Dean of the College Bev Nagel and Carleton College are pleased to name Brad Schaffner to the position of College Librarian.  Brad is currently head of the Slavic Division at Widener Library, Harvard University.  Prior to working at Harvard, Brad served at the University of Kansas Libraries as Head of the Library Slavic Department, and Head of International Programs, and Coordinator of Collection Development.

The library has just subscribed to a collection of 12,000 online videos called Academic Video Online. It contains films and documentaries of all kinds across all academic subjects, from political campaign commercials to anthropological field recordings, from full opera performances to historical newsreels, from psychological counseling session demonstrations to filmed plays, and everything else in between. You can access it directly at http://vasc.alexanderstreet.com.ezproxy.carleton.edu/ or just look for Academic Video Online among the databases listings on the library's website.

Deadlines are approaching! Are you organized? On Friday of Week 7 (2/17), join librarians and ATs in the Weitz Center Idea Lab for drop-in help and workshops on organizing your research.

At long last, instructions on how to print to campus computers from your very own laptop. No more hunting or waiting for a lab computer just so that you can print out your paper before class!

Help the library improve our website and catalog!

The library is looking for volunteers to do a short (less than 30 minutes) user test of our catalog and website.  Email Ann (azawisto) if you're interested.

After consultation with faculty in the Psychology department and with the Reference and Instruction librarians, Gould Library has switched from the ProQuest platform for the databases PsycINFO and PsycARTICLES to the EBSCO platform

The slowness problem has been resolved.  Our apologies for any inconvenience.  Please come to the Research/IT desk if you are having any other problems with e-reserves

All recorded information on archival records at Carleton now online for the public to search, view and request. 

The open access Carleton Faculty & Staff Scholarship Collection contains a selection of journal articles published by Carleton faculty and staff since 2009.  Each article was submitted by the author/s to the Dean of the College for recognition during the annual Faculty & Staff Scholarship Celebration.  The collection represents the beginning of what is often referred to as an “institutional repository” or IR, an online archive where colleges and universities collect and showcase digital versions of the work of the faculty, staff, and sometimes students.  For more information, contact Eric Hillemann, College Archivist or Nat Wilson, Digital Archivist.

The library has implemented some big changes on our website, and with our Bridge catalog.  We'd love to hear what you think of them!

Leave us your thoughts, suggestions, concerns and ideas on our Bridge feedback form.

(The form mentions both Carleton and St. Olaf libraries because the Bridge consortium worked on both the new Bridge catalog interface, and our updates to the website.  Please feel free to enter your thoughts on anything Carleton library related).

Keep up to date with changes at the library, special events, study breaks, and other generally fun and cool stuff by "liking" Gould Library on Facebook.

ContentDM (the system that hosts most of Carleton's digital collections) has been updated. Please let us know if you see any issues with the service!