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Science & Engineering Library

Location
910 Bloom Walk
Science & Engineering Library
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0481

Phone: (213) 740 8507
Fax: (213) 821 4214

Email: sci@usc.edu

Campus map code: SSL

Overview

Library News

(click to go to our news blog for more details; also see the links under Resources, below)

  • New Mac version of SciFinder Scholar 2007 is now available! This new version runs on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5) without using Rosetta. Please read the news from the CAS. If you want to access this new version on your Mac, please contact Norah Xiao!
  • The USC Libraries new strategic plan -- with emphases on collections, customer service and technology/access -- "The Essential Library," is on the web! http://www.usc.edu/libraries/essential/
  • Chat with S&E Librarians at nights: S&E subject chat on Ask-A-Librarian hours are Monday 7 - 9pm and Wednesday 6 - 8pm, when the University is in session. (We will post information on summer hours soon.)
  • More of our Springer books series are online, fulltext, back to volume 1 than ever before! Click here for the list.
  • The Science & Engineering Library now has a news blog, SELUSC. Please bookmark this blog and update yourself about library news!
  • Several of the important databases to which the USC Libraries subscribe for the University require users to download small programs that authenticate them as valid USC users. These programs embed some USC licensing data and cannot be publicly shared, per the database vendors. So you need to get them from us. The programs are: SciFinder Scholar (American Chemical Society), and the Beilstein (organic) and Gmelin (inorganic) chemistry databases (the last two on the Crossfire platform). For the files, and other assistance, please contact our chemistry subject specialist Norah Xiao at nxiao@usc.edu.
  • Kris Hattori is the new Science & Engineering Library Technology Specialist! He will be assisting patrons with electronic resources, supervising student assistants, and managing the reserves operation.

Journals

Approximately 70,000 bound journal volumes are shelved on the second and third floors. Approximately 600 current titles are shelved on the first floor in the Current Periodicals area. Journal are shelved alphabetically by title, with titles beginning with A through O shelved on the second floor and titles beginning with P through Z shelved on the third floor. Additional journal volumes are stored in the Grand Avenue Library. These volumes are pageable via HOMER, USC’s online catalog, and can be delivered to the S&E circulation desk (choose S&E from the pulldown page menu).

  • Many journals are now available through USC's electronic resources.
  • If you need to know which bound journal volumes are in the Science & Engineering Library, use this LIST, which is signficantly more accurate than HOMER.
  • Click here to download a one-page document consisting of instructions and suggestions for locating e-journal content at USC.

Books

  • The reference collection of approximately 5,000 volumes is located on the first foor.
  • The new books are shelved on the first floor adjacent to the elevator.
  • Approximately 80,000 books are shelved on the third floor. Additional books are stored in Grand Avenue Library and are pageable via HOMER, USC's online catalog. Be sure to select Science & Engineering as the delivery point.
  • Books placed on reserve for a particular course for the current semester are shelved behind the circulation desk, along with a small number of books that are on permanent reserve. Please request reserve books at the circulation desk.

Technical Reports

Approximately 20,000 technical reports, with an emphasis on NASA reports, are shelved on the second floor, adjacent to the elevator.

Key Databases and Other Resources

Updated May 13, 2008