The UCI Libraries have holdings of more than 2 million volumes and more than 19,000 active serial subscriptions. Computer access to the entire UC Library system, which houses more than 23 million volumes, is available through on-line catalogue. An efficient interlibrary loan service makes the UC system holdings readily accessible. Through the Document Delivery Service, graduate students may order books and articles online and receive the materials in their office mailboxes. The rapidly expanding California Digital Library also augments library offerings.
In the library's Department of Special Collections, students will find non-circulating holdings. Of particular interest to students of French: a special collection of seventeenth and eighteenth-century French literature, the René Wellek collection of the history of criticism, a collection of contemporary poetry, the papers of Jacques Derrida, Paul de Man, Wolfgang Iser, Murray Krieger and J. Hillis Miller.
The Humanities Research Institute for the University of California is located on the UCI campus. This institute attracts dozens of visiting scholars each year, and generates seminars and conferences of interest to graduate students. A few Fellowships are available for qualified students in the advanced stages of dissertation writing whose topics fit the HRI programs.
The Humanities Research Center provides funding for both individual and collaborative research projects, some by graduate students. It also has funds for dissertation research and for attendance at conferences.
