Science-related materials are available in the Hatch Science Library. Music sound recordings, compact discs, cassettes, and scores can be found in the Robert Beckwith Music Library in Gibson Hall. A portion of the art book collection resides in the Pierce Art Library in the Visual Arts Center. The Language Media Center in Sills Hall contains a new multimedia laboratory for foreign language instruction and a large collection of foreign language films on video cassette. Students may also watch live foreign language satellite television programming in the Language Media Center.
Videocassettes are available in all libraries.
The Library's online catalog provides access to collections by author, title, subject, keyword, and call number for holdings in Hawthorne-Longfellow, all branch libraries and the Russwurm and Women's Resource Centers. Beginning in the fall of 1998, it will be possible to simultaneously search the library catalogs of Bowdoin, Colby and Bates Colleges. A small percentage of the oldest library materials, including most Special Collections items, are listed only in the card catalog. Instructions for connecting to the Library Gateway from computers outside the library are available at Hawthorne-Longfellow. In order to facilitate student research, the library is continually updating and expanding its electronic resources and evaluating and identifying useful Internet sites.