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The Undergraduate Library focuses on the resources most frequently used by undergraduate students. The library also offers instruction sessions. Along with an extensive periodical collection, the Undergraduate Library also houses the Media and Reserves Center and Writer's Workshop. The library is located at 1402 West Gregory, directly across from the Main Library and its website is located at http://www.library.illinois.edu/ugl/ and the virtual tour is located at http://www.library.illinois.edu/ugl/about/tour.html.
Need help writing your paper?
The Writers' Workshop, part of the Center for Writing Studies, provides free writing assistance for University of Illinois students, faculty, and staff from all disciplines and at all stages of the writing process. Discuss your writing with consultants who are experienced writers and teachers of writing. Call 217-333-8796 (or drop-in) to set up a 50-minute session at one of the four Workshop locations. Please see the appointments and schedule pages for more information. Writers' Workshop is located on the first floor of the Undergraduate Library.
The Undergraduate Library's media collection includes videos, video games and equipment as well as digital cameras and laptops. You can check out the list of games and consoles. The media collection circulates to all patron types for a One Week loan. Late fees of $1 per day/per item are assessed. Media materials must be picked up and returned in person at the Undergraduate Library Information Services desk. For more information, please visit the Media Collection.
Major reference materials, mostly in the arts and humanities. Services include:
You can get help in-person, by email, phone, or via online chat through our Ask a Librarian service. The Reference, Research and government Information Services Desk is located on the second floor of the Main Library.
Location: Reading Room (Main Library, 2nd Floor, Room 200D)
Time: Monday-Friday 1:00-4:00pm
Enhance and expand your research and teaching with data
Need help finding or downloading statistical and spatial data? Stop by the Data Services Office Hours in the University Library. Dawn Owens-Nicholson (Data Archivist, ATLAS) and librarians with a wide range of expertise will be available to help you locate relevant data sets in opinion polls, election studies, social surveys, census, education, and health data and prepare them for analysis in SPSS, SAS, STATA and ArcGIS.
The library's homepage serves as your gateway to research. Online resources include the online library catalog, the online research resources page (database of online journals and resources), the websites for departmental libraries, Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery, and a host of library initiatives including Illinois Harvest and IDEALS, the library's online depository.
Central Access Services and the Main Stacks houses over six million volumes of the general University of Illinois collection. University graduate students, faculty, and staff have access to the main stacks, while undergraduates and all others may request items for retrieval. There are public access computers, photocopiers, and a change machine located near the circulation desk. Central Access Services is located on the second floor in Room 203.
If we don't have it, we can get it! Interlibrary Loan & Document Delivery assists library users in locating and receiving materials unavailable at University of Illinois. If you have any questions or need to pick up your book, please visit the Central Access Services on the second floor in Room 203.
Newspapers galore! The History, Philosophy & Newspaper Library maintains a browsable collection of newspapers and periodicals as well as an extensive reference collection in the disciplines of history, philosophy and religion. The library holds over 100,000 reels of microfilmed newspapers and the general University of Illinois microfilm collection. The History, Philosophy & Newspaper Library is located on the second floor in Room 246.
The Library's new instruction room on the 3rd floor is where you'll go if you signed up for one of our workshops in the Savvy Researcher Series. Come learn how to organize your citations using RefWorks, use current awareness tools, investigate the implications of journal impact factors, apply Fair Use rules to copyright situations and deposit your research into the University digital repository, IDEALS.
The Applied Health Sciences Library encompasses disciplines in the following areas: sport sciences, kinesiology, physical education, exercise, fitness, health, leisure studies, recreation, rehabilitation education, and speech and hearing science. The Applied Health Sciences Library also houses the special collection of Avery Brundage, director of the International Olympic Committee from 1952-1972. The library is located on the first floor in Room 146. Check out the Health Information Portal.
The names on these tablets are of students who show sustained excellence in scholarship during their junior and senior years. These students are awarded University Honors and have their names permanently recorded on these bronze tablets. You can read more about the Bronze Tablets here: http://images.library.illinois.edu/projects/bronze/. They are located on the walls of the main corridor on the first floor.
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