In 1958, María Ana Garza Barrientos obtained her Biology degree. She was one of the first students at the College of Biological Sciences and the second one to obtain a degree from this College.
Biol. Garza Barrientos founded the College’s Phycological Herbarium. The collection includes more than 7000 specimens from all over the world, including algae from Italy, Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, France, and Canada.
For over 20 years, Biol. Garza Barrientos taught the courses of general botany, plant histology, and plant anatomy. She was the College’s Doyenne, and in 1984 she was named Professor Emeritus of the UANL. She was also an advisor to the Marine Biology Department of the National Mexican Marine. In 2001, the UANL gave her an Honoris Causa Ph.D.
The Library “Biol. María Ana Garza Barrientos” was inaugurated on December 3, 2003. This library directly supports the teaching and research that is done at the College. The library is a dynamic organism that locates, analyzes, gathers, organizes, preserves, and provides access to the information resources that support the different educational programs imparted.
Horario de Servicio:
Lunes a Viernes: 8:00–20:00 hrs.
Sábado: 9:00–14:00 hrs.
The library operates on the days specified by the Academic-Administrative Calendar of UANL.
The library has the following amenities:
$1· 102 individual study modules
$1· 2 group study rooms with white board (capacity for 6 users each)
$1· 2 quiet study tables (capacity for 6 students each)
$1· Qualified librarians trained by the UANL General Diractory of Libraries
$1· Automatization under the CÓDICE system, developed by UANL.
The library has access to the Electronic Catalogue and the UANL Digital Libraries Data Bases, which allow users to consult full text, abstracts, and citation indexes from periodicals, conference proceedings, technical reports, books, and theses.
Through these data bases, our users can access more than 70 electronic resources that contain 32,800 periodicals, 20,000 books, and more than 1 million graduate theses.
Our users also have access to the UANL Digital Collection, which includes more than 13 thousand documents in Spanish, Italian, French, and Latin from the 16th to 19th centuries. The Digital Collection also includes undergraduate and graduate theses generated in the UANL.
Bibliographic material acquired for the Biol. María Ana Garza Barrientos Library
Coordinator
C.P. Jesús Adrián Roldán Orozco
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