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01/28/2026

Need a textbook for a study session?

The Library provides required textbooks for every class, on reserve behind the Circulation desk in H-L, Pierce, and Hatch.

Look them up in Compass to see if yours is available and which library it's located in, then ask at the desk to borrow it for up to 3 hours.

11/10/2025

Book launch event THURSDAY at Hawthorne-Longfellow Library!

Please join us as we celebrate Professor Nelson's new book, "Yet Another Costume Party Debacle: Why Racial Ignorance Persists on Elite College Campuses." Professor Nelson will be joined in conversation with Brian Purnell, Associate Professor of Africana Studies and History. Refreshments will be served. Open to the public.

11/07/2025

Today at 12:30! November Audubon Page-Turning with Scientific Illustrator and Educator Gretchen Kai Halpert. Special Collections & Archives Reading Room, Third Floor, Hawthorne-Longfellow Library

10/23/2025

Album launch event TODAY at Hawthorne-Longfellow Library!

Listen to Kate Campbell Strauss, Director of Jazz Ensembles and Lecturer in Music at Bowdoin College, discuss their new album, "Give Way", alongside collaborator Emily Mikesell.

Open to the public. See you there!

10/21/2025

Album launch event THURSDAY at Hawthorne-Longfellow Library!

Listen to Kate Campbell Strauss, Director of Jazz Ensembles and Lecturer in Music at Bowdoin College, discuss their new album, "Give Way", alongside collaborator Emily Mikesell.

Open to the public. See you there!

10/20/2025

Open Access Week is October 20-26th 2025, themed "Who owns our knowledge?". Bowdoin Library supports open access publishing options for researchers and scholars at Bowdoin. ⁠
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Link in bio to our LibGuide with more resources for open access and no-fee publishing.⁠
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Started in 2008 by SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) and the international open access community, the week highlights the benefits of removing paywalls and sharing knowledge globally.

10/03/2025

Have you seen the recently installed 2025-26 Student Voices Collection at H-L Library? Student curator Kanene Nwokeji '26 has chosen a multitude of thoughtful and introspective titles on the theme Multiracialism, ranging from memoirs and children's books to cookbooks and superheroes.

Now available in the Collection Highlights section on H-L first floor.

09/17/2025

Please join us in celebration of Professor Morrison's new book entitled Merchants of Knowledge: Intellectual Exchange in the Ottoman Empire and Renaissance Europe. Professor Morrison will be in conversation with Professors Crystal Hall and Marilyn Reizbaum. 4:30pm, Nixon Lounge, 3rd floor, H-L Library. Open to the public. Refreshments will be served.

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