Campus libraries contain over 650,000 volumes in their collections. The main library's collection of books and serials is organized into three major subject areas: humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Each subject area occupies one floor of the five-level structure. Access to the collections is provided through an online catalog, both from within the library and across the campus.
Major service functions are located on the main floor (level 3) of the library. The reference area houses an extensive collection of encyclopedias, dictionaries, bibliographies, directories, indices and abstracts brought together to facilitate the finding of specific information. Access to current information contained in reports and journals is identified through the use of a CD-ROM local area network. Computer workstations provide users with electronic access to databases covering such fields as education, psychology, sociology, biology, forestry, environmental science, recreation and wildlife management, languages and literature. At the reference/information desk, librarians offer personal assistance and guidance in the use of the collections. Other functions on the main floor include book circulation, the reserve book room, microforms, newspapers and interlibrary loan. The library maintains an active interlibrary loan program for students and faculty through affiliation and liaison with major library networks and individual research libraries, both in this country and abroad. Extensive use of document delivery services supplement the collections.
Government documents, maps, archives and special collections are housed together on the first floor of the main library. Since 1965, the library has been the regional depository for the state and receives all U.S. government publications available to depository libraries. Significant holdings of Montana history are found in archives and special collections. Represented are rare books, pamphlets, papers, manuscripts and photographs. These reflect important literary and political figures, as well as business and industry, in Montana. The Montana state documents collection contains those books and periodicals issued by state agencies.
Some of the special features of the library include small study rooms, faculty and student seminar rooms, private study carrels, a computer lab, a specially equipped room for the visually handicapped a room for typing and viewing microforms, as well as facilities for rapid photocopying of materials. At the request of the faculty, selected titles from the book collection are placed on short-term loan in the reserve book room for required or recommended reading in certain courses.
The library provides a variety of orientation programs designed to acquaint students with general and specific subject oriented resources. Regular, interim, and holiday hours are permanently posted at the library.
Instructional Media Services
As a Division of the Mansfield Library, IMS is an audiovisual library and production center located on the first floor of the Social Science Building. It incorporates viewing and listening facilities for all standard media formats such as video and CD recordings. Mac and PC computers are available for previewing multimedia software and to access the CD-ROMS located in the Mansfield Library. Music scores and music reference works are also available at IMS for convenient use by listeners. All IMS materials are circulated as library materials to faculty, staff and enrolled students. Audiovisual equipment is loaned to both students, faculty and staff to facilitate the use of nonprint materials in connection with academic pursuits.
The nonprint collection has nearly 100,000 items on Griznet. Items include motion pictures, slides, filmstrips, videotapes, audio tape recordings, books on tape, videodiscs, honograph records, CD's, art prints, study prints, transparencies, maps, and interactive multimedia software. The film and video collection also enjoys a national reputation through interlibrary loan and as a rental library.
IMS offers instructional products: color copying from slides, negatives, and original material and xerographic copying; color slides from computer data; color and black & white film processing and general photography; slide, text and graphic scanning; poster lamination and shrink wrapping; fax service; audiotape and videotape duplication; color transparencies; and all types of audio visual equipmen .
Courses
U = for undergraduate credit only, UG = for undergraduate or graduate credit, G = for graduate credit. R after the credit indicates the course may be repeated for credit to the maximum indicated after the R.
U 195 Special Topics 1-6 cr. (R-6) Experimental offerings of visiting professors, experimental offerings of new courses, or one-time offerings of current topics.
U 196 Independent Study 1-6 cr.(R-6) Prereq., consent of instructor.
U 295 Special Topics 1-6 cr. (R-6) Experimental offerings of visiting professors, experimental offerings of new courses, or one-time offerings of current topics.
U 296 Independent Study 1-6 cr.(R-6) Prereq., consent of instructor.
U 395 Special Topics 1-9 cr. (R-9) Experimental offerings of visiting professors, experimental offerings of new courses, or one-time offerings of current topics.
U 396 Independent Study 1-9 cr.(R-9) Prereq., consent of instructor.
UG 495 Special Topics 1-12 cr.(R-12) Experimental offerings of visiting professors, experimental offerings of new courses, or one-time offerings of current topics.
U 496 Independent Study 1-9 cr.(R-9) Prereq., consent of instructor.
U 596 Independent Study 1-9 cr.(R-9) Prereq., consent of instructor.
Faculty
Professors
Devon Chandler, Ed.D., University of Oregon, 1973 (Director of Instructional Media Service) (Emeritus)
Karen Driessen, M.A., University of Denver, 1967 (Media Librarian, Instructional Media Service)
Richard T. Dunn, M.A.L.S., Rosary College, 1972 (Collection Development Librarian Emeritus)
William W. Elison, M.A., University of Denver, 1970 (Social Science Librarian)
Karen Hatcher, M.L.S., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1964 (Dean)
Dale L. Johnson, Ph.D., The University of Montana, 1976 (Archivist)
Douglas E. Mills, M.A., University of California, 1950 (Director of Technical Services Emeritus)
Erling R. Oelz, M.S., University of Illinois, 1968 (Director of Public Services)
Dennis L. Richards, M.A., Florida State University, 1963 (Documents Librarian)
Robert G. Schipf, M.L.S., University of Oklahoma, 1961 (Science Librarian; Emeritus)
Bonnie H. Schuster, M.A., University of Minnesota, 1968 (Systems Administration Librarian)
Associate Professors
Barry Brown, M.I.L.S., University of Michigan, 1989 (Science Librarian)
Kathryn E. Higgins, M.S.L.S., University of Southern California, 1971 (Catalog Librarian)
Coburn R. Johnson, M.A., University of Denver, 1972 (Catalog Librarian)
Adelaine S. Midgett, B.A., The University of Montana, 1933 (Catalog Librarian Emeritus)
Susan M. Mueller, M.L.S., Emporia State University, 1975 (Director of Technical Services)
Christopher Mullin, M.A., University of Washington, 1969 (Special Collections Librarian)
Assistant Professors
Rita Nelson, B.A., The University of Montana (Assistant Acquisitions Librarian Emeritus)
Harriett Ranney, M.L.S., Drexel University, 1973 (Music Librarian)
Sue Samson, M.A., University of Missouri, 1977 (Humanities Librarian)