🎉Improvements we've made🎉

Better Wi-Fi

During Winter Break 2023/24, the IT department improved our building by installing more Wi-Fi coverage! For further details on this install, please reach out to helpdesk@sarahlawrence.edu .

Booking Study Rooms

For some time, we have provided 3 study rooms that were bookable in advance. In Fall 2023, we upgraded to a more advanced booking system through Skedda that happened to provide us with 2 more bookable spaces! A few commuter students expressed frustration at a lack of bookable study rooms, but the link to book a study room has existed since 2015 on our library homepage. (See screenshot below.)

System improvements and policies:

• Skedda provides us with 2 more spaces to book, giving us a total of 5 rooms!

• Skedda allows you to see all 5 rooms at once, and what their availability is.

• Study rooms are for SLC students ONLY.

  • You can only use your SLC email address to log-in.

• Though patrons can use these rooms without booking, you can be kicked out by someone who already has a booking. Please ask for assistance at the Information Desk if a patron doesn’t abide by this.

• Rooms can be booked up to 6 hours per day.

Archives

Some have mentioned that you would appreciate more information about how to access and use our Archives. Here are a few notes from our Archives department.

• Anyone looking to explore a little bit of college history at their leisure will enjoy the Student Publications exhibit, which is currently on display in the library in the Calder Room close to the Learning Commons. The exhibition, co-curated by Christina Kasman and Lillian Minor ’24, also hosts a Student Publications Reading nook that has yearbooks and literary publications available for browsing whenever the library is open.

• Student Life is critical to telling the story of the college, and we actively encourage students to donate materials that record their student experience to the archives. Students may donate individual photos or documents digitally though the Student Life Preservation Project website: https://slcstudentlifeproject.omeka.net/

• Students may book an archives research appointment with Christina here: https://calendly.com/christinakasman.    

• Any archives-related questions not covered by the above? Please reach out to Christina at archives@sarahlawrence.edu.  

Academic Workshops

We love your interest in deepening your research skills in addition to the ‘fun’ things we provide! Though, as librarians, we feel that workshops through our Research Services and Digital Humanities are fun, too. Who wouldn’t? These span a broad range of topics/skills, and are available throughout every semester. Upcoming workshops are always listed in the Corq app as well as Grypon Link, which also posts to the SLC events emails. The full list of our more recent previous and current workshops are listed here for Research Services, and here for Digital Humanities.

1 Credit Class: Interrogating the Information Ecosystem

For the last two semesters, our research librarians have been teaching a one-credit course called Interrogating the Information Ecosystem. The course explores how to find, evaluate, interrogate, and understand the context of information. It combines theory and practice, and the skills are applicable across all fields and information types. We hope to see you in the class next year

Yonkers Public Library Partnership

For the last three semesters, we have partnered with the Yonkers Public Library for a library card sign-up event. We look forward to continuing and growing this partnership.

Podcast Upgrade & Requests

The Sarah Lawrence College Podcast (formerly The Sarah Lawrence College LIBRARY Podcast) explores the lives, careers, ambitions, and passions of the Sarah Lawrence College community. Host Tim Kail interviews faculty, staff, students, and alum with a signature style that's as in-depth as it is welcoming. In the 2023 survey, we asked who you would like to hear from as a guest on the podcast.  Among the answers were professors, students, staff, administrators, and alums. The following people have appeared on episodes. 

We will, of course, continue to provide excellent content and take requests whenever possible! 

