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The Public Health Library is located in the basement of University Hall on the University of California Berkeley campus. The library's services and collections support primarily the School of Public Health and its research units. See below for a description of the Public Health Library collection.
Other campus library collections which support fields related to public health include:
The Public Health Library collection includes material in all areas of public health, including nutrition in health and disease, health administration, epidemiology, toxicology, occupational health, maternal and child health, biostatistics, communicable diseases, community health and environmental health, and international health. We currently have about 104,000 volumes and 725 current print serial titles. We also have access to over 53,000 electronic journals and over 40,000 electronic books.
Library services and collections are open to the public. Most of the library's materials circulate for use outside the library. Materials circulate to UCB faculty, staff, and students with valid ID cards. Others who wish to borrow materials must have a current library card issued by Library Privileges, located on the first floor of Doe Library.
Most material is shelved in open stacks by call number. Recent issues of some high-use journals are on display in an area near the back of the library, arranged in alphabetical order.
A small collection of journal titles, kept separately because of special funding, are shelved alphabetically by title on the back right-hand side of the stacks. These are the Unclassed journals, which carry the shelving designation of "UNCL" instead of a call number in the catalogs.
Books circulate for one month, subject to recall. Journals (except for the UNCL titles which do not circulate) circulate for 2 hours. Journals are non-renewable.
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There are several public PCs available, including one ADA access terminal. All require CalNet authentication for full access to the World Wide Web. Access to Library resources, including catalogs, databases, and online journals, as well as all .edu, .org, and .gov sites is available without CalNet authentication.
You may print (using a copy card), or download to a flash drive or disk from these computers. Printing from the public PCs costs 13 cents/page. Complete instructions are at each PC. There is no word processing software on any of these computers.
In addition, the Public Health Library is set up for wireless AirBears access for UCB students, faculty, and staff. UCB patrons can check out a laptop or wireless card at the Circulation desk. (Laptop/wireless card loan is available to UCB students, staff, and faculty only.)
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