All FSU Libraries
- University Libraries
- College of Law Library (more info)
- Harold Goldstein Library, College of Information (more info)
- Maguire Medical Library (more info)
- Warren D. Allen Music Library (more info)
- Panama City, Florida (more info)
- Panama City, Panama (more info)
- The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Library (more info)
- Career Center Library (more info)
- The Mildred & Claude Pepper Library (more info)
- FSU Reading Rooms and Other Collections (more info)
Career Center Library
University Center A, Room 4101
Tallahassee, FL 32306-2490
Location - Building #223
Telephone: (850) 644-6431
Fax: (850) 644-3273
Hours: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday-Friday
A key source for information about careers, the Career Center Library contains more than 1,000 books, videotapes, CD-ROMs, brochures, handouts and other information related to occupations, government agencies, relocation information, graduate school programs, K-12 school systems, and job openings throughout the U.S.
Use the Center's library for resources on:
- Choosing a major course of study at FSU
- Planning or changing your career
- Finding a job or other opportunities for experience
- Developing an effective job search strategy
The Mildred & Claude Pepper Library
636 W. Call Street
Claude Pepper Building
Tallahassee, FL 32306-1124
Telephone: (850) 644-9217
Fax: (850) 644-9350
Hours: 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Monday – Friday
Weekend hours for researchers can be arranged in advance.
Contact: Robert Ryals, Curator
E-mail: rryals@admin.fsu.edu
Location: The Pepper Center (Building #57) is located on the northeast side of the main campus near the intersection of Call Street and Convocation Way within walking distance of Strozier Library.
The Pepper Library contains a unique collection of papers, photographs, memorabilia, and recordings from U.S. Congressman Claude Pepper (1900-1989) that spans the 20th century. The collection is of particular value to researchers conducting primary and secondary source research in the areas of policy studies, diplomacy, international affairs, and American history.
- The Pepper Library possesses an excellent primary source collection of over 1.4 million documents, 5,000 unique photographs, 4,500 books, 2,000 recordings and 1,800 artifacts.
- Topical strengths of the collection include: Aging, Civil Rights, Crime, Drug Prevention, Health Care, Lend-Lease, McCarthyism, Social Security, U.S. Foreign and Domestic Policy, Vietnam, Watergate, Welfare, Worker's Rights, World War II.
- Adjacent to the library is the Mildred & Claude Museum, an educational and informative exhibit that provides patrons with an overview of Pepper's life and dynamic 40 plus year political career.
College of Law Library
425 West Jefferson Street
Tallahassee, FL 32306-1600
Map - Building # 47
Telephone:
- Administration (850) 644-4578
- Circulation (850) 644-3405
- Hours (850) 644-2448
- Reference (850) 644-4095
The Law Library makes available all forms of legal information.
- Maintains more than 5,000 subscriptions
- Contains over 435,000 volumes and volume equivalents
- Includes print, microfilm, electronic, video and audio materials in the areas of American law, international and comparative law, and the laws of foreign countries
- Contains a substantial rare book collection which includes a copy of the 1553 edition of the Digests or Pandects of the Emperor Justinian, a 17th century handwritten legal opinion by Sir Edward Coke, and an 18-volume set of the session laws of Henry VIII, published in the mid-16th century.
- Since the mid-1970s the Library has led a special project to make the briefs of Florida Supreme Court cases available to the public, originally on microfiche and now via the web at http://www.law.fsu.edu/library/flsupct/.
FSU Reading Rooms and Other Collections
There are numerous reading rooms and other collections supported by individual departments and schools or colleges at FSU. Generally, resources in reading rooms and collections are for use only within those areas and are not loaned out.
FSU-PC ARC
Florida State University Panama City Campus
Academic Resource Center
FAC 213
4750 Collegiate Drive
Panama City, Florida 32405-1099
Telephone: 850-522-2007
Toll Free: 1-866-539-7588, ext. 199
FAX: 850-872-7720
Email: dsyrkin@pc.fsu.edu
The FSU-Panama City (FSU-PC) Academic Resource Center (ARC) is the on-campus location for access to quality electronic information, research materials, and research help. The ARC is equipped to provide access to the university libraries electronic resources, databases, library catalogs, and other information. Access to these electronic resources is also available from off campus. The ARC Librarian provides research assistance in person, by phone, and by email. The ARC services complement existing library services provided by the Gulf Coast Community College (GCCC) Library. Through an arrangement with GCCC, the GCCC Library houses the FSU-PC collection of books and journals.
