Audio-Visual Media
The audio-visual material in the Media Resource Library collection has been purchased in cooperation with various departments and is a shared resource intended for classroom instruction by faculty.
Video & Collaboration Services provides video related systems, technical services, planning, and consulting in support of educational and research goals at the University of Florida. Services include: videoconferencing, video production, streaming, and storage, and satellite uplinks and downlinks.
AT Testing and Evaluation provides the following services: scanning and scoring of exams, scan document development, gradebook service, placement testing, standardized test administration, and other resources.
Biomedical Media Services provides multimedia support services to the faculty, staff, and students of the Health Science Center, University of Florida, and Shands Hospital. Services include graphics, photography and film processing, digital imaging and printing, and television.
IFAS Communication Services provides UF/IFAS faculty, staff, and students with a full range of communication services and products, including graphic design, news and media relations, educational video, photography, distance education, media duplication, and educational media distribution.
Bookstores
Bookstores on the UF campus are managed by the Follett Higher Education Group and are part of the efollet.com bookstore network. Bookstore locations include the main bookstore in the Reitz Union, the Law School bookstore, Health Science Center bookstore, and Veterinary Medicine bookstore.
Campus Map and Campus Tours
The online campus map allows you to locate any UF building. You can also take an online virtual tour of the campus. The Office of Admissions provides Campus tours at 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. Call 392-1365 or fill out the online form to arrange a tour. Walking tours are available on Saturdays at 10:30 a.m. from the J. Wayne Reitz Union. Call 392-1649 for information.
Child Care and Schools
Baby Gator is the University of Florida's Educational Research Center for Child Development. It offers a high quality preschool and infant/toddler center for children of students, staff, and faculty of the university. In addition, Baby Gator provides research and training opportunities for students and faculty members in education, nursing, psychology, sociology, and other fields of study.
KinderCare operates a facility on the University of Florida campus locatred on the corner of Museum Road and Village Drive.
P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School, a unit in the College of Education of the University of Florida, was established in 1934 to be a center of educational innovation for students, K-12. The mission of a Developmental Research School is to serve as a vehicle for research, demonstration, and evaluation regarding teaching and learning while utilizing the resources available on a state university campus. For information and applications, call 392-1554.
Continuing Education
The University of Florida Division of Continuing Education (DOCE) develops and offers continuing education programs designed to meet a wide range of personal and professional educational and learning needs and makes available to all units of the University, effective and efficient services supporting continuing education programs originated by those units and funded from participant fees.
Correspondence Study and Distance Learning
The Department of Correspondence Study and Distance Learning provides time-tested correspondence study as well as high tech, on-line learning that includes an extensive curriculum of college credit courses, professional development opportunities, and high school courses.
TREEO
The Center for Training, Research, and Education for Environmental Occupations (TREEO), is a world leader in educational programming for people working in areas of environmental impact. Courses cover hands-on issues of pollution prevention and control, cutting edge information in management education, and in-depth policy development and response.
Conferences and Seminars
The Department of Conferences and Seminars provides program coordination and management services to the entire university community that span a spectrum from basic support to a turn-key development and implementation service.
Executive Education
The Leadership Development Institute is focused on leadership development that builds sustainable enterprises. The leadership development system is designed to help leaders at every level — Emerging, Experienced and Executive — transition successfully into greater levels of responsibility and impact.
Disability Resources
UF is required to make reasonable accommodations to the known physical and mental limitations of otherwise qualified individuals with disabilities. The UF Americans with Disabilities Act Compliance Office coordinates the accessibility of all areas of campus to persons with disabilities, and coordinates faculty and staff-related accommodations in the workplace. Information Sessions for academic faculty and student affairs staff are currently available.
The Disability Resources program in the Dean of Students Office coordinates accommodations for students in academic and student activity settings. Students must be registered with the Disability Resources program to be eligible to receive accommodations from the University of Florida.
Gator Lift provides fast, dependable and comfortable on campus transportation to members of the UF community with permanent and temporary disabilities.
International Resources
The mission of the UF International Center (UFIC) is to enhance the educational experience and environment of UF's students, faculty and staff by promoting a global perspective. UFIC does that by encouraging the discussion of international issues on campus, assisting UF students to study abroad, helping international students and faculty adjust to life in Gainesville and in many other ways.
UFIC can help faculty join in the internationalization of the campus and the curriculum, which is one of the highest priorities in UF's strategic plan, by assisting them to incorporate study abroad and international content in their courses, to find grant funds and to bring in speakers on international topics.
As home to the Title VI-funded Transnational and Global Issues Center, UFIC also supports international research, curriculum development and outreach activities. UFIC also houses the Peace Corps office on campus and the World Citizenship Program, which provides international internship opportunities to graduate students.
Currently located on the first floor of Grinter Hall, UFIC will be moving to the Hub when that building is renovated.
Libraries
The Libraries of the University of Florida form the largest information resource system in the state of Florida. There are nine UF library locations. All of the libraries serve the university's faculty and students, but each has a special mission to be the primary support of specific colleges and degrees programs, and thus houses collections specific to those disciplines. More information about each library can be obtained from the links below:
Purchasing
University Purchasing Division employees help University of Florida departments acquire material goods and services. Uniform procedures relating to the purchase of commodities and services needed in the operation of the university are presented in The Handbook on Business Procedures. This document references statutory requirements of the State of Florida, standard practices of the State University System and rules of the university. Purchasing requirements apply to all purchases of commodities and services whether funded by state appropriation, grants or auxiliaries.
Safety and Emergency Resources
Police Services
The University of Florida Police Department (UPD), located at the intersection of Museum Road and Newell Drive, provides service 24 hours a day, and is an integral part of the university's dedication to developing and maintaining a safe and secure campus through the cooperative efforts of many university departments and community organizations. The UPD publication, UF Together for a Safe Campus is available on their Web site.
All emergency situations involving crime in progress, medical emergency, or fire should be reported immediately to 9-1-1. All campus phones, including pay phones may be used to dial 9-1-1 at no charge. In addition, more than 200 Emergency Blue Phones are located throughout campus and in all parking garages.
Environmental Health and Safety
The Environmental Health and Safety Division (EH&S) is responsible for the implementation of programs to minimize injury to faculty, staff, students, and visitors, and to minimize damage to university property. EH&S includes numerous departments and services including Biological Safety, Fire Safety, Laboratory Safety, and Radiation Control. EH&S is also responsible for Emergency Preparedness.
The Natural Disaster/Hurricane Emergency Plan establishes procedures for implementation in preparation for, during, and following a hurricane or other natural disaster. Each major campus building has a designated Building Emergency Coordinator who is responsible for maintaining a written emergency plan that includes procedures for building evacuation and protection of building facilities and equipment.
University Press of Florida
University Press of Florida, a non-profit publishing house, is both a Type 1 Research Center in the State University System and a publishing business. The Press publishes scholarly books in the arts, humanities, and natural and social sciences and participates in the mission of the State University System through a publishing program that seeks to maintain the professional excellence of American university presses in general and to present the finest national and international scholarship in those academic areas in which we publish. In recognition of the State University System's educational mission and public role, the Press also publishes books of interest and significance for our region and state.