Access Services includes the areas of Circulation, Reserves, Interlibrary Loan, Facilities, Shipping and Receiving. Supported by strong customer service, we facilitate access to local and distributed physical and electronic resources. In addition, we provide facilities and space management for the Dartmouth Libraries.

The Acquisitions and Collection Development Department manages the procedures and policies around acquiring information resources in all formats to support current teaching and research at Dartmouth. Acquisitions leads the purchasing, licensing, and management of information resources needed for teaching and research across the campus. Acquisitions facilitates the strategic and holistic development of the general collections. The department stays abreast of and deploys new acquisition models to provide access to the Dartmouth community and beyond.

Learn about books with historical and contemporary mediums, including letterpress printing, digital design and hand-bookbinding. From creating sturdy journals or pop-up books, to printing images from low relief objects, students are encouraged to utilize the Workshop’s bindery, presses, and wide selection of metal and wood typefaces to bring life to their own projects. We offer faculty and curricular support as well.

Metadata Services creates and manages metadata to describe materials in Dartmouth Libraries' collections in support of the Libraries' Strategic Framework.

The mission of Collection Management & Preservation Department is to manage and care for Dartmouth Libraries’ collections with competency and integrity. Working across various units and physical locations, we ensure the long-term preservation of and accessibility to the Libraries’ circulating, special, and digital collections, as well as the College’s vast holdings of institutional paper records. Through meticulous stewardship and specialized expertise, our staff commits to accuracy in maintaining the Libraries’ diverse collections. Our collaborative approach to teamwork paired with our dedication to collections care and maintenance enables us to support academic excellence, research needs, and cross-campus operations effectively. 

Digital by Dartmouth Libraries (DxDL) provides free, digital access to nearly three hundred thousand items from our collections — from classical texts to medieval manuscripts to scientific accounts to audiovisual materials. We work collaboratively across the Libraries, Dartmouth, and other communities to develop unique digital collections.

The Digital Library Technologies Group is a team of technologists, programmers, and project managers with expertise in web development, user experience, library discovery systems, accessibility, hardware, software development, and DevOps. We partner with colleagues across the Libraries and Dartmouth to plan, build, procure, and or implement technology solutions that are sustainable and support the Libraries’ academic mission and strategic goals.

Digital Scholarly Engagement includes Digital by Dartmouth Libraries, the Evans Map Room, and the Jones Media Center. Our teams work collaboratively across the Libraries, Dartmouth, and other communities to develop unique digital collections, to inspire users with creative media technology, and to engage with physical and digital map collections.

Feldberg Business & Engineering Library serves the faculty, students and staff of the Tuck School of Business, the Thayer School of Engineering and Dartmouth College.

The Jones Media Center sparks creativity by providing facilities, technology, collections, and expertise for researching, viewing, and producing a wide range of media. We inspire our users to engage with creative technology in order to advance digital scholarship. We meet users where they are, and engage with them as learners and as producers of knowledge.

The Dartmouth Libraries Administration team works together with colleagues across the libraries and Dartmouth to champion the Libraries and support library staff.

We advance education, research, scholarship, and patient care for the Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC), and Dartmouth communities. The Medical and Health Sciences Libraries include Dana Biomedical Library on Dartmouth's campus in Hanover and Matthews-Fuller Health Sciences Library at DHMC in Lebanon.

We provide efficient, convenient, and hands-on access to world-class collections of manuscripts, rare books, and archival documents that  support the curriculum, high-level research, and idle curiosity while managing the lifecycle of all college records.

Records Management's purpose is to fulfill the charge from the Dartmouth Board of Trustees. Records Management is responsible for the maintenance, control, and preservation of the Institution's records.

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We advance research in the arts, humanities, social sciences, STEM, and interdisciplinary studies by supporting faculty and students.

Research Data Services is dedicated to supporting data-intensive and computational research, teaching, and learning across the institution. Our team offers specialized expertise in all aspects of data management, from developing data management plans for sponsored projects to facilitating access to public data repositories. We provide comprehensive support for computational scholarship and data science, including project scoping, data wrangling, analysis, modeling, and visualization. Additionally, we license and host datasets for Dartmouth, and offer advanced tools and support for text analysis, bibliometrics, and more. As the library’s unofficial AI team, we also bring specialized knowledge in artificial intelligence to enhance research and data-driven initiatives.

Research Facilitation partners with researchers across disciplines to support the entire research lifecycle—from project inception to publication and beyond. We provide expert guidance on data management, scholarly communication, and data science, helping faculty, students, and staff navigate the complexities of modern research. 

Our team also offers guidance on open access publishing, copyright, and evolving public access requirements to amplify the impact of Dartmouth’s scholarly work. With specialized expertise in managing, analyzing, sharing, and measuring research outputs, we serve as a campus-wide resource for reproducible, transparent, and accessible research. By integrating data services with scholarly communication, we are better equipped to advance research excellence and expand the reach of Dartmouth’s scholarship.

Scholarly Communication fits primarily with the Libraries' strategic pillars: accelerating research and amplifying Dartmouth's impact. We do this through our promotion of open access programs and education about copyright and related matters.

Teaching and Learning advances the Libraries’ role in Dartmouth’s educational mission through campus-wide partnerships that foster critical information literacy and lifelong learning. We sustain a culture of continuous learning and innovation within the Libraries through our comprehensive staff development programming.