Kresge Physical Sciences Library houses the collections and supports the research, teaching, and library service needs of the physical science research community at Dartmouth. Located on the 3rd floor of Fairchild Hall, one of the four buildings in the Fairchild Physical Sciences Center, Kresge offers convenient access to researchers in many of Dartmouth's science departments.

Kresge Library is the primary library for faculty, students, and researchers in chemistry, earth sciences, environmental studies, and physics and astronomy. Mathematics and computer science faculty and students rely primarily upon the Cook Mathematics Collection, housed on the 3rd floor of Baker-Berry Library. Additionally, researchers in many science disciplines and in interdisciplinary research areas make extensive use of collections in Dana Biomedical Library and Feldberg Business & Engineering Library.

The Fairchild Center complex, renovated in the late 1990s through the generosity of the Sherman Fairchild Foundation, now enjoys study space, relaxation and performance space, and an intimate connection between the classroom, office and laboratories of the four adjoining buildings. Kresge Library was originally established in 1973, with the support of the Kresge Foundation, through the merger of several departmental libraries and the incorporation of the science collections formerly housed in Baker Library.