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Welcome to The Libraries
Be Kind to Books
Books and other resources are often damaged through heavy use. The Library
has a program for repairing materials to make them available to students and
faculty as long as possible. Everyone who uses the Libraries can help to
extend the life of library collections by following a few guidelines:
• Protect borrowed materials from rain
• Handle hooks carefully, especially when photocopying
• Notify library staff if a book needs repair
• Return books to the Circulation Desk rather than a book drop when
ever possible
• Eat snacks and meals outside the library
For more information about the care of collections, contact the Preservation
Librarian, Andrew Hart, by email (isharrtfemail.unc.cdu) or phone 962-8047.
Government Documents
metaiah.unc.edu/ref erenc. e/doc.s/
The Documents Section of the Davis Library Reference
Department holds documents in print, microform, and elec
tronic formats from the U.S. government and from interna
tional organizations such as the United Nations and the
International Monetary Fund. The collection also holds
selected materials from the fifty states of the U.S.
The Electronic Documents area near the Reference Desk con
tains public computers tor searching U.S., international, and
state documents on CD-ROM and disk. Internet sites for
state, international, and U.S. government documents are eas-
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U.S. government documents from 1976 on will be integrated
into the Libraries' Online Catalog this year. Major indexes to
government publications, including GPO Monthly Catalog,
Congressional Universe, and Statistical Universe, are available
from the Libraries’ Electronic Indexes and Databases page
(eresources.lih.unc.edu/eid/).
Help is available for any of these resources at the Davis
Reference Desk, by phone (962-1151), or hy email
(govdiK.'.J.n isfSretstaft.lih.unc.edu).
The Microforms Collection in Davis Library (962-2094) includes
more than one million items on microfilm, microfiche, microcard,
and microprint. Readers and printers for all of the material are avail
able in the Collection’s reading room. Staff is available to help you
locate materials and use the equipment during most hours that Davis
Library is open. Particular strengths of the Collection include:
Ohr-Campbell, Liza Terll
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Photographer; Fred Stipe
Graphic Designer Sheila Lenahan
Thanks to: Chrissy Beck, Miguel Jackson,
Penny Persons, Margaretta Yarborough
Concept courtesy of New York University Libraries
Nonprint Materials
Located at the hack of the Undergraduate Library is the
Nonprint Collection (962-2559). Its audio and video
tapes, DVDs, 16mm films, laser discs, compact discs,
slides, records, and equipment serve more than 2,500
classes each year. Individual carrels are available for lis
tening and viewing materials in the Library; many items
may he checked out for three days. Most nonprint mate
rials are in the Libraries’ catalog, with printed lists avail
able for browsing in the Nonprint Collection. Staff can
answer reference questions on films and videos, handle
routine repairs, and provide an array of film catalogs from
which films may be ordered for classroom use.
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Serials
Reading Room
www. lib. unc. edu/serials/
Need to read a French newspaper? How
about a journal article in Portuguese,
Russian, Italian, Arabic, or Chinese? We
can help. The Serials Reading Room,
located to the right as you enter Davis
Library, contains journals and newspapers
from all over the world. In fact, our collec
tion of East Asian materials is so large an
entire wall is devoted to it. A wide range of
subjects is represented by titles such as
American Cinematographer, Black Scholar,
Farm Bureau News, and Business North
Carolina. We subscribe to about 17,000
serials, with some 6,000 shelved in the
Reading Room. The rest are sent to other
campus libraries.
The Serials Desk is staffed seven days a
week. For serials information call 962-1067
(9 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday-Friday) or Davis
Reference, 962-1151.
• Back runs of many U.S. and foreign newspapers, including the
New York Times, London Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington
Post, Pravda, and La Prensa
• A wide variety of books, pamphlets, archival collections, maga
zines, scholarly journals, and photographs
• ERIC microfiche collection of educational materials
• Hundreds of early American periodicals
• Most UNC-CH dissertations since 1958.
Copies of this publication can be obtained from the
office of the Associate Provost for University Libraries,
Davis Library, CB #3900, UNC-CH 27514-8890 (tel.
(919) 962-1301).
Thirty thousand copies of this publication were printed
at a cost of 17 cents each.