Welcome to Dartmouth College Libraries! Please consult this site to help you become familiar with Dartmouth Libraries and identify key services and personal contacts you may find helpful in your first weeks at Dartmouth.

Libraries at Dartmouth

• Map of Libraries
• Library Hours
• The Libraries at Dartmouth

Digital Resources at Dartmouth

The Dartmouth College Library website integrates digital information resources and services to support scholarship, research and education.

Library Catalog

Search the Library Catalog
The Dartmouth College Library Catalog is the access point to everything the library owns. Search for books and journals, both print and electronic, videos, maps, manuscripts and more.

eResources

eResources is a tool which organizes all the Web-based resources owned or licensed by the library - online encyclopedias, electronic journals and books, indexes to journal articles, databases, and more. Every eResource also has a Catalog record, so you can think of eResources as the electronic subset of the Catalog. eResources are arranged so that you can browse by subject or search for a specific resource by title.

Library Services

Library Services lists educational and research support services including workshop opportunities, library instruction, reference help, research tools, document delivery/ILL and digital publishing initiatives.

About the Library

About the Libraries puts you in contact with library staff and individual libraries on campus, provides directions, maps, borrowing procedures, and hours of operation, and links to Library News.

How Do I?

Find answers to commonly asked questions regarding reference and research, locating materials, and hours of operation and locations of libraries.

Accessing Materials

Putting materials on Reserve:

Faculty may place course materials "on reserve" at any of the Dartmouth libraries. Most reserve materials may be checked out for 2 hours and renewed if no one else needs the material.

Document Delivery/Interlibrary Loan

Borrow books and other materials and obtain journal articles from Dartmouth libraries and from collections around the world.

• Average turnaround times: from Dartmouth collections (48 hours); from other libraries' collections (7-10 days)
• Submit requests electronically
• Receive journal articles/book chapters in digital format
• Renewals possible

Borrow Direct Service

• Borrow books from the combined library collections of six Ivy League schools.

• Average turnaround time: 3-5 days
• Submit and review requests electronically

View list of new materials acquired by the Library

• New Acquisitions . View the list of materials recently acquired by the library. Lists are arranged by subject, by Library and by material type.

Set Up Your Library Record

• Set up your Library PIN number. Your PIN number will give you access to your library record - see next item below.
• View your library record and renew items online . Use this feature to list items you have checked out, renew materials online and update personal information, including your PIN.

Library Borrowing Privileges

• Faculty
• Research Assistants - A professor may designate a Dartmouth/DHMC affiliate as a research assistant (RA) to check out materials for the professor.
• Employee Families
  

Faculty Support in Research and Teaching

• Liaisons : Librarians who are subject specialists act as liaisons to academic departments and programs on research and curricular needs. Both students and faculty can contact their liaison to make an appointment for research consultation or to ask reference questions. These subject liaisons are also available to work with faculty to provide library research sessions for classes as well as other methods of integrating research and information technology into the curriculum.
• Library Instruction/Research Skills for your students. Arrange instruction for your students. Options: Librarian goes to your class, hands-on instruction session in a library computer class room, librarian participation in your course web site (Blackboard or other course web site), Ask a Librarian email service, reference desk hours, and more.
• Library Workshops
• Keep current in research with table of content services and/or database alerting services.
• Scholar Studies, Lockers, Study Rooms and other reservable space in the libraries.

Manage Your References

• Bibliographic reference management programs

Technology in Teaching

Off-campus access to Digital Library resources

Virtual Private Network (VPN) documentation

Jones Media Center

The Jones Media Center provides facilities, equipment and support for viewing and creating digital media. JMC collections include more than 5,000 videotapes and DVDs and thousands of newspapers, periodicals, government documents, and personal papers in microformats such as microfilm and microfiche. Twenty individual carrels and two project rooms are available for viewing and editing video materials.

Academic Computing

Academic Computing fosters innovation and excellence in research and in the curriculum. We advise and assist faculty and students in the use of information technology for the creation, organization, analysis, and presentation of scholarly, scientific, and curricular resources. Academic Computing is a division of Peter Kiewit Computing Services (PKCS).