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| Science and Engineering Library > Biology Collection > History |
| HISTORY |
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The Biology Library
was closed as of July 1999. The collection moved into the Science and Engineering
Library, aka the North Reading Room, of Melville Library. The Biology Library,
also known as the Biological Sciences Library or the Life Sciences Library,
was located in the separate, one-level Life Sciences Library Building adjacent
to the Life Science Building. The library was opened in 1975, with its collections
drawn from the general library collections.
The purpose of the collection is to support teaching and research in the departments of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Ecology and Evolution, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, and Neurobiology and Behavior through and beyond the doctoral level. The collection numbers approximately 86,000 volumes, with another 20,000 volumes in storage in the Melville Library. The Library subscribes to approximately 400 current serials in the biological sciences. The Biology collection includes materials in biology, biochemistry, botany, forestry, natural history, paleontology, physiology, and zoology at the research level, with lesser collections in microbiology, agriculture, and biophysics. Marine biology is located in the Biology Library, with oceanography located in the Marine and Atmospheric Sciences Information Center, Masic. The Health Sciences Library collects all materials with clinical and medical aspects. Access to the biology collection, and to biological sciences materials in general, is through Stars, the online catalog. |
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