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The entrance to the library is located on the third floor of the Sapp Center for Science Teaching and Learning and is accessible via the building's passenger elevator, located to the left as one enters the building from Lomita Drive. The library occupies much of the third floor and all of the fourth floor of the Sapp Center, and a passenger elevator makes both floors accessible to library users via card-reader access. A guest access card is available from the circulation desk.