Harold Goldstein Library, College of Information
106 Louis Shores Building
Tallahassee, FL 32306-2100
On FSU Map - Building #19
Telephone: (850) 644-1803
Hours
Named in honor of a former dean and professor of the former School of Information Studies, the Harold Goldstein Library is a vital component of the College of Information. Library staff members provide assistance to both faculty and students seeking information in the areas of library and information studies, information technology, and children's literature.
- Contains 85,000 volumes related to library and information studies, information technology, and children's literature
- Includes more than 400 serial and journal titles.
- Makes materials available to people outside of the FSU community, such as local library practitioners, through special borrowing permits
Maguire Medical Library
Call Street at Stadium Drive
Tallhassee, FL 32306-4300
Map - Building #247
Telephone: (850) 644-3883
E-Mail: MedLibrary@med.fsu.edu
Hours
Opened in Spring 2002, the Maguire Medical Library at the Florida State University College of Medicine is the first academic medical library created in the 21st century during a time when the development of the World Wide Web has proven to be an effective delivery mechanism for knowledge-based information. Though the emphasis is on delivering information electronically whenever available, the Maguire Medical Library has acquired a quality core print collection of books and journals. The collection focuses on medicine and delivery of medical care to rural, geriatric and other underserved populations.
The Library and Archives of The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art
5401 Bay Shore Road
Sarasota, Florida 34243
Telephone: 941-359-5700 x2700.
Fax: (941) 359-5745
Hours: 10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. daily.
Closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day
The Museum Library is a comprehensive collection devoted primarily to baroque art and the art collections of The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art. The non-circulating collection encompasses all periods of art history from antiquity to contemporary, including painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, architecture and design.
- More than 77,000 books and exhibition catalogues
- 100 current periodical subscriptions
- 400 periodical titles dating back to the 1800s
- 4,000 vertical files of announcements, posters and other collectibles about individual artists, museums, galleries and art dealers
- John Ringling's original library of more than 600 books
Panama City, Panama
Telephone: 507-314-0367 x239
Fax: 507-314-0366
E-Mail: ablackie@mailer.fsu.edu
The FSU-Panama Library is the most comprehensive English language academic Library in the Republic of Panama. It houses a general collection and primarily serves students and faculty engaged in undergraduate teaching and learning. The collection serves the teaching and research needs of the faculty and university and supports the courses taught therein with links to national and FSU-Tallahassee information resources.
Paul A.M. Dirac Science Library
Paul A. M. Dirac Building<
Tallahassee, FL 32306-4140
Telephone: (850) 644-5534
Hours
Map
Named for the Nobel Prize winner in Physics in 1933 for his work in the area of quantum mechanics, and a professor at FSU from 1971 until his death in 1984, The Paul A. M. Dirac Science Library houses the university holdings of research materials in the pure, applied, and related sciences.
- Maintains a collection of over 500,000 volumes of scientific books and periodicals
- Makes available within 24 hours over 126,000 volumes of older periodical and book materials in remote storage
- Online access to more than 350 databases and 11,000 electronic journals via 90 public computers
- Equipped to allow wireless network access for laptop computer users
- Houses the Paul A.M. Dirac Collection.
Robert Manning Strozier Library
116 Honors Way
Tallahassee, FL 32306-2047
Telephone: (850)644-2706
Hours
Map
Named for a former president of Florida State University, the Robert Manning Strozier Library is the main library for the University and the largest library facility on campus with seating for 2,620 users. It offers an extensive range of library services and has open stacks, meaning patrons are able to browse through rows of book shelves to make their own selection of materials.
In addition to the main collection, which is comprised primarily of materials in the humanities and social science subject areas, the Strozier Library has special collections, maps, government documents, multimedia, electronic and microform materials.
Warren D. Allen Music Library
Housewright Building, Room 90
Tallahassee, FL 32306-1180
Telephone: (850) 644-5028
Fax: (850) 644-3982
Map
The Music Library is one of the major music libraries in the southeastern U.S.
- More than 150,000 scores, books, sound and video recordings, periodicals, microforms, and manuscripts, including 17,000 long-play albums and 12,000 compact discs.
- Its research area houses significant collections of composers' complete works and an outstanding collection of theory treatises in original editions.
-
Chat requires JavaScript.
Thoughts, comments? Please take our survey!
Use chat window above or talk with someone by instant message, phone or in person.
Contact the librarian for your subject area here.
