KITP Library Facilities
KITP Reading Room
The KITP maintains a small collection of essential journals and books
in room 2303. Consult the book catalog for holdings.
Current journals
are displayed near the door, while back issues are shelved. Current
(paper) preprints are also displayed near the door for a few weeks,
and then discarded.
Suggestions for acquisitions are welcome, as
are donations.
Books are shelved according to call number (according
to the US Library of Congress system).
Books and journals may be borrowed under these guidelines:
- Try to keep a book for no longer than one month.
- Library books may not leave the building.
- Fill out the information on the clipboard by the door.
- Please do not reshelve books and journals. Simply
place them on the cart or tables.
Preprint Archive
In most fields of physics the
Preprint Archive, created at Los Alamos, is the preferred means to distribute
preprints.
UCSB Main Library
For extensive holdings of books and journals, you need to go to the
UCSB Main Library, in the center
of campus, a 5 minute
walk from the KITP building. The Sciences-Engineering Library
(SEL) is on
the second floor of the older north wing in the Main Library. The people
at the SEL Desk
(east side 2nd floor near elevators) can help you find things. You check out books at the
Loan Desk in the ground floor lobby; you must first obtain a library card
by identifying yourself as a KITP member.
Many journals are available as
Electronic Journals.
From any computer on campus, you can also access journals online through their own
website under UCSB subscription privileges.
Latest paper journals are placed in racks
(east side SEL), except for a few hot items such as
Science and Nature which must be asked for at
the SEL Desk. Books and bound journals are shelved in the stacks
to your north, according to the Library of Congress system, so
- QA1-QA999 Mathematics,
- QB1-QB999 Astronomy,
- QC1-QC999 Physics.
The library copy machines are money-operated; you can
also buy a card for heavy use.
Brochures about the many library services are available near the SEL Desk.
The catalog for the UCSB Main Library is online
as Pegasus.
The
Interlibrary Loan service
is available for materials not present at UCSB. For instance, they can email you
a copy of an obscure journal article.
The library catalog for the whole UC system is available online
as Melvyl.
Melvyl is more powerful, but Pegasus additionally knows whether UCSB books
are on the shelf or checked out.
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