My role in helping you with research:
These links will help you get acquainted with using the resources in Marston and the other UF Libraries branches:
| Student Affiliation | Circulation Period | Item Checkout Limit | Interlibrary Loan |
Off-campus Access to E-Resources |
| Undergraduate | 8 weeks | 100 | Yes | Yes |
| Innovation Academy | 8 weeks | 100 | Yes | Yes |
| Class Auditor | 8 weeks | 100 | Yes | Yes |
| Online Student | 8 weeks | 100 | Yes | Yes |
| Graduate Student | 8 weeks | 250 | Yes | Yes |
| Registered Graduate Exchange | 8 weeks | 250 | Yes | Yes |
The best way to find books and E-books is to use the Primo Search tool. This tool searches many of our resources, including the UF Libraries catalog. Click on the pink icons below to learn more about using Primo Search.
View the accessible version of this interactive content
For additional information about using Primo Search, here is a video tutorial about find both books and articles through Primo:
Locating Items Using Call Numbers
A call number is a series of numbers and letter that you see on the spine of a book and in the online catalog. A call number is used to organize catalogued library materials to be easier to locate on library shelves, and also to find items of similar subject areas together.
At the Smathers Libraries, we use the Library of Congress classification system for call numbers, which looks a lot different from the Dewey Decimal System of classification that you might be more familiar with from school and the public library.
New to call numbers? Typically:
Shorter call numbers indicate general and broad works in a subject area. Example: a general work about psychology would have this call number, BF1 .A25 - because the content is general and broad.
Longer call numbers indicate works that are more specific or specialized. Example: a book about developmental psychology would have this call number, BF712 .A36 - because the book's content is about a specific field of psychology.
Parts of the Call Number: BF76.7 .P83 2020
BF76.7 - the subject area where the book is located
.P83 - additional information about the book, sometimes more than one line
2020 - year of publication
Books are on the 4th Floor in the Marston Science Library. Materials are organized according to Library of Congress call numbers. To browse the print collection, use the below chart to determine the relevant call number range of books related to Physics.
| Call Number | Subject | ||
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| QC 1-75 | General Physics | ||
| QC 81-114 | Weights and measures | ||
| QC 120-168.85 | Descriptive and experimental mechanics | ||
| QC 170-197 |
Atomic physics, Constitution and properties of matter, Molecular physics, Relativity. Quantum theory, Solid state physics |
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| QC 221-246 | Acoustics, Sound | ||
| QC 251-338.5 | Heat, Thermodynamics | ||
| QC 350-467 | Optics, Light, Spectroscopy | ||
| QC 474-496.9 | Radiation physics
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Electricity and magnetism | ||
| QC 770-798 | Nuclear and particle physics, Atomic energy, Radioactivity | ||
| QC 801-809 | Geophysics, Cosmic physics | ||
| QC 811-849 | Geomagnetism | ||
| QC 851-999 | Meteorology, Climatology |
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