28 / GENERAL INFORMATION Extensive software is provided for batch processing supporting the major high-level languages, including ALGOL, ASSEMBLER, COBOL, FORTRAN, LISP, PASCAL, and PL/I; the INQUIRE data base manage- ment system; MARK IV and EASYTRIEVE file handlers and report generators; student-oriented compilers and interpreters, including ASSIST, PASCAL, PL/C, SPITBOL, WATBOL, and WATFIV; most major statistical packages, including BMDP, SAS, SPSS, and TROLL; text-editing programs such as ATMS, DCF, and SCRIPT with spelling-checker capabilities; a local SCRIPT-based formatter for producing theses and dis- sertations; libraries of scientific and mathematical routines, including IMSL and the HARWELL library; graphics programs such as GDDM, Gould plotting software, PLOT79, SAS/GRAPH, and SURFACE II; fi- nancial spreadsheets and modellers such as FSCALC and IFPS; mini- and microcomputer support; and many other program packages, local and IBM utilities, and special-purpose languages. More information is available through the NERDC's Guidebook for New Users, the NERDC's monthly newsletter (/Update), volumes of the NERDC Users' Manual, and NERDC User Services at 107 Space Sci- ences Research Building, (904) 392-2061, SUNCOM 622-2061. Center for Instructional and Research Computing Activities (CIRCA) The Center for Instructional and Research Comput- ing Activities (CIRCA) provides a variety of comput- ing services for University of Florida students and fac- ulty. CIRCA provides consulting, programming and analysis, data base design and implementation, statistical analysis, equipment repair, data entry serv- ices, open-shop unit-record equipment, interactive terminals, and remote-batch operations which are available at several locations across the UF campus. CIRCA operates two VAX 11/780 computers for in- structional use, each with eight megabytes of real memory, an RM80 124-megabyte system drive and an RP07 516-megabyte user drive, and a TU78 tape drive, and a VAX 11/750 computer with 5 megabytes of real memory, and two RAGO disk drives with 205 mega- bytes of real memory. The machines communicate via DECNET and run the VMS operating system. Termi- nals are connected through a Gandalf port selector providing local and remote terminal access to both NERDC and CIRCA computers. Dial-up facilities are also provided. Software includes APL, BASIC, BMDP, CERRITOS graphics, COBOL, FORTRAN, IMSL, MIN- ITAB, PASCAL, SNOBOL, SPICE, TSP, and support for IMLAC and GIGI graphics terminals. Additional information is available from the CIRCA consultant on duty in 411 Weil Hall, University of Florida, (904) 392-0906, SUNCOM 622-0906. UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES The Library system consists of two central units, Li- brary West and Library East, and branch libraries serv- ing the Colleges of Architecture, Education, Engineer- ing, Fine Arts, and Law, as well as the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, the J. Hillis Miller Health Center, the Departments of Chemistry and Music, and the P.K. Yonge Laboratory School. In addition, reading room facilities have been provided for jour- nalism and Communications, Physical Education, Health and Recreation, Physics, and the dormitory areas. The Libraries' holdings exceed 2.3 million cataloged volumes, more than 2 million microform units, and extensive collections of ephemera and uncataloged newspaper runs. The Documents Department is a re- gional depository for United States government pub- lications, and a depository for the European Com- munities and the State of Florida. The Map Library maintains over 326,000 maps and 145,000 aerial photographs, the largest collection in the Southeast. Research resources of national significance are held by subject and special collections: the Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica, the Baldwin Library, which emphasizes children's books printed in English before 1900, The Belknap Collection for the Performing Arts, the University Archives, and the Latin American Col- lection, which contains the most comprehensive Caribbean collection held by an American university library. The Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts conserves a heterogeneous collection of books with particular strength in the early English eighteenth century, New England literature before 1900, Sir Walter Scott, contemporary British and American po- etry, and the history of printing. The papers of Mar- jorie Kinnan Rawlings, John D. MacDonald, Margaret Dreier Robins, and a partial collection of the papers of Zora Neal Hurston are preserved together with impor- tant Caribbean research materials such as the "Rochambeau Papers," the "Jeremie Papers," and the Medina Latin American Bibliographical Collection. The P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History, consisting of manuscripts, maps, books, ephemera, prints, photographs, and microfilm, forms the most complete research collection of Floridiana available. Its Spanish Florida Borderlands Collection of more than 1% mil- lion documents in microform is the largest United States Borderlands collection for any geographical area in the nation. The main reference and bibliographic collection, through which access is provided to computerized databases, basic bibliographies, abstracting and in- dexing services, and catalogs of other libraries, is lo- cated on the first floor of Library West. MAJOR ANALYTICAL INSTRUMENTATION CENTER (MAIC) The Major Analytical Instrumentation Center (MAIC) was established in 1982 to help make avail- able complex modern analytical instrumentation and to promote its efficient usage on the campus and in the state. This is accomplished by coordinating cam- puswide usage, helping to provide resources for maintenance, upgrading existing instruments and de- veloping new techniques, planning purchases of ma- jor new instruments, training and supervising users, and providing professional scientists to supervise the solution of individual problems. Center personnel also direct users to other campus facilities, if neces- sary, For example, the Institute of Food and Agricul- tural Sciences (IFAS) and the Department of Chemis- try both have a number of analytical facilities that are available to some users. The instruments involved include several electron microscopes (TEM, SEM, AEM) with full analytical and imaging capabilities, instruments directed toward sur- face analysis (i.e., AES, ISS, SIMS and XPS, RBS, PIXE and NRA), and several mass spectrometers.