This late-generation software controls a database of more than 500,000 records and is available from more than 85 terminals and personal computers in the libraries. It can also be accessed directly from residence hall rooms and campus offices. Indeed, anyone with computer and modem can access the catalog via telephone lines or the Internet from anywhere in the world. The Internet is accessed through the campus backbone network. McFarlin Library, the central facility of the system, is open more than 95 hours each week.
Open stacks provide easy access to materials.
One main service point supports access to print and a growing collection of electronic resources. An automated interlibrary loan service, bolstered by courier service between major Oklahoma libraries, is available to all of the university's students, faculty, and staff. The Federal Document Depository collection, which consists of 480,000 items issued by Congressional and judicial and executive departments, includes a complete file of U.S. census reports. The document unit also supports the growing body of information issued in electronic format by the government. More than 110,000 rare books and 3,500 linear feet of literary and historical manuscripts are shelved in Special Collections.