Baker-Berry Library Tour Information

The Baker-Berry Library offers a number of tour options throughout the year to faculty, staff, students and visitors. We hope you’ll take advantage of the tours to learn more about the Library, its services, and collections.

Arrange a Group Visit to Any Library

Baker Bell Tower Tours

Baker-Berry opens the Bell Tower eight times during the year to allow visitors an opportunity to enjoy a campus view from above the trees. The self-guided tower tour/climb is very popular; especially during First Year Family Weekend. Approximately 3000 visitors experience the tour each year.
To learn more about the history of the bell tower and upcoming tour dates, please visit the Baker Library Bell Tower web site.

José Clemente Orozco’s Epic of American Civilization

The Epic of American Civilization, painted by the Mexican artist José Clemente Orozco between 1932 and 1934 is in the reserve corridor of Baker Library. The mural covers the history of the Americas from the migration of the Aztecs into central Mexico to the development of our modern industrialized society, the mural is composed of twenty-four individual panels, or "scenes," and covers approximately 3,200 square feet.

View the mural whenever the reserve room is open .

Click here to download a pdf file of the Hood Museum of Art and Dartmouth College Library free brochure entitled Orozco at Dartmouth.
Click here, then here, to download the sections of the visitor's guide from the brochure.

Tours of the mural are provided free of charge by the Hood Museum. Both adult and school tours tours can be arranged by contacting the Hood Tour Coordinator at least one month in advance of the tour date requested by e-mail hood.museum.tours@dartmouth.edu or phone (603) 646-1469. Click here for more information about the museum's school programs.

Experience the Epic of American Civilization with an Audio Tour.

The Hood Museum and Dartmouth College Library collaborated to create an audio tour as a new way to experience the José Clemente Orozco murals in the Baker Reserve Corridor. Content for the audio tour was prepared by Mary Coffey, Assistant Professor of North American and Latin American Art at Dartmouth.
Individuals interested in listening to the audio tour can borrow iPods at the Reserves Desk or download one of several audio files from the Hood Museum website.

New Employee Library Tours

Did you know you can borrow movies from the Library and attend library workshops for free? If not, you may be interested in attending a New Employee Library Tour.

Library tours for new Dartmouth employees are coordinated through Human Resources and generally happen every other Monday at 1:30 PM. The purpose of the tour is to introduce new employees to the Dartmouth College Library and to its many services. At the conclusion of the tour, employees have an opportunity to activate their library cards and begin using the services.

For more information or to schedule an employee tour, please contact Kelly Cusick with Human Resources.

Tours Offered Throughout the Year

The Library participates in the College’s First-Year Orientation program by offering tours of Baker-Berry Library to our incoming first-year undergraduates. In addition to these pre-arranged tours, we are also happy to offer tours to students, staff, faculty and alumnae, as well as visitors to the College, upon request.
Please contact the Baker-Berry Library reference desk at 603.646.2704 or email Baker-Berry.Library.Reference@Dartmouth.edu for information. For high school class visits please see the information under Arranging Your Visit.