University Libraries Fact Sheet
The University Libraries' were established in 1957 and now include the main Lied Library (pronounced LEED) and three branch
libraries: Architecture Studies, Curriculum Materials, and Music.
Hours
- Hours of operation - Lied Library
Nearly 100 hours each week
- Hours of operation - Branch libraries
Between 60 and 70 hours a week
- 24/7
Access to an increasing number of the Libraries' collections, e.g. electronic reserves, e-books, e-journals, online databases is
available to affiliated users electronically from off campus 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Personnel
- 37 faculty
- 67 classified
- 7 professional staff
Collections - All University Libraries
- Nearly 1,000,000 monographs
- 8,500 serials subscriptions
- 12,000 serial titles accessible through aggregated databases
- Over 170 electronic indexes, databases, or reference sources
- 27,000 media materials such as videos, music compact disks, DVD,
audio-cassettes
- 1.5 million microforms
Lied Library - Facility
- 302,000 square feet - equivalent to 6.9 acres
- 153,000 linear feet or over 28 miles of shelving
- 2 million volume capacity when LASR is at full build-out
- 800 data drops & opportunities to connect laptops to the network
- 317 public desktop computer workstations
- 18 laptops and a portable projector available for checkout within
the building
- 4 instructional rooms (2 electronic and 2 multi-purpose)
- 16 group study rooms
- 4 media viewing rooms
- 13 public photocopiers
- University Teaching and Learning Center, Honors College and the
Graduate student study/lounge
- The Book 'n' Bean Café
- Dedicated: January 2001
Architect of Record: Welles Pugsley Architects
Design Architect: Leo A. Daly
Cost: $55.3 million
Lied Library - Collections
- Over 950,600 volumes
- Approximately 7,950 serial subscriptions, including those in electronic form, and over 5,500 additional government documents collection serials
- Over 1,744,895 microforms
- Nearly 13,500 VHS, DVD, Laserdiscs, Audio Cassettes and CD-ROMs
- More than 20,000 maps
- 1.1 million state and federal government documents.
Special Collections - The Special Collections section of the library provides
unique materials relating to Las Vegas and southern Nevada history, and
it houses a Gaming Research Collection and the Nevada Women's Archive.
- 34,000 volumes
- 700 periodicals
- 5,000 linear feet of archives and manuscripts
- 2000 sets of architectural drawings
- 100,000 photographs
- 2000 maps
- 1000 videotapes
- 2000 audio tapes
Lied Library - Special Features:
LASR
The LASR (Lied Automated Storage and Retrieval) unit in Lied Library integrates
industrial automated materials handling technologies with the online library
catalog system to provide an innovative solution to long-term library
storage. Three computer-controlled cranes provide access to bins full
of stored materials. Library patrons access stored materials through the
library catalog. The LASR operator receives the electronic request and
activates the appropriate crane to retrieve the materials. LASR is designed
to store approximately 600,000 volumes and can be expanded to handle an
additional 600,000 volumes. Currently more than 175,000 items are stored
in LASR, including older bound periodicals and lesser-used government
publications and microforms.
Media Distribution System
The Media and Computer Services Department
in Lied Library provides viewing and listening capabilities for the
media collection via an integrated video network system (Safari). This
system allows the delivery of analog and digital media to library carrels,
preview rooms, multimedia PCs, library classrooms, and conference rooms.
The media distribution system is currently equipped to playback VHS,
DVDs, CDs, audiocassettes, selected cable channels, and to receive satellite
downlinks. This system frees the user from having to move from machine
to machine and from physically handling all the equipment and materials,
and it links beyond Lied Library and connects with selected branch libraries,
conference rooms, and campus classrooms.
Digital ID
Lied Library and the Curriculum Materials Library
have implemented a state-of-the-art collection management system using
the 3M Digital Materials Flow Management™ system. The system uses radio
frequency identification (RFID), allowing staff to track, identify,
and control library material more efficiently. The Digital ID technology
is used in the Libraries' self-checkout stations and in the staff workstations
to handle borrowing transactions. A handheld scanner is used by staff
to rapidly check shelf order, to search for missing items, to perform
inventories, and to record in-house use of most items.
