Holiday & Winter Break Hours

Holiday Hours:
December 18 : 8 am – 8 pm

December 19 – 20 : Closed

December 21 – 22 : 8:30 am – 4:45 pm
December 23 – January 3 : Closed

Winter Break Hours:

January 4 -19

Monday-Thursday 8:30 am - 4:45 pm

Friday 8:30 am – 4 pm (closed weekends)

Spring Semester Begins:

Wednesday, January 20 : Normal Hours Resume

Library Hours - 24/5 in December

The Library will be open 24/5 during December! Starting on Tuesday, December 1, the Library will be open 24 hours, five days a week.

The Library’s hours will be:

Sunday noon – Friday at midnight
Saturday 11am – 8pm

Not all services will be available at all hours.

Group Study Rooms
We offer group study rooms (Library 2nd floor – rooms 2001A and B), which can be reserved through the campus RMS at:
https://www.purchase.edu/rms/RMS_Calendars/Public_Calendar.aspx

Quiet Zone
We also offer a Quiet Zone, in the Periodicals section on the main floor. While the library staff will do its best to reinforce this policy, the success of this area depends on the cooperation of patrons.

We heard your requests!
The 24/5 program is in response to student requests for longer hours during the last part of the semester. This semester is a pilot program, so we’ll see how popular it is and how it goes before deciding what to do in future semesters. Let us know what you think!

Purchase College Library
Presents

LIVE MUSIC @ The LIB!

Student Performances

Friday, December 4, 6-7 pm

Come and enjoy a little night music.

Sponsored by Friends of the Library (FOL)

Library Hours for Thanksgiving Break

Wednesday, November 25: 8:00am – 2:00pm

Thursday, November 26 (Thanksgiving Day): Closed

Friday, November 27: Closed

Saturday, November 28: Closed

Sunday, November 29: 6:00pm – 2:00am

See Regular Hours

New Database Trials

Go to the Databases on Trial page to access the following:

ProQuest Sociology

Access to the full-text of more than 180 journals in sociology and social work. This collection provides full-text coverage of many core titles included in Sociological Abstracts and Social Services Abstracts.
[Trial ends November 28, 2009.]

MLA International Bibliography

Provides access to more than two million bibliographic citations to journal articles, books, dissertations, and scholarly Web sites. It indexes materials from 1926 to the present in academic disciplines such as language, literature, folklore, linguistics, literary theory and criticism, and the dramatic arts.
[Trial ends November 21, 2009.]

Art Image Gallery

A rich digital resource of art images and related multimedia gathered from the collections of distinguished museums around the world.
[Trial ends November 30, 2009.]

Art Full Text

Brings researchers the complete text of articles cover to cover from more than 250 important art periodicals, and abstracts and indexing of articles from more than 500. The database encompasses of the gamut of art specialties--architecture to video, folk art to photography. International coverage includes the most important English-language periodicals worldwide, plus others published in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish. Besides articles,it also indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in the periodicals covered. Content stretches back over 25 years.
[Trial ends November 30, 2009.]

American History in Video
The collection allows students and researchers to analyze historical events, and their presentation over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries. This release now provides 1526 titles, with new videos from California Newsreel and PBS, equalling approximately 528 hours.
[Trial ends November 15, 2009.]

New Database Trials

Access Newspaper Archive
Access NewspaperARCHIVE contains tens of millions of searchable newspaper pages, dating as far back as the 1700s. It is your gateway to searching and reading historical newspapers online.
[Trial ends October 16, 2009.]

Oxford Journals
Over 200 academic and research journals covering a broad range of subject areas, two-thirds of which are published in collaboration with learned societies and other international organizations. See a full list of titles. [Trial ends November 23, 2009.]

For all the current trials, see: https://www.purchase.edu/Departments/Library/find/trials.aspx

New Database Trials

Go to the Databases on Trial page to access the following:

Cinema Image Gallery
Presents the history of movie-making through a wide range of high-quality images of films in production: directors working on-set with the stars, set, costume and production design as well as hair and make-up shots and rare behind-the scenes material. It also offers an extensive TV stills archive featuring classic and modern TV: comedies, dramas, series, TV movies, game shows and thousands of pictures of the stars of this medium. [Trial ends October 31, 2009.]

GREENR
An authoritative, intuitive resource that combines news, unique commentary, audio, video, primary source documents, images, conference reports, statistics and more in a Web-like experience designed to attract attention and foster participation. Includes interactive maps, country portals, and full text content from newspapers, journals, and magazines. [Trial ends December 31, 2009.]