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Jeffrey Katz
Director of Libraries and Dean of Information Services
“Every day we work at
helping students become more skilled and productive. Every day we see students
gain confidence from working with the staff and the Library’s powerful
resources. It is our job—and our delight—to actively promote this
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The mission of the Charles P. Stevenson
Jr. Library is to be an active partner in the intellectual work of Bard's students,
faculty, and staff; to develop collections and services that help all users
become more resourceful, more independent and more original scholars; and to take a
campus leadership role in thoughtfully applying emerging media to the task
of turning information into knowledge.
The Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library
complex comprises the original Hoffman Library and the connected Kellogg Library.
As a result of a generous gift from trustee Charles
P. Stevenson Jr., Bard's library complex consists of the Charles P. Stevenson
Jr. Library, designed
by the architectural firm of Robert Venturi, a winner of the Pritzker Prize,
and the Hoffman and Kellogg Libraries. '
The Center
for Curatorial Studies library contains a research collection of
approximately 16,000 books and exhibition catalogues on contemporary
art subjects, and books on modern art history, theory, and criticism. |
The resources of the Stevenson Library and the "satellite" libraries
in the Levy Economics Institute, Center
for Curatorial Studies, and Bard Graduate
Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture include 280,000
volumes and more than four thousand journals available in print or online.
In addition, online databases central to all the disciplines in Bard's
curriculum provide access to indexes and abstracts. Users may consult these and online newspapers,
texts, encyclopedias, and dictionaries from the library's more than 50
computer stations, any public lab, most dormitory rooms, and off campus anywhere
in the world. A writing and instruction lab funded by the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation makes available both PC and Macintosh computers equipped with Microsoft Office
Suite and other applications.
The Bard Graduate Center
for Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture library, which houses
over 40,000 volumes and subscribes to over 200 periodicals.
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ReserveWeb, an online service, makes the full
text of many course reserve readings available 24 hours a day, seven days a week,
from any location. The Nesuhi Ertegun Music Listening Rooms contains a growing
collection of CDs, audiotapes, and records, as well as facilities for group
study and for viewing videos, slides, videodiscs, and microforms.
In addition to the collections supporting the academic programs, the library houses several
special collections: the complete personal library of the
late Hannah Arendt, political theorist and philosopher, and her husband, the late
Heinrich Bluecher, who taught philosophy for many years at Bard; the Bard
family papers, which are housed with the College's archives; and the
Senior Project collection, which consists of the culminating work of Bard seniors since 1938.
In recent years the library has received substantial gifts from the estates
of Marius Bewley, a noted literary critic, and Olin Dows, a painter in the Federal Art Project.
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