Resources



The University Library contains over 3,800,000 volumes, constituting one of the more important collections in the South. It receives more than 34,000 periodicals annually, and more than 200,000 bound volumes of periodicals of permanent worth are available from the beginning of their publication. (You can browse the UNC Library Catalog via the World Wide Web.)

Through interlibrary borrowing, the Library can obtain unusual publications which it does not possess for the use of graduate students. Through the exchange of catalogue cards and the frequent delevery service, the resources of the Duke University Library are readily available, as are those of of North Carolina State University at Raleigh and The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Of particular value to Operations Research students is the Alfred Brauer Library of Physics and the Mathematical Sciences which is located in Phillips Hall, across from Operations Research offices. It consists of approximately 84,000 volumes, microfiche, technical reports and over 950 current journal subscriptions.


Academic Technology & Networks (ATN) provides the UNC community with a diverse array of research and instructional computing resources along with a pan-University infrastructure, which includes fiber optic backbone network access to resources, technical assistance, training for services and applications, and hardware and software site licenses. ATN enables desktop computers and workstations to interact with their Unix-based compute servers (including a Silicon Graphics Origin 2000 and a Sun Enterprise 600 workstation) for purposes such as personal and shared filespaces, printing, authentication, and scientific and statistical computing. In addition to campus-based resources, ATN provides access to remote resources such as supercomputing facilities (including the North Carolina Supercomputer Center in the Research Triangle Park) and online databases along with discovery, evaluation, and education services to assist the UNC community in locating and using these resources. ATN also maintains the popular Metalab (formerly SunSITE) information resource on the World Wide Web.

The Department of Operations Research has a network of Sun Sparc and UltraSparc unix workstations which can be accessed by students for instructional or research purposes. These include a dual-processor Ultra 2, an Ultra 1, a Sparc 10, and two Sparc 5 workstations. A computing laboratory is located within the Operations Research Department in 206/207 Smith Building to provide services exclusively to its graduate students. The laboratory contains an assortment of workstations, IBM-compatible computers with pentium processors and an HP4M+ laser printer, all of which are fully integrated into the departmental and university network. IBM PS/2s are also available in student offices.


The intellectual life of the University and the research activities of graduate students and faculty alike receive valuable encouragement and support from various institutes. These institutes do not operate as instructional agencies within the University; rather, they provide focal points for mission-oriented research.

Institues located on campus include the Institute of Marine Sciences, Institute for Environmental Studies, The University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center, The Carolina Population Center, The Sheps Center for Health Services Research and the Center for Urban and Regional Studies.