Hours for Finals

Shain Library will be open 24 hours a day starting on Wednesday, December 15th through 2:00am Tuesday (actually super early Wednesday) night December 20th.

More details on the hours page.

Network speed needs and Mac vs. PC: lessons from the MISO survey

If you were on campus last spring, or the spring of 2009 or 2006, you may have received an invitation to participate in a survey on your opinions of library and information services at the College. The MISO Survey (no, nothing to do with the soup) is a national survey, coordinated by Bryn Mawr College, of liberal arts colleges with merged libraries and IT departments. Our participation in this survey helps us determine which services are most important and valuable to our campus community, which areas need work, and how we compare to our peer institutions.

Among the things we found out from the most recent MISO survey: the extra wireless coverage on campus is much appreciated, but everyone would like faster network speeds; "overall library service" gets high satisfaction scores; library instruction has become more important both to students and faculty; and students with Macs now outnumber students with PCs on campus.

You can now view some of the survey highlights at the new Connecticut College MISO Survey Results site (https://sites.google.com/a/conncoll.edu/cc-miso-survey-results/). And if you participated in any of our MISO surveys, thank you so much for your help!

Student Curated Exhibit in the Charles Chu Asian Art Reading Room

Students in the Spring 2011 Modern Chinese Art class curated an exhibit currently on display in the Chu Room: "Celebration: 100 Years of Art and Creativity. Chinese Paintings from the Chu-Griffis Collection."

Check out the project website to learn more.

Shain Library Hours for Finals

Open 24 Hours
Thursday, May 12th (8am) through
Monday, May 16th (closing at 2am on Tues. 5/17)


Tuesday, May 17th 8:00am - 2:00am


Wednesday, May 18th 8:00am - 5:00pm


Thurs & Fri, May 19th & 20th 8:30am - 5:00pm

Bike sharing at the library!

Shain Library and Spokespeople, Connecticut College's student-run bicycle collective, have just launched a new bike-sharing service. Any student can check out a bike at the Shain circulation desk to use for the day. Spokespeople keeps them maintained and provides helmets. In the first two weeks of the service, bikes have already been borrowed 59 times. If you stop by the library, you'll see the bikes (dubbed "CC Cruisers") at the rack by the main entrance. Come and enjoy a ride in the spring weather!

New Chu Room Exhibit

A new Chinese art exhibition, entitled “Demolition: Second History”, featuring works by Zhang Dali, one of the most well-known artists in contemporary China, will open on April 18, Monday, at 4:00 PM in the Chu Reading Room. Presentations and panel discussions on the artist will be held right after the opening ceremony 4:00-6:00 PM. All are welcome to participate.

New Library Exhibit

From Academy Girls to College Women: The Path to 1911

The new exhibit is part of the College's centennial celebration. Check it out on the main floor of Shain Library through June 10th

Hours for Spring Break

Spring Break hours for Shain Library

Friday, March 11: 8:00am – 5:00pm
March 12- 26:
Mondays-Fridays: 8:30am – 4:00pm
Saturdays: 10:00am – 2:00pm
Sundays: Closed
Sunday, March 27: 1:00pm-2:00am
Monday, March 28: Regular Hours Resume

Creating a New Library: The First Books at Connecticut College

An exhibit in the Charles E. Shain Library from January 18th - March 18th, 2011

A virtual "New Books" shelf

If you're a student or a faculty member, you may have already used the library's LibGuides -- online guides to library resources for particular subjects and classes. We have guides for everything from citation style (always a popular question at the end of the semester!) to neuroscience. But did you know you can also use our guides to keep track of new books in the collection?

The "New Books and Media" guide automatically displays the latest books and media materials added to the catalog. Use the pull-down menu on the "Books" tab to display a list of subjects so you can see what's new in your areas of interest.

If you use an RSS feed reader (such as Google Reader or Bloglines) to keep up with frequently-updated websites, you can also grab RSS feeds for new books from our guide -- just go to the page for the subject you're interested in, click the "View RSS feed" link at the bottom, and copy the URL of the page that pops up into your feed reader.

If you have any questions about new books (or anything else library-related), remember: you can always ask a librarian!