Academic Commons at Goddard Library
Named for Dr. Robert Goddard, the Clark physicist who invented the rocket technology that made space travel possible, Goddard Library has been transformed into the Academic Commons at Goddard Library. The project has reshaped the University's main library into a cutting-edge facility for research, teaching and learning by centralizing academic and research support services for students and faculty. The project included a complete renovation and redesign of existing space, including the addition of 11,000 square feet achieved by enclosing the plaza level. The Academic Commons continues to provide traditional and electronic resources, including Goddard's collection of more than 375,000 volumes, 275,000 monographs, subscriptions to 1,500 periodicals, full Internet access, nearly 50 subject-specific databases and a public online catalog available 24-hours a day. The Academic Commons also continues to house Archives and Special Collections.
Guy Burnham Map and Aerial Photography Library
Founded in 1921, the Map Library is an active cartographic information center containing over 200,000 maps and aerial photographs, as well as atlases, journals, globes, map reference materials, tourist information, and U.S. government maps, available thanks to Clark's depository agreement with the U.S. Government Printing Office. The library is located in the Geography Building.
Carlson Science Library
The Carlson Science Library, a branch of Goddard Library, serves the disciplines of biology, chemistry, and physics, providing full Internet access and selected science journals, monographs, and subject-specific databases. The Library is located in the Sackler Sciences Center.
Jeanne X. Kasperson Research Library
The Jeanne X. Kasperson Research Library offers one of the most extensive research collections in North America on environmental risk and hazards, and human dimensions of global environmental change. In addition we have holdings on the subjects of international development, technology, water and energy policy. The collection includes books, monographs, databases, journals, newsletters, government documents and technical reports on hazards and global environmental change. The cataloged collection can be accessed through Clark University's Goddard Library Voyager system. The Library staff is happy to help you find relevant materials for your research papers, theses or dissertations.
Rose Library in Cohen-Lasry House
The Rose Library in Cohen-Lasry House holds the Diana Bartley Collection. Diana Bartley, a New York financial consultant, journalist, and book collector, donated her 1,800-volume collection to the Center. The Collection now contains approximately 3,500 books and materials on the Holocaust, many dating from 1933 to 1947. It was assembled over a ten-year period and continues to grow with acquisitions including registers of Jewish survivors of World War II, German foreign policy documents, allied military plans, artwork illustrating anti-Semitism and photographs taken during the liberation of Nazi concentration camps. The Collection covers Holocaust history, sociology, photography, memoirs, fiction, poetry, plays, psychology and religion. Many others have donated books to the Rose Library and there are increasing numbers of books relating to genocide in the twentieth century and the Armenian genocide. It will be kept intact permitting users to browse through the volumes of many different disciplines. View Rose Library Hours.
Traina Center Resource Library
Traina Center for the Arts features a Resource Library which houses the department's collection of 16mm & 35mm films, videos, DVD's, CD's, cassettes, records and slides. The library also features a number of Media Stations, slide viewers, VCR's, DVD players, CD players, computers, flatbed/slide scanners and a group study room.
Peace Studies Library
The Peace Studies Library, located in Room 201 of Jonas Clark Hall, houses many materials and resources that are useful to all students, especially those concentrating in Peace Studies. In addition to over 3,000 books on a great variety of topics ranging from Gandhi to Politics of War, there are over a hundred 100 videos and DVDs, as well as subscriptions to thirty journals and magazines.
Doing a research paper? Be sure to look in the file cabinets on specific topics ranging from Abortion to Youth Peace Building, countries, and dozens of peace and justice organizations. Books and videos are available to be checked out for up to one month at a time. The library is open most afternoons Monday through Friday, but specific hours change every semester. If you have questions concerning the Peace Studies Library, please call (508) 793-7663 to speak with a librarian or e-mail us.
Language Arts Resource Center
The Language Arts Resource Center houses a collection of materials that support foreign language learning and teaching: audiocassettes, CDs, CDROMs, videos, DVDs and software. There are audio booths, VCR and DVD stations and a computer station for CDROMs and software. The Language Arts Resource Center also receives via SCOLA (Satellite Communications for Learning) news broadcasts from around the world.
Worcester Consortium Libraries
As a member of the Colleges of Worcester Consortium, Clark students may use any of the eight academic consortium libraries.