University of Central Florida Libraries | |
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Location | Central Florida, United States |
Type | Academic library |
Established | June 24, 1968 |
Branches | 11 |
Collection | |
Size | 2.2 million volumes 3.2 million microfilms 43,000 subscriptions 330,000 documents[1] |
Access and use | |
Circulation | 410,000 annually[2] |
Population served | 2 million annually[2] |
Members | 70,000+ (UCF students and faculty) |
Other information | |
Budget | $12.8 million [3] |
Director | Beau Case |
Employees | 110[4] |
Website | http://library.ucf.edu |
The University of Central Florida's Libraries is a university library system that is administered by the University of Central Florida, a metropolitan public research university located in Orlando, Florida, United States. The system, which stretches across Central Florida, includes eleven libraries of the university and provides primary support to all academic programs.[5]
The libraries serve UCF's students and faculty, and paid memberships are available to local residents. The system includes two branch libraries, seven regional campus libraries, in addition to the main library, the Harriet F. Ginsburg Health Sciences Library at the College of Medicine, Lake Nona and a research library at the Florida Solar Energy Center.[5] As is common in research libraries, library materials are housed in a variety of locations depending upon discipline. The current Director of Libraries is Barry Baker.[6]