New Home for Optometry Library

In preparation for the new health sciences library to be open in 2017, the print collection of books and bound journals located at the Weston A. Pettey Optometry Library will be moved to the MD Anderson Library. The collection will be fully searchable in the catalog, and users are encouraged to locate books using the online catalog search and request feature. There will be a daily courier service between libraries when these materials are needed. Items can be sent to any branch library or delivered directly to departmental mailboxes for faculty of academic departments with no branch library. Alternately, users may access the collection in the basement of the MD Anderson Library. For more information, contact the Optometry Library at 713.743.1910.

Plans for second floor library renovation in the forthcoming Health and Biomedical Sciences Building 2. Library is in blue.

Plans for second floor library renovation in the forthcoming Health and Biomedical Sciences Building 2. Library is in blue.

At the end of the Fall 2016 semester, the staff and services of the Optometry Library will move to the Doctors of Texas State Optical Alumni Education Center, Room 186 Auditorium, on the first floor of the University of Houston College of Optometry (located in the recently constructed Health and Biomedical Sciences Building 1). While the Optometry Library is in its temporary location, it will continue to provide full library services to the faculty, staff, and students of the UH College of Optometry. The space will include reserve materials, a computer lab, study spaces, models, and microscopes.

The new health sciences library will be located on the second floor of the forthcoming Health and Biomedical Sciences Building 2. In addition to optometry, the library will serve other programs including pharmacy, graduate nursing, and new health professions programs such as physical therapy. Features of the new library include four study rooms with large, flat screen monitors that can be connected to laptops, a conference room, a classroom, and both group and quiet study spaces. Resources such as computers, microscopes, white boards, and anatomical models will be available. While the library will house course reserves, only a small print collection will be located there.

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Posted on July 22nd, 2016 by Linda Thompson and filed under Announcements | Comments Off on New Home for Optometry Library