Health Sciences and the Western Langley Library ...... A-217 Langley Hall Psychiatric Institute and Clinic Library. The Computer and Media Mathematics Library ...... 430 Center (CMC) in Falk Library is the primary health sciences facility Music Library ...... B-30 Music Building and service point for audiovisual and microcomputer resources. HSL Online (http://www.hsls.pitt.edu) is the gateway to extensive Physics Library ...... 208 Engineering Hall electronic resources for clinical and research needs. Public and International Affairs/Economics Library ...... 1G12 Wesley W. Posvar Hall The other University libraries include the Barco Law Library, and those libraries located at each of the four regional campuses: Johnstown, Greensburg, Titusville, and Bradford. Health Sciences Library System

PITTCAT is the University of Pittsburgh's on-line library Falk Library of the Health Sciences ... Second Floor, Scaife Hall catalog, offering author, title, subject, and keyword access to materials in all University libraries. PITTCAT currently contains Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic (WPIC) Library bibliographic holdings and circulation information for more than ...... 220 Thomas Detre Hall of the WPIC four million titles, representing most of the book and periodical collections in all University libraries. In addition, the University’s libraries provide access to many remote resources for Barco Law Library ...... 400 Law School Building University of Pittsburgh faculty, students, and staff, including: Encyclopedia Britannica, netLibrary, EBSCOhost, IAC SearchBank, CIS Compass, Web of Science, MUSE, JSTOR, Regional Campus Libraries Science Direct and numerous other electronic journals. PITTCAT and other databases are available through the ULS Owen Library ...... Johnstown Campus website at http://www.library.pitt.edu. Millstein Library ...... Greensburg Campus The University of Pittsburgh is a member of the Association Haskell Memorial Library ...... Titusville Campus of Research Libraries. Through membership in several Hanley Library ...... Bradford Campus