Sawyer Library , situated between Baxter Hall and Stetson Hall, is the main library at Williams College. Sawyer Library is a designated Federal Depository Library and houses the Government Documents collection. Williams College Archives and Special Collections , housed in Stetson Hall, serves as the central repository for historical material about Williams. A variety of Indexes and Databases are available to search the periodical literature. These resources are accessible from the library web page and are available from any networked computers on campus.
Remote access is available through the college's proxy server .
Books are subject to recall after 14 days. Journals do not circulate, but arrangements may be made to have articles copied. Loan periods for other materials vary. See the Loan Periods for details. To insure immediate access to items on loan, it is the library's policy to give out the name of a faculty or student who has borrowed a particular item.