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The M. Louis Salmon Library at The University of Alabama in Huntsville is housed in a 105,000 square foot facility which includes a state-of-the-art high-tech wing with an Information Arcade, five computer labs including: a math tutorial lab, a liberal arts lab, a nursing lab, and two Library/distance learning labs. Over 250 workstations are supported in the facility. The Library has its own Systems Division, a Website Design Team, and a Media/Distance Learning Support Center.

The Library supports the academic and research programs of the University. It has a collection of over 325,000 print volumes, a selective collection of over 500,000 United States government publications, and over 600,000 materials in microform and manuscript collections. In addition to books and microform materials, the Library offers a broad selection of books, journals, newspapers and other serials in electronic form. Approximately 111,000 electronic periodicals (of which over 66,000 are unique titles), over 58,000 electronic books and over 350 databases can be accessed both on and off campus via the Library website at www.uah.edu/library. The Library provides access to numerous major online resources including the entire Elsevier online collection of over 1845 journal titles through Science Direct, the IEEE collection through IEEExplore, the JSTOR (Journal Storage) collection, the Web of Science, Sage’s 10 Online Collections, the SPIE Digital Library, the Blackwell Synergy Journals, among many others. All materials and services in the UAH Library are available without charge to UAH faculty members and students.

In addition, the University Archives/Special Collections offer a number of unique collections including the papers of former Congressman Robert Jones, the personal Library of Willy Ley, the architectural research collection of Harvie P. Jones, and several major space related collections involving such projects as the Saturn V rocket, Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz, among others.

For students in science and engineering and technology, research at UAH is supported by the Redstone Scientific Information Center (RSIC) located five miles from campus. RSIC was developed to support the wide-ranging research interests of NASA and the United States Army Missile Command’ and it is one of the finest technical libraries in the Southeast. Reciprocal borrowing agreements are also in force with over 100 academic libraries and particularly with the Network of Alabama Academic Libraries (NAAL). The Library has a contract with the University of Illinois for access to its 10 million books and 100,000 serial titles. The Library is a member of several consortia that provide access to research materials not owned by libraries in north Alabama. Its membership in the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) and the Network of Alabama Academic Libraries (NAAL) facilitates rapid document delivery/interlibrary loan services.

Reference services are provided not only electronically through the Library’s virtual E-reference system, but also by 10 subject specialist librarians who staff the reference desk. The librarians are able to assist students in finding information in person, by e–mail, phone. Group Library instruction sessions are provided to teach students how to locate, manage, and evaluate the information they need for class projects and papers. Other Library services include wireless access, federated searching across databases (Super Search), instant linking to the article level in most databases (LinkSource), Turnitin.com training (plagiarism), group study rooms, computers for writing papers, a scanner workstation, a digital audio/video room, and special computer accommodations for users with disabilities and support for distance education. A new, user-friendly printing system is available in the Library InfoArcade and labs.

For additional information about the Library, inquire at the Circulation Desk, (256)824-6530, the Reference Desk, (256)824-6529 or Interlibrary Loan, (256)824-6124. Library home page: www.uah.edu/library.