ALFRED R. NEUMANN LIBRARY
http://prtl.uhcl.edu/library
UHCL’s Alfred R. Neumann Library, named after the university’s founding chancellor, provides students with online access to thousands of books, journals and scholarly resources. UHCL librarians offer personal research assistance to students via telephone or face-to face at the library reference desk and tips on navigating search interfaces, retrieving information and evaluating information for use in scholarly research.
Visitors can receive help formulating effective search queries, becoming familiar with controlled vocabulary searching and identifying the best online resources out of a collection of more than a 130 subscription-only databases most with full-text articles. Upon request by the instructor, classes are available in research procedures tailored to particular courses.
Students may also make appointments with librarians to explore more indepth instruction on library research strategies in a comfortable one-on-one environment.
Students who are resuming their education after an interruption are encouraged to make an appointment with a librarian to find out the latest library research methods.
UHCL students, faculty and staff may also borrow books from UH and UH-Downtown quickly and easily through the shared catalog. The Texshare card, available upon request in Neumann Library, allows a UHCL student to go to any academic or public library in Texas and check out a book, which can then be returned to Neumann Library. The library’s interlibrary loan service will borrow requested materials from any library in the country through a national interlibrary loan network.
Neumann Library offers 35 fixed computer workstations and 14 wireless laptops for student use. The library classroom is equipped with wireless laptops so that students may participate in a hands-on learning environment.
The library occupies approximately 80,000 square feet in the Bayou Building and contains study space for more than 1,000 users. The library contains more than 475,000 volumes, subscribes to nearly 1,000 periodicals, and has approximately 1.8 million items in microform. A curriculum library for education students contains K-12 textbooks, classic children’s literature and a review center for recent children’s literature.
Neumann Library also includes university archives, which houses the NASA Johnson Space Center History Collection.
