University of Florida Library West

Library West
The Humanities and Social Sciences Library at the University of Florida
General information
Type	Academic library
Address	1545 W. University Ave.
Town or city	Gainesville, Florida 32611
Coordinates	29°39′4.946″N 82°20′34.324″W / 29.65137389°N 82.34286778°W / 29.65137389; -82.34286778
Opened	1967
Renovated	2003-2006
Website
http://cms.uflib.ufl.edu/librarywest/

Library West is the major library of the University of Florida's George A. Smathers Libraries system. Its collections consist of material on the humanities and social sciences, as well as African studies and Asian studies resources. The Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica special collection on Jewish studies is also part of the collection.

Library West primarily serves the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Warrington College of Business Administration. It is the largest of the seven Smathers Libraries at UF. The other major library is the Marston Science Library, which holds collections on agriculture, engineering, mathematics, and the natural and physical sciences.

The library is located at the north end of the Plaza of the Americas, at the Campus Historic District in the northeastern part of campus. The library is colloquially referred to as "Lib West" or "Club West" by some students.

Library West was first constructed in 1967 and was originally designated as the "Graduate Research Library." Library East (now Smathers Library) was at the same time designated as the undergraduate library. However, in the following decades the two buildings' collections were integrated together and Library West became established as the social sciences and humanities library on campus.