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The University of Alabama provides research library facilities and services to its faculty, students, staff, and other scholars and information users through a system of discipline- related libraries. Amelia Gayle Gorgas Library, serving the humanities, social sciences, and arts, is centrally located on the University Quadrangle. Three other units are located adjacent to their discipline-related teaching areas: Angelo Bruno Business Library, McLure Education Library, and Eric and Sarah Rodgers Library for Science and Engineering. The W. S. Hoole Special Collections Library is located on the second floor of Mary Harmon Bryant Hall. Under separate administration are the Health Sciences Library, located in the Educational Tower at DCH Regional Medical Center, and the Bounds Law Library, located in the Law Center.
The University's libraries are committed to providing service and access to information resources equally to all library users. Each of the libraries provides special accommodations for users with disabilities. In addition, two of the libraries have adaptive technologies workstations. Library services supporting distance education are available by telephone and through the University Libraries' Web site at http://www.lib.ua.edu. On campus the libraries offer library instruction classes designed to assist students and faculty with research and instruction.
The libraries combined hold more than two million cataloged items. In addition to books and microform materials, the collections include a broad selection of journals, newspapers, and other serial titles in paper and electronic format. The libraries serve as the regional depository for United States government publications.
The William Stanley Hoole Special Collections Library contains materials related to Alabama and the Deep South, rare editions, Confederate imprints, pamphlets, maps, archives of the University, and Alabama state publications. Various Congressional collections are deposited here. Hoole Library staff have begun digitizing key library collections to make them available to readers beyond the library's physical location. The libraries' catalog, e-journals, e-books, and a wide variety of databases may be accessed electronically in each of the libraries. These resources are available also via the University Libraries' Web site.
The University of Alabama has an academic membership in the Association of Research Libraries, a selective group of institutions emphasizing research and graduate instruction at the doctoral level and supporting large, comprehensive collections of library materials. The University's libraries also hold memberships in the Center for Research Libraries, the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries, the Southeastern Library Network, the Coalition for Networked Information, and the Network of Alabama Academic Libraries.
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