FACULTY

• Library Podcast - EP23 - Melissa Frazier - 11/4/22

• Library Podcast - EP27 - Margarita Fajardo - 12/2/22

• Library Podcast - EP35 - Victoria Redel - 3/3/23

• Library Podcast - EP36 - Matthew Ellis - 3/10/23

• Library Podcast - EP41 - Roy Ben-Shai - 4/14/23

• Library Podcast - EP44 - Gillian Adler - 5/5/23

• Library Podcast - EP50 - Jamee Moudud - 10/6/23

• Library Podcast - EP53 - Joe Forte - 10/27/23

• Library Podcast - EP54 - Jean Shin - 11/7/23

• Library Podcast - EP55 - Maia Pujara - 11/17/23

• Library Podcast - EP56 - Daniel McCarthy - 11/17/23

• Library Podcast - EP59 - Kate Zambreno - 12/8/23

• Library Podcast - EP60 - April Mosolino - 12/15/23

• Sarah Lawrence College Podcast - EP3 - Brian Emery - 2/9/24

• Sarah Lawrence College Podcast - EP8 - Liv Baker - 3/15/24

STUDENTS

• Library Podcast - EP9 - Justine Anthony - 4/26/22

• Library Podcast - EP30 - Gabriella Martinez Part 1 - 1/27/23

• Library Podcast - EP31 - Gabriella Martinez Part 2 - 2/3/23

• Library Podcast - EP40 - Emma Paterson - 4/7/23

• Library Podcast - EP47 - Gabriella Martinez Part 3 - 9/15/23

• Sarah Lawrence College Podcast - EP1 - Daria Sommers - 1/26/24

• Sarah Lawrence College Podcast - EP4 - Ishika Joshi - 2/16/24

• Sarah Lawrence College Podcast - EP7 - Fronia Kemper - 3/8/24

ALUM & ARCHIVES

• Library Podcast - EP33 - Leda Canino - 2/17/23

• Library Podcast - EP53 - Joe Forte - 10/27/23

ADMIN

• Library Podcast - EP11 - Rachelle Rumph - 5/10/22

• Library Podcast - EP25 - Rachelle Rumph Returns - 11/18/22

• Library Podcast - EP42 - Time Management with Rachelle Rumph - 4/21/22

• Library Podcast - EP46 - Cristle Collins Judd - 9/8/23

• Library Podcast - EP57 - Procrastination with Rachelle Rumph - 11/24/23

• Library Podcast - EP58 - Kim Ferguson - 12/1/23

• Sarah Lawrence College Podcast - EP2 - Kanwal Singh - 2/2/24

• Sarah Lawrence College Podcast - EP6 - Kevin McKenna - 3/1/24

STAFF

• Library Podcast - EP1 - Introduction - 2/25/22

• Library Podcast - EP2 - Mustafa Sakarya - 3/22/22

• Library Podcast - EP3 - Rachel Leff - 3/22/22

• Library Podcast - EP4 - Emily Johnson - 3/22/22

• Library Podcast - EP5 - Mustafa Sakarya Part 2 - 3/29/22

• Library Podcast - EP6 - Julie Dougherty - 4/5/22

• Library Podcast - EP7 - Christina Kasman - 4/12/22

• Library Podcast - EP8 - Yonkers Public Library Event - 4/19/22

• Library Podcast - EP10 - Angelica Freitas - 5/3/22

• Library Podcast - EP12 - Geoffrey Danisher - 5/17/22

• Library Podcast - EP13 - Tim Kail - 5/24/22

• Library Podcast - EP14 - The Party - 8/31/22

• Library Podcast - EP15 - Library Takeover - 9/9/22

• Library Podcast - EP16 - A Tour - 9/16/22

• Library Podcast - EP17 - Claudia Berger - 9/23/22

• Library Podcast - EP18 - Two Strangers - 9/30/22

• Library Podcast - EP19 - Danielle Wright - 10/7/22

• Library Podcast - EP20 - Christi Osterday - 10/14/22

• Library Podcast - EP21 - We Hold The Light - 10/21/22

• Library Podcast - EP22 - Emily Goucher - 10/28/22

• Library Podcast - EP24 - Patricia Pasquale - 11/11/22

• Library Podcast - EP26 - 3D Printer - 11/25/22

• Library Podcast - EP28 - How To Podcast - 12/9/22

• Library Podcast - EP29 - Reflecting On 2022 - 12/16/22

• Announcement! 1/20/23

• Library Podcast - EP32 - Salem Hunter - 2/10/23

• Library Podcast - EP34 - Christina Kasman - 2/24/22

• Library Podcast - EP37 - Mo Gallagher - 3/17/22

• Library Podcast - EP38 - Mustafa's Year - 3/24/22

• Library Podcast - EP39 - Angelica Returns - 3/31/22

• Library Podcast - EP43 - Mia Bruner - 4/28/23

• Library Podcast - EP45 - Reflections With Tim & Mustafa - 5/12/23

• Announcement! - 9/7/23

• Library Podcast - EP49 - Library Business w/Tim & Mustafa - 9/29/23

• Library Podcast - EP52 - Desmond Luck - 10/20/23

• A Special Announcement - Must Listen! - 12/22/23

• Sarah Lawrence College Podcast - EP5 - Sean Jameson - 2/23/24

Noise Level Zones

Several of you mentioned the need for a quiet place to study, while others expressed a need for space to socialize and study together. In response to this, we have designated each level of the library to pose a different set of noise level expectations.

Upper Level : Silent Zone

Expectations:

• There will be no conversations or disruptions of any kind.

• Exceptions where conversation is necessary & sound will bleed through:

  • Information & Circulation Desks downstairs

  • Study spaces downstairs by the Learning Commons

  • Study Rooms

  • The Pillow Room

• Food is only allowed near vending machines in the Lower Level

Main Level : Quiet Zone

Expectations: 

• Any conversations will be conducted in muted voices

• Exceptions where louder conversation is often necessary:

  • Circulation & Information Desks

• Food is only allowed near vending machines in the Lower Level

Lower Level : Talking Zone

Expectations: 

• Voices at average talking volume

• Food is only allowed near vending machines