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Academic Resources
Reference librarians at the Information Desk offer assistance in utilizing library resources. Reference help is also available through the library’s Ask a Librarian email service, online chat, and research consultation appointments, Tours and classes may be scheduled for group instruction.
Library The W.I. Dykes Library (www.uhd.edu/library) occupies the north portion of the fourth floor and the entire fifth floor of the One Main Street building. The library’s fourth floor houses a computer lab, thirteen group study rooms, two presentation practice rooms, two classrooms, an event room, vending machines, and a comfortable reading room where students are able to study or relax between classes. A major renovation of the fifth floor that will include a coffee house and new individual study spaces is under way and scheduled for completion in 2012.. The library may be entered from the Main Street elevators or stairwells.
Card and coin-operated photocopiers and a scanner station are available in the library. Two computer workstations are reserved for visually impaired students. Anyone with special physical or communication needs may ask for assistance from any library service desk or phone the library to schedule an appointment for special services. If the W.I. Dykes Library does not own a book or journal article needed by a student, faculty, or staff member, then an interlibrary loan request may be submitted online through the library’s My Interlibrary Loan system and the library’s Interlibrary Loan (ILL) Department will make every effort to borrow the material from another library within the nation-wide ILL network. ILL is primarily a free service. If there will be a charge, permission will be requested before UHD obtains material for you. The ILL Department also provides services for UHD off-campus distance students and faculty who would like to have materials from the W. I. Dykes Library collections delivered to them at the site where they have classes.
The library has holdings of more than 325,000 electronic and print books, subscriptions to more than 207 databases and access to more than 65,000 digital journals. The library also has a collection of over 3000 physical AV items that are available for checkout or for listening and/or viewing in the library, and access to more than 8,000 digital AV items. More than 80 computers provide access to the library’s online catalog, electronic databases , and the Internet. The UHD Online Catalog lists the books and journals available in the W.I. Dykes Library, most University of Houston central campus libraries and the University of Houston-Clearlake library. Print books from other UH system libraries may be requested electronically by clicking the request button in the online library catalog. Access to the catalog and electronic resources from a home computer, wireless locations or from UHD computer labs supports research 24 hours per day. The library’s electronic holdings include e-books and databases that may be searched to identify articles on a topic. Search results can be printed, downloaded to a flash drive and/or emailed. Students, faculty, and staff can connect to these electronic resources from any location with their e-services ID and PIN. The library network also provides access to the online catalogs of other Houston area libraries and to a wealth of Internet resources.
A UHD identification card is used as the library card and must be presented when checking out materials. The library is open seven days a week during fall and spring semesters and Monday through Saturday during summer sessions. Check with the library for intersession and holiday hours. For reference information call 713-221-8187; for circulation information call 713-221-8186. Follow library updates through Facebook (www.facebook.com/UHDLibrary) and Twitter (twitter.com/uhdlibrary).
Academic Support Center The Academic Support Center (ASC) houses the Math Lab, Statistics Lab, and the Writing/Reading Center. Each lab provides students, in particular those enrolled in core courses, with support towards improving individual writing, reading, mathematics skills, and statistics. Students benefit from one-on-one consultations with UHD faculty members or with peer tutors, as well as a variety of learning aids, such as textbooks, study guides, graphing calculators, instructional videos, , and grammar guides. The center provides access to computers to satisfy course requirements and a relaxed study area for students. The center is located in room 925-North of the One Main Street building and the hours of operation are structured to fit day, evening, and weekend students’ schedules. The ASC is open to all currently enrolled UHD students and students may attend as often as they like. The center's web site is located at www.uhd.edu/academic/colleges/university/asc.html
The library’s collection contains encyclopedias, dictionaries, directories, and numerous other reference sources in electronic and print formats. The full text of journal, magazine, and newspaper articles in electronic form can be found by using the library’s full text databases, which include Academic Search Complete, ACM Digital Library, American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection, Black Studies Center, Business Source Complete, Gender Studies Database, LexisNexis Academic, JSTOR, ProQuest Historical Newspapers, PsycARTICLES, SAGE Journals Online, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Westlaw Campus Research. Many additional electronic resources for finding citations or information about a topic can be accessed through the library’s website, including ARTstor, Counseling and Therapy in Video, Films on Demand, ICPSR, PsycINFO, Redalyc, Social Work Abstracts, SocINDEX, and Web of Science. The library also houses the Texas Education Collection, which includes teacher editions of select Texas state-adopted textbooks for K-12. This collection is supplemented by holdings of
Computing Services The University of Houston-Downtown provides state-of-the-art
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