Welcome
The library hosts events, exhibits, and art 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.
Missing the Dickinson College Library? Now you can bring a little bit of the library to your Zoom meetings and video conference calls! Enhance your Zoom interactions with library themed backgrounds, now available to download. All that’s missing is the book smell and sounds of the Biblio Café!
You can check them out here:
Monthly Overview
Summer 2021
Building hours are:
Monday - Friday : 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday: Closed
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Use the main entrance on High St.; a current DC ID card is required.
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The lower level of the library and the lower entrance will be closed; items from that area can be requested at the Circulation Desk and will be retrieved by library staff.
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To request access to Archives and Special Collections, email archives@dickinson.edu.
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Library seating has been reduced to one person per worktable; furniture has been arranged to support social distancing.
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Library study rooms will be available for use by only one person at a time on a first come, first served basis.
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Prearranged contact free pick-up of library materials will be available in the inside lobby area starting Feb. 1. To request pick outside the doors email circ@Dickinson.edu.
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Everyone in the building will be expected to practice social distancing, adhere to the mask requirement and follow informational signs displayed throughout the building.
- A monitor inside the Library entrance indicates the Library building capacity and the current availability of space for users. Click on this link for current occupancy https://app.safespace.io/api/display/live-occupancy/8f8113d1?view=icon
Virtual Exhibits and Book Displays
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Virtual Book Display - Nonfiction for Nature Lovers
July 1 - 31
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New Digital Resources
Ongoing
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Featured Book of the Week
Ongoing
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Digital Book Exhibit: 60th Anniversary of MLK Visit
Ongoing
Scopus Replaces Web of Science on July 1
On July 1 Dickinson College will transition to the Scopus abstract and citation database from Web of Knowledge (including Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Science Citation Index).
Why are we moving to Scopus?
By making this change to Scopus, we will achieve substantial annual cost savings, while retaining a comparable database that is used by more than 5,000 academic, government, and corporate institutions, including many of our liberal arts college peers.
What is Scopus?
Like Web of Knowledge, Scopus is a curated abstract database that links researchers to scholarly literature across a wide variety of disciplines.
As a citation database, Scopus also provides tools for users to discover and analyze the connections between research. Researchers can find related documents by shared references, authors, and keywords; identify subject experts; track citations over time for a set of authors or documents; and assess trends in search results.
Questions? Contact your liaison librarian or email us at ask@dickinson.libanswers.com.
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Featured Book of the Week
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Entangled Life : How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures by Publication Date: 2020When we think of fungi, we likely think of mushrooms. But mushrooms are only fruiting bodies, analogous to apples on a tree. Most fungi live out of sight, yet make up a massively diverse kingdom of organisms that supports and sustains nearly all living systems. Fungi provide a key to understanding the planet on which we live, and the ways we think, feel, and behave.In Entangled Life, the brilliant young biologist Merlin Sheldrake shows us the world from a fungal point of view, providing an exhilarating change of perspective. Sheldrake's vivid exploration takes us from yeast to psychedelics, to the fungi that range for miles underground and are the largest organisms on the planet, to those that link plants together in complex networks known as the “Wood Wide Web,” to those that infiltrate and manipulate insect bodies with devastating precision.Fungi throw our concepts of individuality and even intelligence into question. They are metabolic masters, earth makers, and key players in most of life's processes. They can change our minds, heal our bodies, and even help us remediate environmental disaster. By examining fungi on their own terms, Sheldrake reveals how these extraordinary organisms—and our relationships with them—are changing our understanding of how life works.
Book Display Title - July 2021
Nonfiction for Nature Lovers
Virtual Book Display
From virtual bookshelf to the backyard and beyond -- check out these popular nonfiction books on nature and ecology.
Click on a book cover to access it online through Jumpstart. Interested in more? Consult with a librarian by emailing ask@dickinson.libanswers.com
Gallery Book Display - July 2021
