The J. Murrey Atkins Library, the largest academic research library in the Southern Piedmont region, is proud to serve as the center of intellectual life at UNC Charlotte. The Library is a member of ASERL (the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries), with a mission of advancing the scholarly and creative endeavors of the University and the greater Charlotte community by providing exceptional collections, spaces, services, and technologies. It inspires innovation, support research, and cultivate scholarship.
Research
The Library continues to aggressively grow its robust digital collections with access to over 55,000 electronic journals and about 500,000 electronic books, and maintains over 2 million volumes. Expert subject librarians provide a variety of research services: course assignment, project, and paper help, citation assistance, information literacy classes, support for online class software and much more. They can be reached via live chat, email, phone, in person at the Research Help enclosure on the 1st floor, and for one-on-one meetings involving deeper, subject-related study. Rare materials and archives are also accessible for physical and digital research in Special Collections and University Archives on the 10th floor.
Services
The Library faculty and staff are committed to consistently reinventing library services that meet the changing dynamics of research needs. The Library’s Technology and Digital Strategies unit partners with faculty and graduate students in the use of digital and networked research tools to create, disseminate, and store new knowledge. This unit can support the research process and projects through advising, digital tools, and a set of services including data management, digitization and digital imaging, usability, and publication services.
Facilities
The Library features study and collaboration spaces for all needs including 42 reservable group study rooms, Graduate and Quiet Study rooms, and collaborative tables, seating areas, and enclosures throughout the building. The entire building features wireless access as well as more than 400 computers (Macs and PCs). Students can check out laptops for 24 hours from the Circulation Desk and experiment with new technologies (3D printers, etc.) on the 2nd floor. Additionally available are Atkins Café is on the ground floor, as well as vending machines, or students may bring their own food and drink.
The Library is open 24/5 (Sunday from 11 a.m. until Friday at 10 p.m., and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.) during the regular semester, and 24/7 during finals. For more information, visit library.uncc.edu.
