Five Colleges, Incorporated: Library Locations

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Getting There
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Main Libraries
Amherst College: Robert Frost Library
Hampshire College: Harold F. Johnson Library Center
Mount Holyoke College: Williston, Miles-Smith, and Dwight complex
Smith College: Smith College Libraries
University of Massachusetts Amherst: W.E.B. Du Bois Library

Branch Libraries and Special Collections
Amherst College
The Vincent Morgan Music Library, on the top level of the Arms Music Center, contains an extensive collection of records, scores, and books on music. The Music Library lends circulating material to Five College borrowers.

The Keefe Science Library, located on the third ßoor of the Merrill Science Center, houses most of Amherst’s current collection in physics, chemistry, astronomy, biology, and psychology. Five College patrons may borrow circulating material.

The Olds Mathematics Library is on the fifth floor of the Seeley G. Mudd Building. Five College borrowers may take books out only through interlibrary loan.

Mount Holyoke College
The Pratt Music and Dance Library, located on the lower level of the Pratt building, houses a collection of audio resources, scores, and materials about music and dance. Materials may be requested through Five College Delivery.

Smith College
Smith supports particularly strong special collections and branch libraries. Rare book, manuscript and archival collecting focuses on women’s history, women’s organizations, English and American literature, the history of printing and book arts, the history of science and other areas. These items generally do not circulate at all; some may be available for reproduction.

Three major subject-oriented branch libraries—visual arts, performing arts, the sciences and engineering, and a nonprint media collection—are open to Five College patrons; speciÞc hours and direct borrowing privileges vary. Please refer to individual libraries and collections for further information.

UMass Amherst
Integrated Sciences and Engineering Library: Lederle Graduate Research Center (Low-rise), second floor, room A273, 545-1370. Materials in agricultural sciences, astronomy, biochemistry, biology (except medicine and health), chemistry, computer science, all fields of engineering, food science, geosciences, mathematics and statistics, physics, polymer science, and wood technology. Please call ahead for hours.

Music Reserve Lab: 149A Fine Arts Center, 577-2711. Music reserve materials. Semester hours are Monday-Thursday 9 a.m.-9 p.m., Friday 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

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