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The UNCW Library, with its Randall Hall and Discovery Hall, fosters and promotes student success, faculty scholarship, and community engagement, providing information resources, learner-and-scholar-centered services, and community programming for the campus and greater Southeast North Carolina community in a welcoming and inclusive environment.
Its collections include approximately 1.5 million items in various formats, including almost 400,000 print books, more than 600,000 eBooks, approximately 300,000 print and electronic journals, almost 60,000 media items (e.g., DVDs, CDs), and just under 70,000 streaming videos. The library subscribes to more than 550 databases providing UNCW students, staff, and faculty access to journals, newspapers, statistics, primary source material, videos, and other online content. Library resources are searchable from the library’s website: https://library.uncw.edu. The Library’s Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery service provides access to information resources held by other libraries around the world free of charge to UNCW students, faculty and staff. Requests are submitted online through the Library’s website.
The library’s Center for Southeast North Carolina Archives and History offers students access to primary source materials that focus on the history, culture, economy, environment, and politics of southeastern NC and includes University Archives as well as 400 unique manuscript collections, almost 900 oral histories, and hundreds of books. Its collection also includes state and federal government documents (print and electronic).
Knowledgeable and helpful library faculty, staff, and student assistants, provides comprehensive information access and research assistance. The Library is dedicated to the goal of educating users, especially students, in the identification, use and evaluation of information in all formats. In addition to providing immediate assistance at the Library Help Desk, staff and faculty provide research assistance by chat, e-mail, phone, or in-depth assistance by appointment. The Library partners with other library service providers for 24/7 chat reference service. Subject guides and tutorials available on the Library’s website assist users in learning about the Library’s resources. Additionally, library faculty offer assistance to all UNCW students and instructors in developing important research skills, including the following services:
- Individual research consultations by appointment.
- Liaison Librarians who work with students in each academic department on their discipline specific research projects.
- Course related instruction that teaches library and information research methods tailored to the course topic.
- Workshops on various aspects of information research and specific resources, digital creation and editing software, 3-D modeling and printing and other topics.
During the semester at least one building is open 7am – 2am Mon-Thu, 7am – 9pm Fri, 12 noon – 6pm Sat and 10am Sun - 2am Mon. Check the library’s website for up-to-date building and service hours. The library provides approximately 2700 seats in a variety of environments. Fifty-seven group study rooms are available throughout both buildings. These rooms are equipped with large screen HDTV displays to use with laptops in order to assist student collaboration and can be reserved online through the library’s website. There are 100 computers available in the library, many with dual monitors, several scanners including a walk-up quick scanning station, Bloomberg terminals, and GIS workstations.
The Maker Studio, located in the newly opened Discovery Hall, provides technologies such as virtual and augmented reality, 3D printing, modeling and laser cutting, and a state-of-the-art recording studio to all UNCW students, staff, and faculty in support of creation, prototyping, and digital literacy. Additionally, Discovery Hall is home to a Visualization & Analysis Lab (VAL) with a 30-foot video display wall and high-performance computing for classes, presentations, and collaborations to visualize and display large data sets, as well as an events space and exhibit gallery, daily lockers, and a Library Technology Desk to provide support for technology and loan equipment such as cameras and microphones.
The second floor of Randall Hall also houses a large graduate student lounge with group study, lockers, and other amenities, a sensory-friendly study space to support diverse student study needs, a “living room” gathering space for collaboration and study, and the Retreat at Randall, a wellness space intended for quiet contemplation, reflection, meditation, mindfulness, prayer, stress relief, stretching, and yoga.
Central Perch in Randall Hall provides beverages and food; a small food store in the Link offers grab-and-go sandwiches, salads, and snacks. The Technology Assistance Center (TAC), operated by UNCW Information Technology Servicesand the iPrint Business Center, are also located in Randall Hall. In addition to offering technology assistance, TAC also provides laptops to check out.
In addition to its services and spaces, the Library offers a variety of programming throughout the year including readings, workshops, exhibits and study breaks.
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