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Access to campus, national, and international computer networks is provided through the data networking services supported by UCNS. Campus connectivity is provided through the TCP/IP protocol which is supported on the central host systems and the broadband cable system that extends to most campus buildings. National and international data networks that are available include SURAnet, BITNET, NSFNET, and Internet. Connection to PEACHNET, the higher education network within Georgia, is also provided. Network applications supported include electronic mail, telephone and address directories, WWW information servers, Gopher information servers, FTP servers, discussion groups, library catalog and database access, and USENet news feeds.

To complement the University's varied hardware and software resources, UCNS provides consulting, support services, and training for faculty, staff, and students in the following areas: host systems computing, microcomputing, high-performance computing, computational chemistry, computational biology, computational physics, artificial intelligence, computer graphics/scientific visualization, UNIX and VMS workstations, departmental networking, site planning for departmental computing facilities, and hardware and software acquisition.

UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA BUSINESS OUTREACH SERVICES is an innovative, University-based extension effort that provides management training and technical assistance to small businesses, prospective entrepreneurs, and economic groups. Services are offered through a statewide network of nineteen offices. Supported by the University System of Georgia and the U.S. Small Business Administration, Business Outreach Services provides free consulting services, continuing education programs at minimal cost, and business research. The unit is comprised of four programmatic divisions: Small Business Development Center, Minority Business Division, Economic Development Services, and Business Expansion Support Services. Other business-related activities include: producing studies on local economic development; collecting and disseminating business data statewide; assisting new startup businesses by providing centralized office space and services; promoting international trade among small and medium-sized Georgia firms; advocating minority entrepreneurship and promoting basic services to the minority community; expanding business development and retention in rural communities; and providing geographic information systems (GIS) services for business and economic development.

THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA GERONTOLOGY CENTER is charged to coordinate and promote University activities relating to aging. The center's primary responsibilities are to coordinate graduate training and research, including a graduate level certificate program in gerontology, and to promote faculty development in gerontology. Faculty members from twenty-seven academic departments are associated with the center and oversee pre- and postdoctoral training and the application of knowledge to practice. The center currently supports four research foci: 1) the oldest-old; 2) cognition in normal aging and disease; 3) applied gerontology; and 4) demography. Among center activities are the annual graduate student convention, a Gerontology Outreach Program with the Georgia Center, and the Georgia Consortium on the Psychology of Aging with Emory, the Georgia Institute of Technology, the Medicial College of Georgia, and the Virginia Medical Centers in Atlanta and Augusta.

THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA LIBRARIES are composed of three major on-campus libraries: the Main Library, the Science Library, and the Law Library administered by the School of Law. Several small collections include those at the Curriculum Materials Center (Education), the Georgia Center for Continuing Education Library, the Veterinary Medicine reading room, and various lab collections. The UGA Libraries' system also includes libraries at the experiment stations in Griffin and Tifton and at the marine stations at Sapelo and Skidaway.

The UGA Library is the largest library in the state of Georgia and serves as the Regional Depository for federal government publications for the state of Georgia. It is a member of the prestigious Association of Research Libraries (ARL) consisting of the largest research libraries in North America and ranks in the top thirty-two of these libraries. The Libraries contain more than 3.3 million books, serials, and documents, plus many other items including manuscripts, photographs, drawings, music scores, audio/video materials, and newspapers. The map collection incorporates over 590,000 items, and the microform collection numbers more than 5.5 million. Collections support the University's instructional, research, and public service activities and are available to users on the campus and across the state.

An outstanding feature of the Main Library is the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, a repository of rare and priceless relics. Among the special collections are the works and memorabilia of Erskine Caldwell and Margaret Mitchell, the original Confederate Constitution, Confederate imprints, a notable Georgiana collection, many Southern historical manuscripts, and the sheet music of many well-known musicians. The

Richard B. Russell Memorial Library, an annex to the Main Library, houses the papers and memorabilia of the late Senator Russell, as well as the papers of former Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Senator Herman E. Talmadge, and many other elected officials and government appointees. The Peabody Award Archives house over 30,000 radio and television programs representing the best in broadcasting.

The University Libraries offer a variety of electronic databases. In addition to the main catalog, the online system GALIN supports an electronic encyclopedia and indexes to the journal literature of a number of disciplines. GALIN is readily available in the Libraries, across the campus network, or through dial access. Other databases are available through LIBRA, a Novell based file server that is connected to the campus network. Statistical databases are available through the Data Services unit on the 6th floor of the Main Library. Many government produced databases can be found in the Government Documents Department in the Main Library. More than 370,500 volumes are housed in the University's Law Library. Its collection of British Commonwealth materials is considered one of the finest of its kind in the nation.

THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY contains the most extensive collection of Georgia natural history artifacts and specimens and is one of the largest natural history museums in the Southeast. It ranks within the top 50 in the nation in terms of the size of its collections and the scope of its research and technical service programs. The museum has nine separate collection areas: Archaeology Collection (3.5 to 4 million artifacts and specimens), Botany Herbarium (200,000 plant specimens), Entomology Collections (600,000 pinned, 100,000 slide-mounted, and 30,000 alcohol-preserved insects, and the world's largest collection of ectoparasitic feather mites--over 5 million),Georgia State Forensic Anthropology Collections (demonstration materials for specialized training for law enforcement officers) , Geological Collections (10,000 economic geology ore specimens, 10,000 mineral specimens, and over 10,000 invertebrate and vertebrate fossils), Julian H. Miller Mycological Herbarium (25,000 fungi), Plant Microfossil Laboratory (worldwide collection of fossil pollen samples), Zooarchaeology Collection (4,200 comparative reference skeletons), and Zoological Collections (25,000 vertebrates, 5,000 corals, 400,000 fish, 25,000 amphibians and reptiles, 5,000 birds, and 14,000 mammals).

The Museum's collections are crucial to quality education in over 30 specialized graduate and undergraduate courses in the natural sciences at the University. Each year the Museum provides loans of educational materials and access to its collections to other institutions and individuals within the University System, regional primary and secondary schools, and various state agencies. While the Museum is primarily a regional research facility relating to Georgia and the Southeast, the scope of its operations are national and international. As a repository of the definitive collections of Georgia's historical, cultural, and natural heritage, the Museum's collections provide essential research resources and data bases for researchers nationwide. Each year the collections process hundreds of loans of artifacts, specimens, and records to other museums and scientists throughout the nation.

THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA PRESS was founded in 1938 as the publishing arm of the University of Georgia. Its primary mission is to support and enhance the University's place as a major research institution by publishing significant works of scholarship by national and international scholars and its own faculty. Since its founding the Press has published over a thousand new titles. With more than eight hundred in print, the Press publishes about eighty books each year in fields including American history and literature, African-American studies, legal history, history and culture of the South, environmental studies, and natural history.

The Press has more than doubled its publishing program over the past decade. While remaining essentially scholarly in nature and retaining its traditional editorial focus on history and literature, it also has a distinguished nationally recognized publishing program in fiction, poetry, and literary nonfiction. In recent years the Press has built on earlier strengths to become national and international in scope and recognition. It is now one of the preeminent University presses in the South and among the most competitive mid-size presses in the nation.

THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. was formed to serve the University of Georgia and enhance its excellence as a research institution. UGARF was incorporated under the laws of the State of Georgia as a nonprofit corporation on November 17, 1978. In a Memorandum of Understanding dated February 26, 1979, the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia authorized UGARF to serve as the official grantee for all contracts, grants, and gifts for the conduct of sponsored research at the University. External research grants and contracts are awarded to University faculty through The University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. Other research activities are supported by UGARF through a number of special programs such as Faculty Research Grants, Foreign Travel Grants, and Creative Research Awards.

UGARF is also the University's invention administration organization. The Invention Administration Agreement effective April 1, 1979, between the Board of Regents and UGARF assigns, on behalf of the University, all of its right, title, and interest in and to any inventions which result from activities of University personnel under the Patent Policy to UGARF. UGARF is organized to assist in the transfer of technology developed through the University's research programs or by University personnel to the benefit of the University of Georgia and the general public.

THE VETERINARY MEDICAL DIAGNOSTIC AND INVESTIGATIONAL LABORATORIES at Athens and Tifton process over 100,000 requests for assistance each year. The laboratories are staffed and equipped to provide diagnostic service to the Georgia Department of Agriculture, the Georgia livestock industry, and animal owners of Georgia through a policy of referral by practicing veterinarians.

THE VETERINARY MEDICAL EXPERIMENT STATION coordinates and conducts research on disease problems of food- and fiber-producing animals, including poultry and other avian species, and of companion animals. The research programs, which have applied, basic, and comparative medical orientation, are divided broadly into four main categories: infectious diseases, noninfectious diseases, diagnostic techniques, and therapeutic procedures. Research facilities are located within the College of Veterinary Medicine at Athens, in the Poultry Diagnostic and Research Center at Athens, and in the Veterinary Diagnostic Assistance Laboratories at Athens and Tifton. Opportunities for graduate training in the biomedical sciences, including biotechnology, are provided by the station's research programs.

THE MARILYN VINCENT MOTOR LEARNING LABORATORY was organized to conduct original research on motor behavior and to provide instructional activities for students studying motor behavior. The goals of the research program of the laboratory are both to contribute to theory about the acquisition of motor skills and to apply theory to instructional design. The laboratory is staffed by Ph.D. students in motor behavior.

THE CARL VINSON INSTITUTE OF GOVERNMENT is dedicated to improving the understanding, policy-making, and administration of government, and particularly of state and local government in Georgia. To accomplish its purposes, the Vinson Institute conducts a variety of continuing education programs for state and local officials, engages in an extensive research and publications program, offers technical assistance to public officials, and provides educational opportunities for public school teachers and others to improve the level of understanding about the structure and processes of government at all levels. Its various services are conducted through five divisions: Governmental Training, Governmental Research and Services, Human Services, Citizen Education, and Government Information Services. The institute cooperates with the Department of Political Science in offering the Master of Public Administration degree. International activities are an increasingly important outreach program of the Vinson Institute.