The University Library of the University of California, Merced

The university research library of the 21st century will be a physical place on campus intertwined with a digital presence on student and faculty computers.

As one of the first three buildings constructed on the new UC Merced campus, the Leo and Dottie Kolligian Library will open in 2005 as the University's "front door." The Kolligian Library will house physical collections and information resources to serve the needs of the first American research university to be built this century.

The Library will be both a building and a service. The building will house the enterprise that acquires, organizes, and delivers information resources in support of student and faculty research and study. Library resources and services will be available in the building as well from computers connected to the campus network and to the Internet.

Some Library resources will be in physical packages that sit on shelves: books, paper archives, sound recordings, maps, photographs, and much more. Others will be in digital packages, such as online journal articles, data sets, and geographic information systems.

With the integration of the physical and the digital to create a 21st century library for UC Merced, the Kolligian Library will also be a vibrant place for learning and collaboration. While there, students and faculty will receive the highest quality support for their information resource needs, and they will become prepared to make the fullest use of the Library's digital content and services from their personal computers when they are in their dorms, labs, offices, and homes.