Skip to main content

Today's Hours

A Bowdoin ID is required for entry to H-L, Hatch, Pierce, and Beckwith Libraries after 5:00 p.m.
View All Hours

Contact Us

Bowdoin College Library
3000 College Station
Brunswick, ME 04011-8421
207-725-3280
ask@bowdoin.libanswers.com

Staff Directory

Research Librarians by Subject

Visitor Information

Floor Directory

Floor Call Numbers Rooms & Services
Basement
  • A General Works
  • B Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
  • C Auxiliary Sciences of History
  • D History: General & Old World
  • E History: Americas
  • Bound Periodicals: A-Z
  • Electronic Classroom
  • Government Documents
  • Hubbard Stacks Entrance
  • Media Commons
  • Microforms
  • Mote Chinese Book Collection
  • Printers
  • Ramp Gallery
  • Rest Rooms (accessible)
  • Scanners/Photocopiers
  • Media Commons Classroom
  • Vending Café
Level 1  
  • Academic Technology & Consulting
  • Chandler Room
  • Children's Corner
  • Circulation Desk
  • Course Reserves
  • Current Periodicals & Newspapers
  • Display Books & Audiobooks
  • Interlibrary Loan
  • Library Administration
  • Research Librarians
Level 2
  • F History: Americas
  • G-GA Geography
  • GF-GV Anthropology, Folklore, Recreation
  • H-HX Social Sciences
  • (For GB-GC, GE see Hatch Science Library)
  • Exhibits
  • Faculty Research Room
  • Pierce Reading Room
  • Rest Rooms (accessible, gender inclusive)
  • Study Rooms
Level 3
  • J Political Science
  • K Law
  • L Education
  • M, MT Music (See also Music Library)
  • N Fine Arts (See also Art Library)
  • P-PE Languages
  • Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance Coll.
  • Nixon Lounge
  • Rest Room (women's only)
  • Special Collections & Archives
  • Study Rooms
  • Toll Picture Book Collection
  • Collections Management
HUBBARD HALL
Level 1
  • PF-PN Languages, Literature, Film
 
Level 2
  • PQ 1-PQ 6200 Literature
 
Level 3
  • PQ 6201-PR 6018 Literature
 
Level 4
  • PR 6019-PS 3562 Literature
 
Level 5
  • PS 3563-PZ Literature
  • R-RA History of Medicine, Public Health
  • RC 321-576 Psychiatry
  • TR, TT, TX Photography, Crafts, Home Economics
  • U-V Military, Naval Science
  • Z Bibliography, Library Science
  • (For Q-QR, RB-RZ, S, T-TP, TS see Hatch Science Library)


Level 6  
  • Abrahamson Reading Room
  • Rest Rooms
Call Number/Collection Location
Abrahamson Reading Room H-L 1
Academic Technology & Consulting Hubbard 6
Bound Periodicals: A-Z H-L Basement
Chandler Room H-L 1
Children's Corner H-L 1
Circulation Desk H-L 1
Course Reserves H-L 1
Current Periodicals & Newspapers H-L 1
Display Books & Audiobooks H-L 1
Electronic Classroom H-L Basement
Exhibits H-L 1, 2
Faculty Research Room H-L 2
Government Documents H-L Basement
Hubbard Stacks Entrance H-L Basement
Interlibrary Loan H-L 1
Library Administration H-L 1
Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance Coll. H-L 3
Media Commons H-L Basement
Microforms H-L Basement
Mote Chinese Book Collection H-L Basement
Nixon Lounge H-L 3
Pierce Reading Room H-L 2
Printers H-L Basement, 1
Ramp Gallery H-L Basement
Research Librarians H-L 1
Rest Room Locations Accessible: H-L Basement, 2; Gender Inclusive: H-L 2; Men's: H-L Basement, Hubbard 6; Women's: H-L Basement, 2, 3, Hubbard 6
Scanners/Photocopiers H-L Basement
Special Collections & Archives H-L 3
Study Rooms H-L 2, 3
Collections Management H-L 3
Media Commons Classroom H-L Basement
Toll Picture Book Collection H-L 3
Vending Café H-L Basement
Floor Call Number Collections & Services
Ground Floor  QL 750-Z
  • Journals
  • Seminar room H012
First Floor A-QL 750
  • Reference
  • folio A-Z
Second Floor
  • Seminar room H210
  • Classrooms H212 & H214

H-L = Hawthorne-Longfellow Library

Hubbard Hall = Entrance Through H-L Basement