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The library hosts a variety of events, exhibits, and displays throughout the year. These enhance the cultural and academic life of the Dickinson community by illuminating resources and research activity, and promoting scholarship and creative endeavors on campus. Student photography, treasures from the archives, sculptures and artwork: you can find it all here, so don't forget to take a break from your studying to check out the latest.

To learn more about reserving library spaces for events or exhibits, please review our guidelines.

Monthly Overview

June 2025

Building Hours 


Displays

  • Juneteenth
  • Timely Topics: Alumni Publications

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Equity, Inclusion and Belonging at Waidner-Spahr Library


The library is committed to building a welcoming and inclusive environment where all members of the Dickinson College community have equitable opportunities to thrive. 

 

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Weekly Calendar

Cover Art - The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
Cover Art - Juneteenth
Cover Art - Black Futures
Cover Art - Twelve Years a Slave
Cover Art - Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation & Reconstruction
Cover Art - Unsung: Unheralded Narratives of American Slavery & Abolition
Cover Art - Barracoon: The Story of the Last
Cover Art - Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing
Cover Art - Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery
Cover Art - The Warmth of Other Suns
Cover Art - Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America
Cover Art - A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom
Cover Art - I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
Cover Art - Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
Cover Art - A Black Women's History of the United States
Cover Art - Repair: Redeeming the Promise of Abolition
Cover Art - Radical Reparations: Healing the Soul of a Nation
Cover Art - On Juneteenth
Cover Art - The Underground Railroad
Cover Art - The Black Agenda: Bold Solutions for a Broken System
Cover Art - Between the World and Me
Cover Art - Illusions of Emancipation: The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery
Cover Art - Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
Cover Art - To Raise up a Nation: John Brown, Frederick Douglass, and the Making of a Free Country
Cover Art - How to Be an Antiracist
Cover Art - Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People
Cover Art - Reparations and Reparatory Justice: Past, Present, and Future