Research & Learning, Arts & Sciences
We advance research in the arts, humanities, social sciences, STEM, and interdisciplinary studies by supporting faculty and students.
Research Data Services
Research Data Services is dedicated to supporting data-intensive and computational research, teaching, and learning across the institution. Our team offers specialized expertise in all aspects of data management, from developing data management plans for sponsored projects to facilitating access to public data repositories. We provide comprehensive support for computational scholarship and data science, including project scoping, data wrangling, analysis, modeling, and visualization. Additionally, we license and host datasets for Dartmouth, and offer advanced tools and support for text analysis, bibliometrics, and more. As the library’s unofficial AI team, we also bring specialized knowledge in artificial intelligence to enhance research and data-driven initiatives.
Library, Digital Strategies
Digital by Dartmouth Library
Digital by Dartmouth Libraries (DxDL) provides free, digital access to nearly three hundred thousand items from our collections — from classical texts to medieval manuscripts to scientific accounts to audiovisual materials. We work collaboratively across the Libraries, Dartmouth, and other communities to develop unique digital collections.
Digital Library Technologies Group
The Digital Library Technologies Group (DLTG) supports technologies for the Dartmouth Libraries that advance research, teaching and learning at Dartmouth. We partner with colleagues across the Libraries and Dartmouth to build, procure, and or implement technology solutions that are sustainable and support the Libraries’ academic mission and strategic goals.
Library Administration
The Dartmouth Libraries Administration team works together with colleagues across the libraries and Dartmouth to champion the Libraries and support library staff.
Collection Management and Preservation
The mission of Collection Management & Preservation Department is to manage and care for Dartmouth Libraries’ collections with competency and integrity. Working across various units and physical locations, we ensure the long-term preservation of and accessibility to the Libraries’ circulating, special, and digital collections, as well as the College’s vast holdings of institutional paper records. Through meticulous stewardship and specialized expertise, our staff commits to accuracy in maintaining the Libraries’ diverse collections. Our collaborative approach to teamwork paired with our dedication to collections care and maintenance enables us to support academic excellence, research needs, and cross-campus operations effectively.
Records Management
Records Management's purpose is to fulfill the charge from the Dartmouth Board Records Management is responsible for the maintenance, control, and preservation of the Institution’s records. We help accelerate advanced research and amplify Dartmouth's impact across the scholarly ecosystem by managing the Institution's records and assuring that primary source research materials will be available in the Archives for future researchers.
Teaching and Learning
Teaching and Learning advances the Libraries’ role in Dartmouth’s educational mission through campus-wide partnerships that foster critical information literacy and lifelong learning. We sustain a culture of continuous learning and innovation within the Libraries through our comprehensive staff development programming.
Scholarly Communication Program
Scholarly Communication fits primarily with the Libraries' strategic pillars: accelerating research and amplifying Dartmouth's impact. We do this through our promotion of open access programs and education about copyright and related matters.
Book Arts Workshop
Learn about books with historical and contemporary mediums, including letterpress printing, digital design and hand-bookbinding. From creating sturdy journals or pop-up books, to printing images from low relief objects, students are encouraged to utilize the Workshop’s bindery, presses, and wide selection of metal and wood typefaces to bring life to their own projects. We offer faculty and curricular support as well.
Biomedical Libraries
We advance education, research, scholarship, and patient care by providing essential resources, services, spaces, and educational programs to the Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth Health, and the Dartmouth College communities. The Health Sciences and Biomedical Libraries consist of the Dana Biomedical Library on the Dartmouth's Hanover campus and the Matthews-Fuller Health Sciences Library (MFHSL) at the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) in Lebanon.
Acquisitions Services
The Acquisitions and Collection Development Department manages the procedures and policies around acquiring information resources in all formats to support current teaching and research at Dartmouth. Acquisitions leads the purchasing, licensing, and management of information resources needed for teaching and research across the campus. Acquisitions facilitates the strategic and holistic development of the general collections. The department stays abreast of and deploys new acquisition models to provide access to the Dartmouth community and beyond.
Access & Delivery Services
Access Services includes the areas of Circulation, Reserves, Interlibrary Loan, Facilities, Shipping and Receiving. Supported by strong customer service, we facilitate access to local and distributed physical and electronic resources. In addition, we provide facilities and space management for the Dartmouth Libraries.
Feldberg Business & Engineering Library
Feldberg Business & Engineering Library serves the faculty, students and staff of the Tuck School of Business, the Thayer School of Engineering and Dartmouth College.
Matthews-Fuller Health Sciences Library
Matthews-Fuller Health Sciences Library—one of two locations of the Dartmouth Biomedical Libraries—is located on the 5th floor of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (two floors up from the Main Entrance Information Desk).
Evans Map Room
Located on the second floor of Berry in the Baker-Berry Library, the Evans Map Room houses more than 189,000 sheet maps, the latest mapping software, and an extensive collection of atlases, books, journals, globes, and photos.
Sherman Art Library
Sherman Art Library supports the departments of art history and studio art and the Hood Museum of Art with print and digital resources, exhibition catalogs, image databases, and a special collection of rare items.
Dana Biomedical Library
Dana Biomedical Library—one of two locations of the Dartmouth Biomedical Libraries—support the disciplines of health and life sciences and is located on the third floor of 37 Dewey Field Road.
Baker-Berry Library
At the heart of campus, Baker-Berry Library is home to the humanities and social sciences collections, classrooms, study and social spaces, several academic centers, a letterpress studio, and more.
Rauner Special Collections Library
We provide efficient, convenient, and hands-on access to world-class collections of manuscripts, rare books, and archival documents that support the curriculum, high-level research, and idle curiosity while managing the lifecycle of all college records.
Jones Media Center
The Jones Media Center sparks creativity by providing facilities, technology, collections, and expertise for researching, viewing, and producing a wide range of media. We inspire our users to engage with creative technology in order to advance digital scholarship. We meet users where they are, and engage with them as learners and as producers of knowledge.
Research & Learning Librarian for the Visual Arts