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THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

The University Libraries system includes five separate libraries:

• Amelia Gayle Gorgas Library [6] (humanities, social sciences, and government information) (central quadrangle)
• Angelo Bruno Business Library [7] (Stadium Drive) 
• McLure Education Library [8] (University Boulevard) 
• Eric and Sara Rodgers Library for Science and Engineering [9](Hackberry Lane) 
• W. S. Hoole Special Collections Library [10] (second floor of Mary Harmon Bryant Hall on Hackberry Lane).

Note: Library functions such as acquisitions, cataloging, interlibrary loan, and systems are housed in Gorgas Library.

 

LIBRARIES' FLOOR PLANS

Learn your way around each library

• Angelo Bruno Business Library [11][http://brunolib.cba.ua.edu/about/flplans.html]
• McLure Education Library [12][http://www.lib.ua.edu/floorplans/educ/eduflrpln.htm]
• Eric and Sara Rodgers Library for Science and Engineering [13][http://www.lib.ua.edu/floorplans/sel/selflrpln.htm]
• W. S. Hoole Special Collections Library [14][http://www.lib.ua.edu/floorplans/hoole/specflrpln.htm]
   

• What is ILL? A hold or recall? To help clarify library terminology, the American Library Association provides translations and definitions of commonly used library terms.
   
• Definitions of library terms  [15](in English)
  [http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/about/sections/is/projpubs/definitions.pdf]

 

STUDENT EMPLOYMENT (ON-CAMPUS JOBS)
Many University Libraries departments employ student assistants in payroll or workstudy/community service positions.

• Learn more about Student Employment in University Libraries [16] [http://www.lib.ua.edu/employment/]
   
• For a list of all on-campus jobs, including library jobs, go to http://jobs.ua.edu/ [17].