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Services for Math/Physics/Astronomy Graduate Students Offered by the MPA Library

Welcome to the Math/Physics/Astronomy Library

The Math/Physics/Astronomy Library offers a multitude of resources to assist you in your research and teaching while you are at the University of Pennsylvania. Below is a brief overview of the services the library offers to MPA graduate students. Please contact Lauren Gala, Science Librarian, Math/Physics/Astronomy Library for a more in-depth introduction to the materials and services available to you.

Services for Teaching Assistants

Course Reserves

• To have course materials, readings, problem set solutions, etc. scanned and uploaded to a course web site or Blackboard site, contact Lauren Gala at (215) 746 -0228 or milaur@pobox.upenn.edu
• To have books and other materials placed on reserve for your students in the library, contact Linda Laws, Library Service Assistant, at (215) 898-8173 or llaws@pobox.upenn.edu

Using the Physical Library

The Math/Physics/Astronomy Library is located on the third floor of the David Rittenhouse Laboratory. The library houses an extensive collection of circulating books and non-circulating print journals and reference books, in addition to its many electronic resources. Graduate students are given a semester-long loan period and may renew materials in person or online.

Computing Resources include 4 Dell workstations equipped with CD-RW drives and ZIP drives. Access to the library's web site, online catalog, electronic resources, Internet, e-mail, Maple, MS Word, Excel, Access, Powerpoint, Front Page, EndNote, and Photoshop is provided.

Workshops covering a variety of databases and other electronic products are offered each semester by the Science & Engineering Libraries. They are targeted specifically to Penn's sci-tech researchers and are excellent introductions for new users, as well as being great refreshers for familiar resources.

Penn's Electronic Library

Electronic Information Resources Explore our digital databases, e-journals, e-books, e-reference works, and more. Click here for an overview of electronic scitech holdings at Penn, or peruse E-Resources in specific subject areas. Most resources are available off-campus via the Library's Proxy Server. For information on using specific resources from off-campus such as SciFinder Scholar, Beilstein or Gmelin CrossFire, please refer to http://www.library.upenn.edu/proxy/remoteuse.html or contact chemistry librarian Judith Currano at (215) 898-2177 or currano@pobox.upenn.edu

New Books Plus allows you to virtually peruse new books received, either by subject area or by campus library.

Obtaining Material Not Held at the Math/Physics/Astronomy Library

Even if the Math/Physics/Astronomy Library does not have the information that you need, we can get it for you from another campus location or another university's library. Visit http://gethelp.library.upenn.edu/reference/howgrad.html for a list of delivery and access services available to graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania.

• Penn Library Delivers items from other campus libraries to the Math/Physics/Astronomy Library for your convenience.

• BorrowDirect is an "expedited interlibrary loan" service of the libraries of Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Penn, Princeton, and Yale that lets you search a combined catalog and directly request books not currently available at Penn; most books arrive within 4 working days.

• Interlibrary Loan If you need a book or journal article that neither Penn nor any of its Borrow Direct partners owns, the Library's Interlibrary Loan department will be happy to help you obtain it in a timely fashion.

• Purchase Requests If the Math/Physics/Astronomy Library lacks a critical text or reference item in your area of research, we will consider purchasing it for our collection. Contact Lauren Gala(215) 746-0228, milaur@pobox.upenn.edu with purchase requests.

Need Further Assistance?

One-on-one personalized research consultations/orientations are available to you in your office, at the library, or over the phone or by e-mail. Contact Lauren Gala, Science Librarian - Math/Physics/Astronomy Library at (215) 746-0228, milaur@pobox.upenn.edu to set up an appointment.

Lauren Gala Science Librarian - Math/Physics/Astronomy Library
Email: milaur@pobox.upenn.edu
Phone: (215) 746-0228