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ABOUT THE LIBRARIES
The libraries of the University and Jepson Herbaria have been combined.
The Jepson library was founded in 1950 with renowned botanist Willis Linn
Jepson's extensive personal botanical library that contains literature
considered rare in his time, let alone the present day. The collection has
grown with gradual acquisitions and donations from former Curators and
associates of the Jepson Herbarium (including Rimo Bacigalupi, Lincoln
Constance, and Mary Bowerman). It is a full-scale research library with a
collection that is both broad and deep in scope.
The geographic scope of the library is world-wide, but the main focus is
California. Of particular value are early California journals such as the
Bulletins of the California Academy of Sciences, many of which were lost
at the Academy during the San Francisco earthquake and fires of 1906.
Rare publications for California botany such as Erythea, Zoe, and
Jepson's Flora of Middle California are critical resources that have been
extensively used in the production of the a new edition of the standard
flora for California, The Jepson Manual that was published in December
2011.
The library collection contains over 10000 volumes, a rare book
collection, a reprint collection, and over 150 botanical periodicals. The
collection includes general botanical works, taxonomic monographs, an
extensive flora collection, biographies of botanists and other
naturalists, and a small collection of gardening and ethnobotanical books.
The collection does not circulate but is available to members of the
public for use in our reading room.
VISITORS
This is an internal research collection. The library is open only
to in-house staff, students working under the sponsorship of the
Herbaria, and visiting researchers. New visiting researchers need
to make an appointment with Amy Kasameyer to become familiar
with the idiosyncrasies of filing in the library. Outside
students or members of the general public that want to look at a
book currently checked out from the BioScience Library to the
Herbaria Library must request a recall from the BioScience Library
If you have questions, please contact Amy Kasameyer.
BOOKS
Books may not be taken out of the Herbarium proper, i.e., rooms
keyed with the Herbarium master key. Amy Kasameyer has the keys to the
locked cases. Andrew Doran has a spare key. If you need to use a book at
your desk for a short period of time, please leave a drop tag in
its place.
JOURNALS
Journals may not be taken out of the library except to the
photocopy machine in room 1001.
MAPS
Maps and atlases may not be taken out of the library. Please put
a droptag in the file when you take out a map so that you can
refile it when you are done studying it.
WIRELESS
Let us know if you want guest access to the AirBears campus wireless network.
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