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The Walter Royal Davis Library is the central library for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Encompassing over 400,000 square feet - the size of several football fields - and providing seating for over 2,000 users plus carrels for an additional 1,000 readers, Davis is the largest and most comprehensive library on campus and a major research facility of national standing. Its holdings include more than 2,500,000 volumes and 2,000,000 printed government documents, over 3,000,000 microforms, and thousands of electronic titles.
The online catalog lists the large majority of Davis Library's holdings. Most CD-ROMs, government documents, maps, microforms, and older monographs, however, are not yet in the online catalog. Users can find these materials by consulting the card catalog and special files and printed guides in the reference and microform collections.
The Walter Royal Davis Library houses the main general, humanities, and social sciences collections, including the major campus holdings of government documents and microforms. It also includes the main reference, electronic information, and interlibrary borrowing services for the campus.
With over 100 public computers, plus a computer lab, two dozen group study rooms, two high-tech instructional labs, a collaboratory where library staff assist faculty in integrating digital resources into their web-based teaching and research projects, together with over 2,300 Internet connections and wireless communications throughout, Davis Library is among the most intensively computerized and technologically advanced libraries in the world. Davis Library also provides laptop computers that students and faculty can checkout for three-hour periods. It is open 100 hours a week.
