Visitor Information

The Nelson Poynter Memorial Library, serving the University of South Florida St. Petersburg's campus community expected to exceed 8,000 students by 2008. Located in Bayboro Harbor, the Library is an inviting place for students, faculty, and campus visitors to read, relax, research, or study.

Poynter Library's over 230,000 volume collection features business, education, liberal arts, and marine science with recent additions including the latest titles in management, history, and current affairs Literature selections range from classics such as Melville's Moby Dick to the latest award-winning novels. A children's collection features outstanding juvenile and young adult books.

Poynter Library's Special Collections department offers outstanding collections of rare books, oral histories, and local history photographs and documents. Notable collections include the John C. Briggs Collection of Ichthyology and Natural History, the David Hubbell Mark Twain Collection, the Miller Family Collection of Presidential Signatures and Documents, and the Papers of Nelson Poynter.

The library subscribes to more than 800 periodicals and newspapers, including Science, The Economist, Foreign Affairs, and local and national newspapers. Over 10,000 electronic journals and newspapers augmenting these print collections are available through library computers.

We offer visual aids through our ADA Access Room, and provide computing services for registered students through our student use computing area. Students also have the option to connect to online resources through our Wireless Network for laptops which is available on all floors of the library.

If you have any questions or comments on how to improve services, please use our Online Suggestion Form to share your thoughts with us.

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