Project Room

The Project Room will be CLOSED for the Summer 2012 term due to renovations in the Orozco Mural Corridor.

The Baker-Berry Library offers a unique Project Room as part of our course reserve service. Located on the northeast side of the Reserve Corridor, the room provides the following features for students working with materials placed on course reserve:

• Open Reserve Shelving – Students can browse all reserve material placed on a course, including runs of journals.
• Copier Room - Provides a secure copying environment within the room for non-circulating materials, containing an Indus flatbed scanner and an Aficio copier.
• Two study carrels and several tables for study space.

Making Materials Available Using the Project Room

Submit a course reserve reading list form and indicate that the material should be housed in the Project Room. Material can be designated as non-circulating or given a 2, 4, or 24 hour loan. Items can be checked out at the Baker Reserve Desk. All material placed on reserve for a course (print, media, or online) will be integrated into a single course reserve list.

Examples of Project Room Uses

• Students in Art History consult all material placed on course reserve using the Project Room’s open shelving.
• Students in Religion classes researched original source texts in order to produce a reader of excerpts from the writings of both classical and contemporary scientists, addressing the issue of the relation of science and religion. Open shelving in the Project Room provided the works of scientists ranging from Galileo and Copernicus to Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.
• Students in Classics, as part of an introductory archaeology course, researched ancient Roman coins. The students followed the coins’ history through multi-volume sets of Roman Imperial Coinage and Coins of the Roman Empire, usually housed at the Storage Library.
• Students in Film Studies consulted sources on the open shelves to examine course material relating to the history of the Hollywood studio system, researching the context of film and social histories of 20th century American culture.

Additional Material Housed in the Project Room

There are some unique collections housed in the Project Room on the back wall shelving towards the far end of the room.

• The Staff Development Collection (SDC) is a group of resources that circulate to any Dartmouth library card holder and includes titles in the following genres:  Professional Development, Dartmouth History, Personal Development, Cultural Awareness, and Continuing Education.  Formats in the collection  include books, DVD's, videos and books-on-tape.    http://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/home/committees/sdc/collection.html
• The Career Development Collection is adjacent to the SDC and focuses on resources related to career development and job searching.
• In addition, there are some reference materials such as dictionaries and style guides available for use in the room.
• Items can be checked out at the Baker Reserve Desk.